The Calm Faculty

The Faculty Council hammered out a preliminary agenda this week for the April Faculty meeting. The April meeting will be the Faculty's second this semester--the council called off the March meeting because there was no new legislation ready for voting--and the Faculty apparently will deal with only a few fairly minor issues.

Included are approval of the final report of the Committee on Terms and Titles, which clarifies the fine distinctions between Harvard's confusing welter of titles, and a proposed change in the nominating procedure for this spring's Faculty Council election, reducing the number of sponsors needed for nomination to the council to five for non-tenured and ten for tenured Faculty members.