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...discussions during the past two years was not programming but rather how to make the IOP more inclusive and better distribute its resources to all students. To achieve these goals, SAC voted to dramatically reduce its role at the IOP by halving its own size. It also created a merit-based intermediate level of involvement, the Senior Associate Program, which recognized the leadership non-SAC students provided the Institute. This semester, as this new structure matured, it was these non-SAC members who possessed the most significant responsibilities the IOP offered. A non-SAC student led a study group...
...process by which it selected its new members. Like many Harvard student organizations, SAC admitted new members through an application process rather than elections. All applicants wrote essays and were interviewed by a selection committee that evaluated them with an objective point-based system which considered both their personal merit and larger concerns of diversity and fair representation of gender, race, ideology and interest as well. Like any selection process, especially at Harvard, many qualified applicants were not accepted. These students were understandably disappointed with the outcome of the process, and some advocated for elections as an alternative...
...this meeting. This proposal advocates democratic elections and the maintenance of a form of student leadership. Although the group is excited that elections may produce direct representation and strengthen the IOP community, it agreed that IOP students will need to be especially careful to ensure elections focus on candidates merit and not political skills. I am hopeful and confident that this proposal for the interim student leadership of the IOP, if realized, will produce a system that improves student involvement while taking into account the concerns SAC held during its tenure...
...great possibilities," Ludmerer said. "Medical professors have been rewarded much more for research than for teaching. The Academy of medical educators has merit to it, as it seeks to create an endowment to support educational activities rather than research or patient care...
Close relationships with the business world, however, also merit a degree of caution according to current council Treasurer Justin A. Barkley...