Word: dockets
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...first issue on the docket for this meeting is Q reform. The Faculty’s plan would, among other things, make course evaluations mandatory for all courses with five or more students and make course grades available early to students who have submitted course evaluations. Other issues on the floor include creating a PhD program in film and visual studies, and making articles published by faculty members available for free. These issues, each of which we have previously endorsed, ought to be passed as efficiently and speedily as possible...
...Smith said he was unconcerned with the delay. “The lack of a Faculty Meeting in January won’t impair our forward progress,” he wrote in an e-mail. “We will be able to get all of our current docket items onto the Feb. agenda.” Professors have already been given the option of allowing their students to evaluate courses after final exams, according to FAS Registrar Barry S. Kane. Because the change was not a universal reform, it did not require a vote of the full Faculty...
Ragalie and UC President Ryan A. Petersen ’08 both said they expected the Council to consider the non-termbill option on Monday, even though it is not formally included on the docket...
Judith L. Ryan, a German literature professor and member of the Faculty Council docket committee, said that the 18-member governing body of FAS hoped his presentation next week would usher in a broader discussion about free speech at Harvard...
...Hiatt can be reached at ahiatt@fas.harvard.edu. —Staff writer Maxwell L. Child can be reached at child@fas.harvard.edu. CORRECTION: The Nov. 8 news article "Professor To Bring Free Speech Motion to Faculty" wrongly identified German literature professor Judith L. Ryan as a member of the Faculty Council's docket committee. She is no longer a member of the docket committee...