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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the time came for the 538 first-year students to decide how they (as well as employers receiving transcripts) would receive their grades, 179 chose pass-fail, 75 chose the four-level system and the rest stayed with the nine categories. Even those who chose pass-fail may elect later to receive their grades again, this time in four or nine categories...
...argues that the university itself must reestablish some form of authority or "face the prospect of outside imposition." The real question is: what form should the new authority take? Institutions can usually eliminate the violence of a minority by becoming more democratic. Political reform-at the university and national level-would do the most to "depoliticize" the university...
...student-faculty bodies were formed. One will deal with issues on the department level and will include two student representatives. Each department will decide on the issue of student votes on the committees...
While much can be done within the faculties, important problems requiring solution on a University level have already surfaced and more are bound to do so. We have just mentioned one-the development of University-wide standards with respect to obstructions of processes and activities essential to its functioning and of fair procedures for their prompt enforcement. Another is the responsibility of the University to the communities where it operates and its relationship to a still wider society in a multiplicity of contexts...
Still other subjects that may require action at the University level are the increasing number of programs offered jointly by two or more faculties and the establishment of standards with respect to outside activities of faculty members. Moreover our statement that certain matters are the primary responsibilities of a faculty does not mean that the University can turn its head away if these are not fulfilled...