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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...
...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...
...that present arrangements for exchange of ideas between students and faculty on matters of common educational concern leave much to be desired," it read, and it goes on to envision a set of student-faculty committees as forums for open discussion of issues affecting student life and education. The Fainsod Committee thus called for a student voice in shaping policy related to student housing, extracurricular activities, and broad educational policy, but it specifically rejected a model of total democracy. Instead, the committee argued to exclude students from voting on such matters as tenure appointments and final curriculum decisions, because...