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After careful and extensive study of the operation of the Administrative Board of Harvard College, our disposition is not to recommend student membership. A number of our student consultants, after examining the types of cases coming before the Administrative Board, frequently involving intimate personal problems, expressed some disinclination to participate in inquiries into and judgments on them. We also face issues of overlapping jurisdiction. As the working paper of the Committee of Fifteen referred to in our postscript on disciplinary procedures makes clear, reforms in the procedures and composition of the Administrative Board and the Radcliffe Judicial Council are currently...
There are, however, a number of committees such as the Library, Athletics, Dramatics, Graduate and Career Plans, Student Activities, and Study Counsel where it seems to us that student membership may be both appropriate and highly useful. We 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...
...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...
...case of the large and middle-size departments, practices vary markedly. Formal arrangements for consultation with graduate students appear to be fairly widely prevalent. The most typical pattern is a joint graduate student-faculty advisory committee which meets to discuss curricular questions and departmental requirements, but which may also raise other issues of interest to students. In a few departments undergraduates are also members of these committees. Student members are ordinarily elected, either through the departmental graduate student organization or by the departmental graduate student body. In some cases, parallel faculty and graduate student committees have been established, and arrangements...
...departments provide for limited graduate student participation in some of their standing committees. In the Department of Astronomy two graduate students attend meetings of the Committee on Academic Studies, and two others are represented on the committee concerned with planning the new Observatory building. In the Department of Economics the President of the Graduate Economics Club sits in as a member of the Graduate Instruction Committee, a teaching fellow has been added to the Undergraduate Instruction Committee, and the committee administering the Political Economy Lectures Fund includes two delegates of the Graduate Economics Club and one undergraduate chosen...