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...most students, though, CUE is supposed to be the one organization which directly works with the Faculty Council and proposes educational changes to the Faculty. But no matter how persuasively a CUE student member defends a student proposal--such as the recommendation last year to expand credit for study abroad--all decisions ultimately rest with the Faculty Council, and no student is allowed to participate in Council discussions. With Bowersock's permission, a CUE student member may present his case to the Faculty Council, but he must leave before the Council begins debate...
...CUE student members then depend on the faculty members of CUE to defend their case before the Faculty Council, but in the past the professors have rarely relished the task. Because the CUE rarely takes a vote--preferring to "reach a consensus," as Bowersock calls it--and because many of the faculty members remain silent during much of the CUE discussions, students often have no idea what faculty members think of their ideas. "We figure if they are quiet," Henderson deducts "they (the professors) don't object...
This interpretation apparently was misguided. The Faculty Council's resounding rejection last May of the CUE study abroad plan, which CUE students assumed CUE faculty members supported, is the most glaring example. "They acted like they were taking us seriously," Brown said, adding that throughout the discussions the professors "nodded their heads" sympathetically. Bowersock says he believed all CUE faculty members backed the students and was "surprised" when all but one rejected study abroad. Cromption says he missed that Council meeting and did not get around to voting...
Bowersock theorizes that faculty members are hesitant to speak at CUE meetings because students seem so eager to make their points and "wave their hands with gusto." Because the CUE is open to guests, many ERG members attend the meetings and Bowersock believes the professors find the imbalanced ratio--sometimes 25 students to two or three faculty members--"overwhelming." Professors seem less anxious when lecturing to vastly larger student audiences in class each week, but then monologues and dialogues are two different things...
Faculty members did speak up when CUE debated the Core Curriculum last year, Henderson observes. "When the Harvard national image is at stake," he rightly reasons, the Faculty finds its voice. But when it comes to purely student issues such as study abroad, faculty members slip back into the background...