Word: groupings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
Like the Harvard Corporation, the Radcliffe Board of Trustees is a financially independent, self-perpetuating group of people charged with the care of the institution it takes its name from. But where the Corporation is "the oldest ruling oligarchy in America," in the words of one Radcliffe administrator, the Trustees are a more diverse group with a higher public profile and a better public image...
...executive committee meets monthly to conduct more immediate business. "The executive committee does the nitty-gritty stuff," Burr says. Their composition is much less homogeneous than the Corporation's--the mix of alumni, parents, academics, businessmen and professionals (not to mention the presence of women and minority group members) make the Radcliffe trustees more like Harvard's Board of Overseers than the Corporation. (The Overseers are a larger group that meets less frequently than the Corporation and advises the University on non-financial matters...
...chose the plan, proposed by the Educational Resources Group (ERG), over a stiffer option recommended by Mack I. Davis, director of advanced standing, which would grant sophomore standing only to students who received a score of 4 on four A.P. exams. The highest possible grade...
...time we're in the middle primaries, I've got to stop being in second place and start being in first place," Baker, the Senate minority leader, said yesterday to a group of supporters...