Word: acsr
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ACSR's function as an advisory panel on proxy resolutions is largely unnecessary, as it appears to be then its work on Harvard's South Africa policy represents an area in which the Committee conducts real research and provides a valuable counseling service to the University. However, the South Africa question is very complex and fraught with emotional reactions. It is also the most enduring and important moral and political dilemma to have faced the University in recent years. Under the circumstances, it is imperative that President Bok and the Corporation take every necessary step to insure the impartiality...
...closest things to a charter that the ACSR has is included in the Financial Report's 10-years review of the Committee. According to this Constitution ACSR members are supposed to be selected in the following way: students are elected or appointed by the student government mechanisms within the college the various graduate selected: alumni are nominated by the president of the Alumni Association: and professors are nominated by the president of the various faculties. The President has the final say in all alumni and faculty appointments...
These rules governing: ACSR selection appear to have been applied in a slipshod manner at least in recent years...
...four student members last year's ACSR reported that they had been appointed by the Dean's office of their respective graduate schools. In the case of the Business School students representative, the Dean by passed the recognized Students Association and approached the student directly, without even advertising to see in other students might be interested. While several of the graduate schools do not have formal "student government mechanisms," almost all have some kind of student association through which interested students should be solicited...
...guidelines for alumni selection to the ACSR appear to have been completely disregarded. Presumably, the ACSR charter specified that alumni nominations be made according to certain "criteria" in order to guarantee that alumni be fairly selected and represent the full range of perspective and experience existent among Harvard alumni...