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Mendelsohn said that the additional meetings would be an “ad hoc change” for just this year, not a permanent addition to the calendar...
...intersession and more. Even the busiest of Harvard students could use a forced time out. Meanwhile, this time would also allow for the College to offer optional, non-credit travel and research opportunities to students who so choose. Given the dearth of existing Harvard-sponsored international options, this ad hoc plan makes the most practical sense by far. Cost would be less of an issue right away, professors would have their vacations and students would have their term-time classes. In addition, on the administrative side, the focus can be on steadily increasing the number of unique opportunities, rather than...
...received permission to appoint more tenured Faculty draws up a short list of candidates, which is then whittled down by the recommendations of outside scholars and senior faculty. Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby must then approve of a tenure offer before the formation of an ad hoc committee chaired by President Summers. This committee makes its decisions in secret, and Summers reserves personal veto power in all cases...
...defeat. Rowan can cable his scoop back in time for the week's edition, but Birns' photographs can only travel by air. The two secure passage for the film on a 40-hour flight to San Francisco. LIFE holds the presses for 12 hours and sets up an ad hoc darkroom in the San Francisco airport. A charter pilot agrees to fly the wet negatives to fog-bound Chicago, where LIFE's photo editor has arrived from New York to pick them up. He selects the photos by using the window of his taxi as a light box and delivers...
...lecture in Ec 10, is the first and only woman to be brought through the tenure track in the Economics Department. While she considers her own experience in the tenure track “reasonably straightforward,” she feels that someone needs to be looking over ad hoc committee shoulders...