Enthusiasm

In their enthusiasm to become involved in community affairs, have students forgotten the university? Quite the contrary, according to the editorial writer of the University of Michigan campus newspaper.

"Students are more concerned than ever about the role and meaning of the university both for students and the rest of society, and likewise are eager to become more involved in the university at all levels.

"In the same report, NSA recommended that 'students should be more responsibly involved in the management of college affairs, such as in helping to identify effective teachers and rewarding them with tenure.

"Not only in rewarding teachers, but in all areas and at all levels, from departmental to administrative, students are demanding a more important voice in the decision-making processes of the university."

And in this demand, they are being supported by educators like Harold Taylor, author and past president of Sarah Lawrence College (New York), who agrees that they should be actively involved in their own education. The Minnesota Daily student newspaper reported the views expressed by Dr. Taylor at a recent journalism conference:

"Students — particularly those in teachers' olleges—should be involved in arts, politics or current events of any sort. Use the world as a campus. Two years of living abroad or tutoring slum children or working in rural areas would be ideal, he said.