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Student committee members also could attend Faculty meetings and join in discussing matters relevant to their committee. "A few" members of the Fainsod Committee, the report said, "are willing to entertain the possibility that within the Faculty... these student participants might vote on issues of proper concern to them...
...Fainsod report also recommended inclusion of students on such committees as the Library, Athletics, Dramatics, Graduate and Career Plans. Student Activities, and Study Counsel. But, it added. "we do not believe it to be wise or appropriate to include students as members of research or degree committees which deal with purely Faculty matters or which are engaged in making professional judgments about the qualifications of students for degrees...
...Fainsod Committee recommended "that at each Faculty meeting, following the reports from the President, the dean, and the Docket Committee, approximately ten minutes (or longer, if so voted by a majority of the Faculty) be reserved for members of the Faculty to request information from the President, the dean, or the chairmen of Faculty committees...
...past, the Corporation has awarded honorary degrees-"often without consulting the Faculty," according to James C. Thomson, Jr., assistant professor of History and a member of the Fainsod Committee. Thomson called the Committee's recommendation of Faculty participation in the matter "a mini-revolutionary proposal...
...report recommended that the Faculty Council be consulted in the choice of future deans. "Many" of the Fainsod Committee members, it added, "believe that in due course all senior deanships might ideally be filled by members of the teaching Faculty." Not all present deans teach...