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Although Harvard does not actively solicit student feedback, members of the administration said they believe their input is considered...
...philosophy.” This is all well and good, of course, except when these things fail to vary among the different campaigns, leaving personality as the only differentiator. Though of course no one could reasonably expect a candidate to argue against, say, 24-hour library access or student input into the College’s Allston expansion, candidates made the unfortunate decision to try to differentiate themselves based on experience (or lack thereof), self-perceived personal capacity for leadership and even gender and house affiliation; the Teo P. Nicolais ’06-Samita A. Mannapperuma...
...large universities like Harvard or Princeton, undergraduates get used to having important decisions made without their say. Princeton, however, has introduced a greater measure of student input into its tenure process by putting letters from students regarding the performance of their professors in official faculty files. This letter-writing program is not new; but Princeton is now actively advertising, in the daily college newspaper and via e-mail, its students’ privilege to write about their professors. We hope this promising program works at Princeton, and we expect Harvard’s administration to watch and learn from Princeton?...
...even with the problems these types of letters would have, more student input is still the right idea. Many parts of the tenure process are quite subjective; a recommendation on behalf of another professor can easily be just as misleading. Like all references, student letters should be taken with these possible prejudices in mind and should be evaluated in conjunction with the other available information on the professor...
...choice parts of glazercapp.com and teoandsamita.com.” Practically the only original point in the Moore-Nichols platform, the one about placing students on departmental hiring committees, was the point that the campaign least effectively elaborated on. When asked about how he would provide input to faculty about this initiative at the official debate, Moore answered, “Particular methods of input will include email, phone calls, et cetera.” Honest, but apparently not presidential...