Word: governance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...move to bolster the controversial Afro-American Studies Department, Dean Rosovsky has created an executive committee of five prominent senior faculty to govern the department...
Southern said yesterday she resigned her position partly because she did not understand how she could work as department chairman with a proposed executive committee that would govern the department...
After Rosovsky met with dissatisfied junior faculty members of the department last semester, the Faculty Council considered a proposal to govern the department through an executive committee of professors. Rosovsky is expected to announce the appointment of such a committee this fall...
...that the system doesn't work--in fact, it manages to govern Harvard with more stability and flexibility than many other schools' set-ups. But it certainly does not have any pretense of catering directly to student needs. The same decentralization that keeps most offices in the black, and leaves few officials with overwhelming areas of responsibility, makes it almost impossible for students--especially freshmen--to know where to go when they have complaints or questions. The absence of any full-fledged, respected student government that can both collect student opinions and send them into the right office so that...
...that he has arrived at an impasse. He is blocked on absolutely every route, but he is a man who cannot change his mind, and he has no conception of modern economics and politics. Nothing will change him. If he does change his mind, he will be unable to govern any more. But if he does not, he will not be able to do anything either. He is at an impasse, so I think that, alas, there will be an explosion...