Page Eight THE MICHIGAN DAILY Sunday, March 29, 1970 P_ eEgtH IHIA AL Decision-making committees seat students (Continued from page 1) The department meetings have three graduate and two under- graduate students present w h o vote on all matters except sal- aries and tenure. They do, how- ever, make recommendation on teaching fellow appointments and curriculum reform. This year, all of the money received by the department for guest lecturers was given to the graduate philosophy club. In this way, students themselves choose the lecturers. "I'm very pleased wth all the suggestions students h a v e made," said Prof. Charles Stev- enson, chairman of the phil- osophy department. "In fact," he adds, "it is ru- mored in the department that if, you want to get something through, have a student pro- pose it." The new working arrangement has made significant difference in the graduate program, sc- cording to Miss Pickering. Due to student suggestions there are now less required hours and more graduate participation in seminars. "Everything's going well," Miss Pickering says. "Representation innovations were handled in such a way that tempers weren't frayed, so -r there's no confrontational spirit involved now." Students in the psychology de- partment have had a voice on the undergraduate curriculum for years," according -to asso- ciate chairman John Miiholland. He says they have taken part in the committee's discussions on new courses, on curricular re- form and on curricular innova- tion. Upon the initiation of faculty members last fall, a "Curricular Innovation Committee," made up of two undergraduates, three graduates and four faculty mem- bers was set up. It has just completed its first assignment: a detailed recommendation f o r major renovation af the psy- chology department. The committee's report in- volves a two-fold restructuring. "Core courses" are proposed as a replacement for introductory courses and several sequence pro- grams of three courses each are proposed as options to required courses. These recommendations have already bean given a mandate by the executive committee and will be tried experimentally next fall. , Under the program, faculty will be be able to teach se- quences of subject matter in which they are particularly in- terested, and students will be given a sense of continuity and depth in the area in which they choose to study. It is also hoped that this re- structing will stimulate closer acquaintances between faculty and students in the large de- partment. But irrespective of the struc- tural changes, student leaders say there is need for more stu- dent participation in the psych-. ology department decision-mak- ing. "Instructors are without a doubt the most important fac- tors in education," said How- ard Cubell, '69, one of the stu- dent representatives' on the in- novation committee. "I think it is extremely im- portant that students have a role in the hiring -of faculty. Students must be represented on the executive committee where these decisions are made," he said. Prior to last year, meetings in the English department were closed and students had no voice in any of the decision-making processes. The students formed a steering committee which pre- sented complaints and suggest- ions that had been voiced at a forum: Although these were ig- nored by the decision-making units, students later gained three students seats on both graduate and undergraduate curriculum committees. Once the seats were won, stu- dent participation continued to increase. "We don't really go by the three vote allotment," said Fran- cis' Wineguest, '71, a student representative. "We just bring along as many students that are interested, and that's how much voice we have." Decisions are usually made by consensus at the faculty-stu- dent meetings although student representatives would have votes if the formality ever arose. English students are not seat- ed on the executive committee, and therefore have no formal role in final decisions of tenure and curriculum. In curriculum matters, five of the faculty members on the student curriculum committee are also on the executive com- mittee, so there is some student input. Tenure decisions have been disputed, however. "We were all ready to make a fight about a certain assistant professor who was denied tenure last year," Miss Wineguest says. "But when we came back this fall, he had been given it." Student leaders would still like to see students on the ex- ecutive decision-making unit, however, but one of the prob- lems there is the size of the English department. "We're working on a very small base of students as far as representatives go," Miss Wine- guest explained. "Three repre- sentatives can't pretend to rep- resent 1,000 English students, so we run the danger of represent- ing only three." Department chairman Prof.. Russell Fraser, chairman of the English department, is very satisfied with the present fac- ulty-student working arrange- ment. "The students have contrib- uted hard and amicable work to the department's business," he said, "which is really their busines after all." In the history department, the forum, which was the kick-off for student movement across the campus, has been retained and now meets with graduates, undergraduates a n d faculty members present. The meeting covers any and all matters of concern in the department, both general and specific. There is also a steering com- mittee which meets with the department's executive commit- tee. Student representatives are elected by the graduate and un- dergraduate constituencies to discuss monetary support for graduates. and curriculum re- form. Along with the steering com- mittee there is a student-fac- ulty curriculum committee made up of graduates, undergraduates, and faculty members who meet in separate divisions and then make proposals to the executive committee. Out of this branch of the de- partment have come proposals for revision of the doctoral pro- gram and a new junior seminar program