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IV-F. Graduate
Student Member of the Internal Committee to an Administrative Official
Concerning the Distribution of the Eight-Year Review to Graduate Students
Sent: Sun, 16
Jul 2000 10:17:49 -0800
Luisa,
I'm
writing to see how we might be able to distribute the Slavic review report
(including the various responses
from the department and responses to responses, etc.) to all of the
students in Slavic. While I have
made this recommendation before to Harold, Duncan, and Dean Yu, it seems even
more necessary now.
Obviously, this situation is quite different from most reviews and the
comments from students on the review are
more important and more likely to come than with most reviews. In order for students to know what's
going on and to feel confidence that they are being included in the process,
they should be directly informed.
The need for distributing
copies to each graduate student is even greater now given that the departmental
chair has been e-mailing selected materials that support his position to
graduate students and then asking for their response. Clearly, they need to have a full picture of things before
they can really respond.
In
addition, the departmental copy of the review has apparently been in the hands
of a faculty member for a number of days and is thus not readily
available. In any case, there is
some understandable nervousness about having to ask for the copy in the first
place so as not to appear overly interested in it. I realize that students can contact you or Harold directly
to get copies. But if people are
unfamiliar with the process or with either of you, they are less likely to do so. I think that the Senate should be
facilitating the flow of information on this issue that greatly affects
students rather than putting the onus on them.
E-mail seems somewhat impractical given the size of the documents
involved. Thus, I think it would
be best to mail copies of the
report directly to students' home addresses. But perhaps there is another distribution
alternative. In any case, I would
hope that distribution could occur relatively soon as discussions are
continuing in the department.
As
soon as you get a chance, please let me know how we might proceed on this.
I
hope you're having a good summer.
Best,
Mark
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