Word: inputs
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Contrary to Jaron Bourke's assertions ("Search Needs Student Input," October 24, 1990), Harvard does not have to measure up to the standards of any other school in selecting its president. It has a long tradition of distinguished presidents who have guided it to its current position as a world leader in higher education. The search committee has the same stake as every other group in the University in choosing an imaginative, dedicated and competent president to prepare Harvard for the new millenium...
...staff position advocates openness and student input in the search for Harvard's next president, but then abandons those values when it comes to one of the most crucial points in the process. Out of concern for the reputations of the last remaining candidates, the staff suggests that the University keep secret the names of the finalists for the presidency...
...Harvard community. Secrecy might be necessary at the last stage of the process to protect the reputations of candidates. But with the field still so large, releasing the names could hardly compromise any potential Harvard president. And knowing specific names would permit Harvard constituencies to provide specific input on presidential candidates...
...also do imagine a Harvard without a council, and I see a student's nightmare. Harvard would be a university with absolutely no formal student input on administrative decisions, no financial support for most campus organizations, no concerts nor comedians and no student-run services such as the recent UC-PBH used book exchange...
...already met with the Corporation, and I hope to meet a number of the deans over the next few months," Meyer says. "I look at all of this as absolutely critical input. And that will get me involved in the University life to some extent...