Word: recommendations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Student-Faculty Adivsory Council (SFAC) voted last Thursday to recommend to the Faculty that Harvard not join the Project governing board. But Brooks said yesterday, "My impression is that not many people knew very much about what they were voting on. They didn't have much of a chance to look at the Cambridge Project ahead of time...
...Brooks subcommittee has been discussing the Project in twice-weekly sessions since October 3. It will make a recommendation on the Project sometime in November to the Faculty Committee on Research Policy, which will then advise the Faculty on what policy to recommend to the Corporation...
...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, and that the President, on the advice of the Dean of the Faculty, make such appointments...
Because of the wide diversity in the 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...
...aware that our recommendation for an expansion of student-faculty consultative arrangements at the departmental level is not without its price. It means an expenditure of time and energy on the part of both faculty and students, time and energy which some may feel might more profitably be devoted to substantive academic concerns. Despite these very real costs, we believe that the balance of advantage for both students and faculty dictates the course we recommend. The need for improved channels of communication between faculty and students is, we think, clear, and the potential benefits, in terms of building a constructive...