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Surprisingly, perhaps, none of this has discouraged the critics. Test reform groups succeeded last year in pushing through a New York state law that requires ETS for the first time to provide students with their answer sheets, the questions themselves, and an explanation of scoring formulae. ETS responded by voluntarily...
The dean's logic was simple: Faculty and students increasingly had voiced qualms about the constitution, particularly its provision guaranteeing two minority spots on the proposed council's executive committee; Rosovsky hoped the joint body's discussions would yield a consensus that could secure both sides' support.
MEMBERS OF THE CONSTITUTION and implementation committees have thus far provided few concrete answers for these problems. All too often during their recent meetings with Faculty and students, they have responded to these question by saying only things like, "We discussed this point at length during our meetings and this...
Even students who would favor some kind of minority representation on the council have expressed doubts about the provision's wording. One problem with the plank is that seven specific groups would be represented--Asians, Blacks, disabled students, gay students, Mexican-Americans, Native Americans and Puerto Ricans. Students and Faculty...
There is, to be fair, a provision for additional groups to ask for votes on the committee, but this, too, raises problems. The provision states that "the Council may, by two-thirds vote, confer or deny [representation on the administrative committee] to any other group." But as one Faculty Council...