Word: fainsod
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...assembly. Many of its 96 members, some of whom say they are frustrated by a year of disputes, have come to pin their hopes for an effective student voice in University policy-making on a thorough review of the system of student-Faculty committees set up by the Fainsod Committee ten years...
...Fainsod Committee, although established before the turbulent events of 1969, reflected in its final report the increased concern with student participation in decision-making stimulated by the strike and its aftermath. The Committee report recommended creating a number of student-Faculty committees, of which two survive--the Committee on Housing and Undergraduate Life (CHUL) and the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE). These committees and the assembly have circled warily around each other this year, for the assembly's formation indicated many students' dissatisfaction with these committees. Moreover, the assembly has refused to act subordinate to CHUL...
...years ago, a committee under the late Merle Fainsod, Pforzheimer University Professor, played midwife to a divided Faculty as it gave birth to a system of incorporating student opinion into Harvard's administrative structure...
...Fainsod Committee's recommendations, which followed the Mass Hall takeover and student strike, led to Faculty legislation establishing the Faculty Council, Committee on Undergraduate Education, and Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life...
...entirely possible" that if a review is undertaken it will yield changes as broad as those achieved by the Fainsod review a decade ago, Fox added. "Each previous effort at changing the structure has resulted in a system more complicated than the last," he said...