Word: departmentalizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Professors from both schools have expressed interest in the Project, which would use M.I.T. computers for social science research funded by the Defense Department. Harvard has been invited to join M.I.T. on the governing board of the Project which has been attacked by radicals as an alleged aid to counterrevolutionary...
The committee considered three major issues last week? the fact of Defense Department sponsorship, the potential effect of the Project on the academic departments which would be involved, and the ability of the Project's mechanisms of governance to handle various problems. The group will review some of its conclusions...
...MOVE next to the student role in decision-making at the departmental level. Shortly after the creation of our committee, we requested department chairmen to acquaint us with their experience in this area. Their responses revealed a wide range of differing practices. Without undertaking a detailed description of these arrangements department by department, it may be useful to summarize the general categories into which they fall. In the case of a number of very small departments, no formal procedures for consultation with students exist, nor do they appear to be necessary. As one chairman of such a department noted...
A few departments provide for limited graduate student participation in some of their standing committees. In the Department of Astronomy two graduate students attend meetings of the Committee on Academic Studies, and two others are represented on the committee concerned with planning the new Observatory building. In the Department of...
So far, judging by the communications which we have received from department chairmen, the consultative arrangements established at the graduate level have yielded positive results and created few problems. While concern is occasionally expressed over the time consumed by efforts to resolve differences of opinion, most department chairmen regard these...