Word: officio
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...Brien, who served in an ex officio capacity on the review’s Committee on Advising and Counseling, said that academic reform necessarily takes longer than adjustments in student life...
...outgoing president, Lawrence H. Summers, stepped back from the review last spring after professors exerted pressure on him to reduce his involvement in Faculty affairs. Until last spring, Summers served as an ex officio member of the General Education committee, which is charged with reforming the Core...
Until 1865, the entire Massachusetts state senate sat as ex officio members of the Board of Overseers. But after the end of the Civil War, alumni elected the Board members. Charles W. Eliot, Class of 1853, who later served as Harvard’s president, described that change as a “happy liberation” of the University from state control...
...e-mail.STRUGGLES OVER REVIEWKirby’s difficulty working under Summers came into sharp relief for some professors who served on the curricular review’s Committee on General Education. At the meetings of the committee in fall 2004, which Kirby chaired and Summers attended as an ex officio member, the president “mistreated” the dean, according to one professor in attendance.Summers was “extremely abrasive, challenging the dean’s authority, interrupting the dean, telling the dean he didn’t know how to run a meeting...
Summers initially served as an ex officio member of the curricular review’s Committee on General Education, which Kirby chaired, but the president ended his participation in the review after professors complained that Summers was exerting too much influence on their deliberations...