Word: reforms
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...remains to be seen whether these reforms can be any more effectively enforced than the 1958 tutorial legislation. Bowersock's plan would establish departmental student-faculty committees to review the tutorials and notify administrators when they fail to comply with the requirments. Faculty Council members requested last week that the legislation clearly state that students would serve only on an advisory basis. As a result, Faculty members would serve as their own judges. The reforms will be useless unless the Faculty takes tutorial reform seriously and obeys its requirments...
...employee relations and government regulation--two other emerging fields. But some B-School faculty think Bok overlooked the considerable attention the school already pays to these areas. Just recently the faculty passed a revised curriculum including treatment, at least in bits and pieces, of the areas Bok outlines. Curricular reform is always a thorny process and not likely to occur again soon...
Business school faculty and administrators may end up simply filing Bok's report under miscellaneous correspondence and forgetting about it. They feel their recent curriculum reform constituted enough change for a while, and students seem to agree. B-school people don't even like to talk much about Bok's report. Instead, they present an unfrazzled and unrevealing front to the world, while inside students continue to prepare as before for the day when they will "take charge and run something...
...MOST recent report to the Harvard Corporation, the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) recommended that the University continue its role as the pen pal of corporate managers, writing "forcefully worded" letters to persuade reluctant corporations to confess their sins and reform...
Like Temperance Leaguers, Faculty members occasionally launch campaigns to reform tutorials. This year's effort--marshalled by Glen W. Bowersock '57, associate dean of the Faculty on undergraduate education, joins a long history of changes all directed at the same goal: increased Faculty involvement in tutorials. Sadly, all share the same weakness which dooms their potential for effectiveness: no method of enforcement...