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...Whether or not it did in fact advance beyond the effectiveness threshold of a planned economy, the Fainsod system—with its myriad dispersed committees??seems to have created confusion for students seeking a direct avenue to gather and voice a collective opinion. Looking for a more effective, centralized organ of student governance, undergraduates voted in 1978 to establish a 96-member body known as the Student Assembly. Though founded with optimism and ratified by student referendum, the Assembly never received official recognition from the University, nor did it receive any formal powers or funding. That...
...assured that FAS committees??including the Gen Ed and Teaching Task Forces—are working hard to prepare things for the February meeting,” Ulrich, the 300th Anniversary University professor, added...
...undergraduates have a another ballot to cast: the Undergraduate Council’s (UC) presidential campaigns will begin when the campus returns from Thanksgiving break. In the last year, the UC has been restructured and substantially improved. Without the Campus Life Committee, UC money has been redirected to House Committees??whose budgets have increased from $3,500 to $4,500 per term—and to student groups, while campus-wide social events have been placed in more capable hands.This new, streamlined UC now needs to find a way to do more. We challenge this year?...
...proposals come from 32 existing concentrations as well as three interdisciplinary coordinating committees??archaeology, global health, and the Committee on Mind, Brain, and Behavior. A graduate program on the study of Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia has also submitted a plan for an undergraduate track...
...lackadaisical search for women and minority faculty candidates has violated federal affirmative action hiring codes, a complaint still pending with the Department of Labor. Last week, the school finally began to act. Administrators announced they will include students on the school’s three admissions committees??as a student panel had requested. And they revealed they will soon hire a female associate professor, the highest-level female faculty member in the school’s history. Admirable as these moves are, they can only be first steps. Even with the hiring of Mary Jo Bane, the school...