Word: inputs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...problems in the History Department are, to some extent, inevitable, but much can be done to ameliorate them. A student-faculty committee to provide students with input into decisions about course offerings is a necessary first step. Flashy course offerings are great, but a little more stability would be a boon not only to history concentrators, but also to the many undergrads at Harvard who leaf longingly through the History Department's fabulous list of course offerings only to discover that the courses they want to take were offered last year or will be given sometime before the year...
Mather residents last night were invited to suggest qualities they consider important in a house master and to propose specific candidates to Jewett and Thomas A. Dingman '67, assistant dean of the College for the house system. Jewett said the College will take student input into serious consideration...
Harvard Real Estate (HRE) and the Harvard Planning Office are also examples of Harvard's paternalistic way of dealing with the community. HRE has always shunned tenant input into its major decisions, and they continue to ignore the activist Harvard Tenants Union. The Planning Office consistently excludes community members from the initial phases of all major building constructions and modifications. Instead, they ask for input only after the first set of plans have been drafted, thus giving community members a foregone conclusion which they can only modify in a minor...
University appointments are another area in which the administration assumes it knows more than students. The selection of the Dean of the College and of all faculty appointments is done without any official student input. Currently, a committee of faculty and administrators is in the process of selecting a new Dean of Admissions and Financial Aids. Again, students are deemed unknowledgeable or too inexperienced for the complex task...
...does Harvard routinely shun the input of those who will be affected by its decisions? Often, Harvard is simply afraid of hearing their suggestions. It's easier to rule from above than to listen to the wishes of those below. One of the few times when Harvard does stoop down and lend its ear to the underlings is when it chooses new house masters. The Dean of the College meets with house residents, and students participate on the master selection committee. Such an outrageously progressive decision-making process should serve as a model for major appointment decisions, and other choices...