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...council also postponed further discussion of changes in the language requirement. An ad hoc Faculty committee examining the requirement had presented a proposal to the council at its last meeting requiring that all students, even those who take a full year of foreign language, pass a proficiency test in language...
Although tenure decisions adhere to no exact criteria (instead following, in one administrator's words, a "common law"), all evidence, such as the recent decision not to promote four assistant History professors, points to the fact that the ad hoc tenure committee does not take teaching into account. One necessary reform is to increase undergraduate input into promotion decisions by including student letters of recommendation, CUE guide evaluations and course enrollment statistics in the dossier of each tenure-track candidate; Danforth Center videotapes of his teaching should also be required for his file...
Deloria, Gurnoe, Archambault, Medicine and others have formed an ad hoc committee to lobby against Hanta Yo. Wolper, who sees a golden television property turning to lead, has proposed setting up a Sioux advisory board. For the lobbyists, that is not enough: at week's end they were still demanding that the TV project be killed...
...gown to order. If the Coop really intends to offer students a choice, then it should not prejudice this choice by such public comments. Mr. Argeros has revealed his pro-Cotrell & Leonard bias. How did this bias influence the Coop's refusal to boycott Cotrell & Leonard? Dave Shryock Ad Hoc Committee on Caps and Gowns
...same affliction strikes at the core of Harvard's system of promotion. Despite President Bok's assertion to the contrary, the mechanism of the tenuring process seems to deny the importance of teaching ability. In his address to students last April, Bok explained that for the ad hoc tenure committee to accept a candidate, he "must be the best person in the field available in the world." But as an academic 'field' is by necessity narrowly defined, in order to provide the department depth in one area, that doesn't leave much room for consideration of teaching. As one administrator...