Word: students
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Student Viewpoint...
Pointing out that in many cases, the members of the faculty are "unable to take the time to consider the point of view of the student in making up their minds on advancement or possible dismissal," the report suggests the creation of a student Committee on Curriculum, keeping in mind the agency "already in operation at Vassar...
...danger of putting any one student in a position of some authority on advancement" which "must in some way be obviated" will be solved, the report says, by making the student representatives "nothing more than collectors and weighers of information. They should never give their own opinion on a teacher...
Although the Report on Teachers' Advancement contains valuable suggestions, a study of the document as a whole gives a strong sense of disappointment. Appointed in the midst of the Walsh-Sweezy furore, the Student Council's committee was asked to investigate, besides "the relation of teaching and research as bases for choice and advancement of faculty members," such important topics as the social sciences trend and the worth of making departmental budgets more flexible...
...recommendation of a Student Committee on Curriculum, perhaps it is most charitable to reserve comment until this proposal is put into comprehensible form. As it stands, it appears entirely vague, unworkable, and unrepresentative. No mention is made of how the students who are to gather undergraduate opinion will be chosen. Apparently they are to be picked with the advice of departmental chairmen, yet undergraduates will have the right of final decision. Does this mean another convention? In addition, these students are "to be chosen first on the basis of intellectual ability; this would assure no warping of judgment...