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This-essay is a7309242.htm which is available at the web-site www.essayz.com. See more notes at the bottom. Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay By-Months By-Years By-Words Webs of Like-&-Un-Like ESSAYS <==> Like-&-UN-Like This-One ========================================================== %FACULTY MEETINGS 730924 There is a tradition whereby the members of a liberal arts college faculty meet to discuss and adopt policies which direct the evolutionary course of their academic institution. As is common, there are committee reports, parliamentary procedures, group discussion, and votes. Not so many years ago such meetings were closed to the students who were the presumed beneficiaries of such meetings. Students were not permitted to contribute new questions which their elders had ignored for a variety of reasons. In recent years the spirit of democracy and the right-to-know which characterizes the society has worked its way into the deliberations relating to maintaining standards in colleges. The rights of students to influence such deliberations has been acknowledged. Yet after the initial novelty of the process has worn off, student participation in general faculty meetings commonly drops off. Sometimes it is said that the students were not really interested, and that their drop off in attendance is an indication of their lack of genuine interest. On the other hand it might be helpful to recognize that, unlike faculty members, the students do not have a financial interest in attending. The students are more free to see an unbiased value judgment regarding the worth of spending their time at faculty meetings rather than in assignments, independent study, or recreational activities. Suppose that the students' decisions and actions are taken as a serious indication of the quality of deliberation which they see at general faculty meetings. What might be the interpretation? Might it be that in the behavior of their faculty they do not see anything which they respect as worthy of emulation, and so of closer observation? The faculty of a liberal arts college should presumably be liberally educated and be qualified to deal with real problems in an educated way---which is free of narrowness of mind and vision. The purpose of a liberal arts college is to liberate young people from the enslavement of too narrow a frame of reference. The people who are supposed to help young people achieve this goal might reasonable be expected to have in large part already achieved such liberation. Might it be that college students have noticed how rare it is that college professors turn to each other for professional insights within the context of trying to solve the real problems of their liberal arts college, and also resolve the real dilemmas which are not technical problems. (c) 1999 by Paul A. Smith in GO: essayz.com "Search for Integrity and Honesty" (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================
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