Word: processes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Student power, together with the resistance it has generally encountered from faculty and administration members, has noticeably affected campus attitudes. Much of the actual discontent and rebellion in the student community is due to students' isolation from the rational process which governs their environment...
...quality of reasoning since faculty members have had more experience than students. However, the very fact that these people are no longer students seriously limits their perspective. It is students who are in direct contact with the pressures (and the immediate effects of these pressures) of the educational process. The "shortrun" perspective, which many people bemoan as limiting, is a necessary and important part of any complete analysis. It is not included now, and only students can supply it. Thus, the difference in competence is compensated for by the potential student contribution of a more immediate knowledge of educational pressures...
...University, Brown, Rice) have recently experimented with joint faculty-administration-student committees, and none has reported security leaks, absence of meaningful discussion, or lack of informed and interested students who had sufficient time to devote to this type of activity. These committees have become integral parts of the decisionmaking process at these colleges. Unless Harvard students are substantially less trustworthy than other students, unless Harvard's faculty-student gap is incredibly large, or unless Harvard students are considerably less interested in their environment than other students, it appears that these objections are unrealistic and that, in addition to students having...
...case, it is clear that student opinion does not have meaningful influence at the present time. Effective student influence will only occur when students participate with the faculty on committees and in the final decision-making process...
...which should always include student opinion) and the day-to-day operation of any one committee. The Admissions Committee, for example, should have student members when deciding policy issues, but would probably require an in-ordinate amount of time from any student attempting to participate in the entire admissions process. To illustrate the manner in which committee membership should be determined, three committees will be briefly examined...