which has already been adopted. In addition, there is a joint black student-faculty commit- tee dealing with recruitment of minority students. It was in- strumental in the adding of two black instructors to the faculty as well as in instituting two courses in Afro-American stu- dies. Decisions on tenure and hiring are not made with participation but there appears to be little student concern over the issue at present. "Most students feel the teach- ing in the department is pretty good," said Isabel Hull, '70, a committee representative, "And there hasn't been a case of a popular teacher being denied tenure." "The faculty in the history department has been very active in making steady changes in the department," according to Miss Hull. "In fact," she said, "they've made more reforms than we have." In some departments, there has been no pressure by students for seats on decision-making committees. James O'Neill, chairman of the romance languages depart- ment, says that he passed a petition urging students to take part in the affairs of the de- partment even before the mass student movementb e g a n. Neither graduates nor under- graduates responded. "Either they're politically in- ert," O'Neill speculated "or they're happy the way things are." O'Neill doesn't foresee any more faculty-initiated atteripts to involve students in depart- ment decision-making processes. "If there's a need for it, I guess the students will let us know," he said, "But so far' they haven't." A similar situation exists in the botany department. Four graduate students are selected to attend faculty committee meetings along with students holding candidate certificates. But no undergraduates have pushed for such representation. In the classical languages de- partment, where classes some- times have as few as two stu- dents, dialogue on instructors and curriculum flows steadily between students and faculty. The first year of widespread student participation in depart- mental decision-making is draw- ing to an end. Those faculty members who encouraged stu- dent involved are satisfied with the result. And those members who were hesitant to make room for student representation are conceding that, for the most part, student presence has been beneficial for all concerned. Why I Became a Jewish Draft Resilster AL AN SOLOMONOW National Director Jewish Peace Fellowship WED., APRIL 1st, 8 P.M CREDENTIALS 1. He burned his draft card. 2. He spent a year in Federal prison as a draft resister. 3. He is now National Program Direc- tor of the Jewish Peace Fellowship. RESPONSE TO HIM WILL BE FRITHJOF BERGMAN Students wishing individual appointments with him on Thursday morning, April 2 should call the foundation for an appoint- ment. 1429 Hill Street Try Daily Classif ieds, p Professor to file charges of disruption against strikers 'V (Continued from page 1) the question. Nor would he say whether the school would consider the case or refer it to CSJ. , However, Baker said that, in his{ judgment, CSJ should consider I the case. He explained that it was unclear whether the administrative board should handle non-academic of-' academic offenses committed by students. Contending that the student court should hear the case involv- ing Thursday's alleged disruption, CSJ chairman Ed Kussy said yes- terday, "If you come to disrupt, especially if you're nottpart of a class. you're engaging i non-aca- /demic behavior." ,r ;j CHERCHEZ LA FEMME A LA MAISON FRANCAISE MEN-Do you want to live in a French atmosphere? if you speak some. French come join us at the French co-op (Oxford Housing) next fall. CALL MARCELLE this weekend 764-2147 fenses, adding that whether class In summer, 1968, while the pro- disruption is an academic or non- posed bylaws were being drafted, academic offense is also nebulous. President Robben Fleming in-! CSJ has long maintained it has; structed the schools and colleges the exclusive right to hear cases to set up interim rules and dis- involving violations of rules gov- ciplinary procedures until the by- erning students' non-academic laws were adopted. conduct. However, this right has l eerb enrcgnzd-yth e nee'been recognized by theR -_________________ gents. The Regents are currently con- sidering proposed changes in thei Regents bylaws which would grant student courts the exclusive and f right to hear cases involving non- Acme 4 1 1 SUMMER EMPLOYMENT Male or Female Professors support RAM, question tactics (Continued from page 1) the way President Fleming is Saying he was impressed by handling the situation. "He's com- BAM's control of the situation ing across with a very fair offer," throughout the week, Mendel add- he said. ed, "I hope they remain as cool Education Prof. Joseph Payne, in negotiations as they were on Chairman of SACUA, said he was the Diag." glad there was no extended vio- French Prof. Karina Niemeyer lence, but added that he "resent- said she also supported the strike Id the disruptional process and "in the end." She felt the Regents barring of people from buildings." were -"unthinking" in their ac-- tons.Census counts Mrs. Niemeyer said she was not bothered by the disruption of classes and that the violence that U students as did occur was "not the fault of B any professors were clearly in city residents favor of the BAM demands, but appeared to have more serious (Continued from Page 1) reservations about the strike. not' revealed to anyone outside David Kopplin, a psychologist the Census Bureau, such as wel- said, "The BAM leadership is to fare oficials, police, or tax agents, be commended on trying to change census officials say. University priorities." .Bureau, such as welfare officials, However, he added, "I wish the police, or tax agents, census offi- demands could have been met cials say. without -a strike." - Local census officials expect to ,.I feel the demands are legiti- find Ann Arbor's population to mate," said Civil Engineering Prof. be about 110,000. 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