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President Bok's appointments to replace two of the other three mid term departures are in violation of the rotation schedule laid out in the ACSR charter. The Business School student who resigned from the Committee because he graduate should have been replaced this year by a student from the same school. Instead, a law student is taking this seat...
...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...
...guidelines governing selection to the ACSR specify that seats on the ACSR are always to be reserved for one student from the college and one professor from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The charter sets forth a system by which the other student and faculty positions are to be rotated among the various graduate schools. All ACSR appointments are for two-year terms...
However, President Bok has not followed the rotation schedule properly in making recent appointments. At the end of last year, four members left the ACSR because their two-year terms had expired Four others resigned after completing only one year because they either left Harvard or, like myself, were no longer interested in serving on the Committee...