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...relatively easy informal relationships between students and junior teaching staff. But, helpful as these ad hoc contacts have been, we believe that they need to be supplemented by arrangements which will bring students into a closer relationship with the more formal decision-making machinery of the Faculty. We think that such a result can best be achieved through a wider use of joint student-faculty committees which meet at stated intervals to discuss matters of common interest. We realize from our own experience that such committees consume a great deal of time and energy and divert both their student...
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...
...Committee on Admissions and Scholarships and the Administrative Boards of the College and the Graduate School and the Radcliffe Judicial Board constitute special cases. While we do not believe that students should be involved in decisions on specific applications for admissions or scholarships, we do think that they are properly concerned with policy questions, and we can visualize many fruitful possibilities for student-committee collaboration following the precedent of the use of Black students for recruiting. We have sought to meet students' interests in this area, not by membership in the Committee on Admissions and Scholarships, but by recommending that...
...Department of Social Relations writes, "Early in the fall at a meeting of the Graduate Student Organization. I described the Department's standing committees and invited the Organization to consider where they would like representation. So far they have not chosen to elect representatives to the committees... I think it is likely, however, that enough will become interested so that at least some committees will have regular student members...
...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 partnership in the life of the University, seem to us worth the necessary sacrifices...