Word: quorums
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Back in the 1970s, when Texas politicians still drank, smoked and sparred in dark smoky bars, The Quorum Club was Austin's premier political watering hole. There at the big corner table, you'd find a cast of political characters drawn in bold Texas strokes-men with firm handshakes and loud laughs, men who had been nurtured by LBJ and knew politics, by and large, for that matter, mostly men. Most women in the room then were decorative. Except Ann Richards, the onetime Texas governor with the sharp tongue and quick wit, who died Wednesday...
...have surrendered our role in the decision-making processes of the University, largely oblivious to the short-term decisions that affect our own undergraduate experience and disinterested in long-term projects that will affect future classes. The student response to the Faculty’s inability to muster the quorum needed to expand the course evaluation system? Silence. And when the Undergraduate Council seemingly forgot to fill student representative seats on the curricular review committees, it was more of the same. This widespread student apathy has obvious and unfortunate consequences for life on campus. More troubling, however, is what...
...those of curricular reform and the need for better teaching. Instead, it spent much of the year focusing on the ouster of University President Lawrence H. Summers—the most undergraduate-friendly Harvard president in recent history—while at other times it had difficulty even attaining quorums at its meetings to discuss undergraduate matters.By this fall, all of the Harvard College Curricular Review’s (HCCR) committees had submitted their final reports—an accomplishment that itself occurred nearly three years after the process began. Given the dedication of these committees’ members...
APRIL 18, 2006 Professors approved delaying concentration choice to the middle of sophomore year, as well as a proposal to revamp the life sciences curriculum. But quorum was only met after some professors trickled in in the middle of the meeting. “Usually there is a bigger crowd when there’s controversy, and it was pretty obvious there wasn’t going to be controversy today,” Faculty Council Vice Chair Laurel Thatcher Ulrich said after the meeting...
...Faculty failed to reach quorum for a vote to require classes of five or more students to be evaluated for the CUE Guide. But the proposal ran into opposition from several professors who said the move would be an encroachment on “professorial autonomy...