Word: formality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence yesterday criticized an Undergraduate Council report calling for formal student input in the tenure process and the resurrection of the post of tenured associate professor...
Spence said he does not object to students voicing opinions on tenure candidates to department chairmen but added that he thought any formal integration of student participation in the tenure process is not likely. Potential breeches of confidentiality could arise if students were to play a heightened role in the process, he said...
...Realistically, I think students can have informal input into appointments at the departmental level," Spence said. "I don't think it's realistic for students to have a formal role...
...community] goes hand-in-hand with the paper-I'd like to see the arts community come together in a more formal way," he said...
...diplomat is explaining to his earnest, rumpled American counterpart why the Kremlin must reject what both sides agree is a fair and useful arms-control plan. They are standing in the one place they can be candid, a small stretch of forest near the villas where, with grave and formal ceremony, they daily meet. Shared frustration has made them intimates, if still not quite friends, so the answer is blunt: "We don't trust you." Long years at the table have persuaded the Soviet that neither government will actually reduce armaments; neither side can afford the risky belief that...