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...corollary of this is that students should be directly involved in appointments to college faculties and in the development of college curricula. Although the problem is more complex in a university, where the faculty has also the role of scholarship, I think we find a more imaginative and progressive approach than we have yet seen. Charles A. Whitney Professor of Astronomy
...Corporation leaves decisions on curricula, appointments, tenure and research to the Faculty but it retains control of the University's $1,100,000,000 endowment complex and appointment of presidents. Elected by international ballot, the Board of Overseers is being criticized for abdicating much of its authority to the Corporation...
...touched off immediate student protests. A series of abortive moves by both sides followed. But the issue of student and faculty power to create their own courses was never resolved. The Regents re-opened negotiations to decide just how much autonomy the individual campuses should have in designing curricula, but no clear statement emerged...
...claimed that ROTC courses didnt meet Harvard's standard academic criteria; because of their flabby content, the report said, the courses should be eliminated. But the HUC report--though not the HUC resolution--also said that the courses might reapply for credit if they changed their curricula. This loophole, was often overlooked in the subsequent debates over academic credit, but the CEP took up the notion several months later, using it as the basis for its recommendation...
...Better, in my judgment, is an action by the faculty to course a thorough reappraisal of the ROTC curricula, within the framework of flexibility available to each service, that would make the ROTC courses of acceptable quality." (memorandum...