Faculty power versus student power

No one questions the right of faculty to participate actively in the academic decisions of American colleges and universities. Few, I suspect, question the equal desirability of student participation. Students can bring to academic decisions a freshness of opinion, an undiluted critical appraisal, and an evaluation of the academic institutions of the majority who constitute its chief clients and indeed its only reason for being. Furthermore, there is educational merit in student participation in academic decision making. Students who participate actively and regularly on university committees find their experience contributing greatly to their maturation

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