Word: inputs
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...those representatives—Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby invited students to participate in an online survey which attempts to gauge what students might want out of an Allston campus. We are pleased with the new approach; Kirby finally appears to understand that asking for student input instead of presuming to know what students want is a far more diplomatic tact. Still, a fundamental question was missing from the survey: whether or not there should be undergraduate housing in Allston. The absence of that question has left many students puzzled and worried that undergraduate housing in Allston...
...affected by the change also should have been consulted. The new restriction has hit Quincy hard. With first-years who used to eat at Adams flocking to Quincy, House residents and dining hall staff face overcrowding and overwork. In setting the new restriction without Quincy students’ input, Adams merely shifted its problem to another house...
...wrote that the lack of student leaders’ input on financial matters resulted from the fact that “students are preoccupied with other things” during January and February, when the budget...
...applaud administrators’ efforts to elicit student input. The inclusion of a total of eight students on the working groups responsible for making recommendations was one such positive move, undertaken at the outset of the curricular review. More recently, some of those eight students, as well as Gross and Wolcowitz, have held several House visits, soliciting ideas (and running their own by the small groups of students who attend) to include in the preliminary report...
...release is a work in progress. That is, after all, the point of releasing the working groups’ recommendations to the student body: to facilitate a fuller and more open debate about proposed changes. While Gross’s and Wolcowitz’s attempts to garner student input are appreciated, their model is flawed—if they are to elicit the widespread student opinions they should want, they must open up their process and allow working groups to air the ideas they’ve had more than a year to formulate...