Word: role
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TURN next to the role of students in the decision-making processes of the Faculty. In the course of our deliberations we have met on numerous occasions with our student consultants and have also benefited from advice, reports, or testimony from representatives of the Harvard Graduate Student Association, the Harvard Undergraduate Council, the Harvard-Radcliffe Policy Committee, the Student-Faculty Advisory Council, the Radcliffe Union of Students, the Crimson, the Harvard Political Union, the Young People's Socialist League, and individual students who attended our two open meetings. The advice we have received has been helpful, but also diverse...
Before proceeding to our specific recommendations, we should perhaps refer again to the general principles which have guided our thinking about the role of students in the governance of the Faculty. As we pointed out earlier, while we believe that the ultimate responsibility for appointments, degree requirements, and the curriculum must lie with the Faculty, we also think that students have a very important role to play in shaping their social and intellectual lives and the interrelations between them. We believe the Faculty should welcome and encourage student suggestions of ways to enrich their educational experience. We think it essential...
...room members that representatives of the House community should be considered when a vacancy in a House mastership is to be filled. This might take the form of a small advisory committee of senior House associates, tutors, and students to be convened by the President. Because of the key role which the Master plays in the life of the House, we believe that this would be a highly useful procedure...
...MOVE next to the student role in decision-making at the departmental level. Shortly after the creation of our committee, we requested department chairmen to acquaint us with their experience in this area. Their responses revealed a wide range of differing practices. Without undertaking a detailed description of these arrangements department by department, it may be useful to summarize the general categories into which they fall. In the case of a number of very small departments, no formal procedures for consultation with students exist, nor do they appear to be necessary. As one chairman of such a department noted...
...different assortments of people. Both perceive the absurdity and ?pettiness, but above all the glory of la comedic humaine. They each indulge in totally irrelevant detail, which produces an overall effect of realism. Both have a taste for the melodramatic and both believe that improbable chance plays a large role in the lives of real people...