Word: maye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...machinery for consulting with undergraduate concentrators. From the student point of view, such arrangements have the advantage of providing a recognized channel through which grievances can be ventilated, criticisms expressed, and proposals for change discussed with the Faculty. From the departmental point of view, the existence of such machinery may not only serve as a stimulus to curricular improvements but also provide an opportunity to dispel misunderstanding by explaining the rationale behind existing requirements...
There are, however, a number of committees such as the Library, Athletics, Dramatics, Graduate and Career Plans, Student Activities, and Study Counsel where it seems to us that student membership may be both appropriate and highly useful. We understand that the Faculty Committee on Athletics Sports is favorably disposed toward a proposal to add three members of the Harvard Undergraduate Athletic Council to its membership, and that the Committee on Dramatics has taken steps to invite the President of the Harvard Dramatic Society to join it. We recommend that other committees in the category listed above initiate similar action...
...role in decision-making at the departmental level. Shortly after the creation of our committee, we requested department chairmen to acquaint us with their experience in this area. Their responses revealed a wide range of differing practices. Without undertaking a detailed description of these arrangements department by department, it may be useful to summarize the general categories into which they fall. In the case of a number of very small departments, no formal procedures for consultation with students exist, nor do they appear to be necessary. As one chairman of such a department noted, "Of the 51 students taking courses...
...case of the large and middle-size departments, practices vary markedly. Formal arrangements for consultation with graduate students appear to be fairly widely prevalent. The most typical pattern is a joint graduate student-faculty advisory committee which meets to discuss curricular questions and departmental requirements, but which may also raise other issues of interest to students. In a few departments undergraduates are also members of these committees. Student members are ordinarily elected, either through the departmental graduate student organization or by the departmental graduate student body. In some cases, parallel faculty and graduate student committees have been established, and arrangements...
...size, the needs, the practices, and preferences of the departments, we do not undertake to recommend a standard form of student-faculty consultative arrangement for all departments. Indeed, in the case of the small departments, where relations between students and faculty are usually close and intimate, no formal machinery may be needed, and we see no point in proliferating committees for the sake of symmetry. We do believe, however, that there is a need for such consultative arrangements in the medium-size and larger departments, and we urge that they be established where they do not now exist. Their precise...