Our students in all their existing diversity will cheerfully celebrate the rites of spring. Underneath the picture, however, the fabric of the canvas is deteriorating. Since the previous administration, the faculty has been progressively degraded by a persistent, creeping regimentation. Some examples almost at random include compulsory form filling. Secretarial services are now limited to administrators.
Student evaluations are now single-mindedly applied.
The Faculty Club, once the haven of faculty social and intellectual interaction, has been reduced to something akin to a Horn and Hardart operation. Even more serious is the systematic exclusion of the faculty from the governance of the University. Under President Meyerson the plenary meetings of the Faculty Senate were frequent and well attended. Following this pattern SAS meetings were reduced from four to three a year. Meanwhile when committees were set up, they were rarely based on academic qualifications.