The Committee on Graduate Education would primarily concern itself with such aspects of graduate education as are general to the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and do not fall under the specific jurisdictions of the departments" and "with the improvement of departmental student-Faculty communication at the graduate level."

The Committee on Students and Community Relations would consider "subjects of student concern involving the relations of the Faculty to the community and government." Specifically, the Committee would "serve as a forum to discuss admissions and scholarship policies in the College" and would meet regularly with the Faculty Committee on Admissions and Scholarships.

"Proposals originating in and approved by the joint committees would first be presented to the Faculty Council for its recommendations before being submitted for Faculty consideration." the report said.

Participation

Student committee members could participate in the Council meetings considering their proposals.

Student committee members also could attend Faculty meetings and join in discussing matters relevant to their committee. "A few" members of the Fainsod Committee, the report said, "are willing to entertain the possibility that within the Faculty... these student participants might vote on issues of proper concern to them."

The Fainsod report also recommended inclusion of students on such committees as the Library, Athletics, Dramatics, Graduate and Career Plans. Student Activities, and Study Counsel. But, it added. "we do not believe it to be wise or appropriate to include students as members of research or degree committees which deal with purely Faculty matters or which are engaged in making professional judgments about the qualifications of students for degrees."

Time-Saver

The establishment of a Docket Committee, the report said, could "save considerable time in Faculty discussion." This committee, which would consist of three Faculty Council members, would set a tentative docket for all Faculty meetings-a function now exercised by the Dean of the Faculty, who would chair the committee.

The Docket Committee would "receive proposals for Faculty action from all sources... convert each proposal into a docket item,... specify the procedure by which it should be considered,... propose the appropriate form of voting,... and... call the attention of the Faculty to the kind of timetable that should be followed."

The committee could in special cases "call for a decision by a mail ballot of the entire Faculty, instead of by a vote of those present at the meeting," and it could also recommend to the President "the calling of additional meetings or meetings of exceptional length."

The Fainsod Committee recommended "that at each Faculty meeting, following the reports from the President, the dean, and the Docket Committee, approximately ten minutes (or longer, if so voted by a majority of the Faculty) be reserved for members of the Faculty to request information from the President, the dean, or the chairmen of Faculty committees."

For the University

Recommendations made by the report for the University as a whole included representation of its Faculties on a Committee on Honorary Degrees and on a committee to select Harvard's next President, and revival of the "long dormant" University Council to "concern itself with inter-faculty and University-wide problems."

In the past, the Corporation has awarded honorary degrees-"often without consulting the Faculty," according to James C. Thomson, Jr., assistant professor of History and a member of the Fainsod Committee. Thomson called the Committee's recommendation of Faculty participation in the matter "a mini-revolutionary proposal."

The University Council, as established by the Statutes of the University, includes "the President. professors. associate Professors, and assistant professors of the University and such other University officials as [the Governing Boards] many appoint." This large body has never been called together.

Choosing Deans

The report recommended that the Faculty Council be consulted in the choice of future deans. "Many" of the Fainsod Committee members, it added, "believe that in due course all senior deanships might ideally be filled by members of the teaching Faculty." Not all present deans teach.

Turning to the question of Faculty membership. the Fainsod Committee suggested "that future additions to the Faculty be limited ordinarily to those holding teaching and research appointments, and exceptions to this rule be recommended by the dean of the Faculty only after consultation with the Faculty Council."