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...Faculty Council in the next few weeks will seek input from students in the College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) and from faculty members before sending the plan to a vote of the full faculty, said Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57. But Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence said that if the Faculty votes down the proposed plan, he will likely forego future efforts to change...
...Michael Spence need only lay claim to insight into departmental excellence to silence opposition. But who is it that determines financial priorities, who consensts, and why? Who decides whether a department has achieved its primary objective of educating its students? Why is there no adequate apparatus for some student input into basic decisions? Why is one of America's leading universities still basically feudal in structure...
...modern world it ought to have the ability to consider such concepts as they relate to the University it sponsors. The ethics of investments, policies on unionization, treatment of junior faculty, the joint pressures of teaching and research and relations with the Cambridge community all deserve the input of the Harvard community in a formalized, procedural fashion...
...another through books. Bok communicates with the community through long, logical and legal treatises devoid of personal content. Faculty meetings allow little opportunity for open debate. Instead, projects are advanced behind the scenes, opposition quelled quietly. Change is measured in generations rather than months. Because initiatives rarely involve the input of the community, new projects must proceed ever so slowly to avoid the embarrassment of discontent or failure. For his 15 years in office, Bok has sought to improve the quality of teaching, referring to that goal constantly. Yet his concern has resulted only in speeches and papers designed...
Students were provided additional personal input into the process when the Ad Board added and appeals function in the early 1970s. If the Ad Board agreed to hear an appeal, students were permitted to appear before the Board to present their own case...