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...conclude that the ad hoc committee system has on the whole served the faculty well in bringing independent judgment to bear on the process of recommendation for appointments without limit of time. Ad hoc committees have served a variety of functions beyond that of reviewing single recommendations. They have recommended one among a series of appointments proposed by a department; they have developed a list of possible appointments and ranked them; they have reviewed the desirability of a department entering a new specialty; and they have pointed out gaps and deficiencies in departments. The use of ad hoc committees should...
...Committee recommends that greater use be made of more general ad hoc committees which might be convened periodically for a department, a group of departments, or related specialties in order to review policies and problems, discuss anticipated vacancies, canvass eligible candidates, and endorse a list of names for possible appointment. Such general ad hoc committees, not confined to the review of a single recommendation, could also elicit independent judgment about the needs of a whole area of knowledge, suggest expansion into areas in which talent is available, and recommend withdrawal from other areas. This procedure should reduce the total number...
Indirectly, the parietals decision demonstrates the value of including students on ad hoc subcommittees of standing Faculty committees. Such arrangements clearly increase communication between students and Faculty...
...administrative boards of the schools and different departments." In financial matters, the Administration formulates budgets and legislation while the Corporation approves them; on educational policy; the Faculty and Administration interchange in the initiating and ratifying roles; on permanent academic appointments, the departments make recommendations and the Administration setup ad hoc committees to ratify the appointments. In all cases, a system of restraints exists between the Administration and Faculty oligarchies on matters of initiation and ratification. The Corporation, despite its mythical reputation as an inconsiderate stumbling tyrant, never takes the initiative even in financial matters, but merely acts on budgets...
...also discussed a preliminary report of the findings of Dean Glimp's Ad Hoc Student-Faculty Committee on the Administrative Board, which was presented by the HUC members of that group. The report was not released for publication...