Word: fainsod
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Merle Fainsod, Pforzheimer University Professor, chaired the Committee on the Committee on the Organization of the Faculty (Fainsod Committee(, which began with two purposes: to recommend changes in the governing arrangement and procedures of the Faculty, "which will better equip it to cope with the problems of change and adjustment which lie ahead," and to find ways "students can play a significant and responsible role in reaching decisions...
...Fainsod Committee divided into sub-committee for internal Faculty affairs and student-faculty relations. Students served as consultants to the committee but held no voting rights. However, Kenneth M. Kaufman '69, a former chairman of the HRPC, in a letter to the Faculty said he did not think there were "any issues strictly internal to the Faculty; and that on every issue students could contribute a valuable viewpoint and perspective." Subseqeuntly, the HRPC asked for full voting rights on the Committee...
Although the Faculty invited student groups to plead their case for voting rights, they rejected the proposal by a large margin. Nevertheless, the Fainsod Report offered an explanation for not granting students suffrage. "The case for vesting faculties with the final responsibility for appointments, curricular and degree requirements rests on their professional qualifications and on the fact that they must live with their decisions over many studnt generations." It seemed paradoxical to many students that the group charged with finding ways to include undergraduates in University decision-making denied them a formal vote on the matter...
...Committee issued its final report in mid-October 1969, abolishing HUC, HRPC and SFAC. Fainsod proposed student voting rights on an expanded version of HUC. The four-year-old HUC, which passed resolutions favoring a quick end to the Vietnam war and the elimination of parietals, also intiiated and occasionally completed, studies of the University Health Services, Food Services, admissions policy and hiring practices. Under its new mandate, the Fainsod Committee dealt with "undergraduate life." Hence, CHUL...
...issues than the fund drive and the Core Curriculum to consider. When former Radcliffe President Mary I. Bunting formally opened the Faculty talks on the merger in April 1969, the student strike erupted two days later. In the following months, as the faculty cowered in Sanders Theater and Merle Fainsod, Pforzheimer University Professor, guarded the portals of Widener Library, the merger was far from anyone's mind...