Instead, students can apply to speak at graduation, and a faculty panel will select two winners.
But he also promised to convene a faculty panel to review Harvard's policies for investigating misconduct cases.
In November, a faculty panel proposed deep cuts to the ethnic studies programs, including the John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Students, the Center for Asian American Studies and the Center for Mexican American Studies.
B1 Dispute Rattles Columbia Columbia University has created a faculty panel to hear accounts from students and faculty members in order to sort out a virulent dispute that has rattled the university: A supposed intimidation of Jewish students by pro-Palestinian professors.
At Columbia University, the Middle East and Asian languages and cultures department has begun the new term facing a faculty panel hearing complaints by Jewish students against what they say is intimidation by pro-Palestinian professors.
After having three ombudsmen offer regular critiques of its journalistic content, ESPN's work will be scrutinized for the next 18 months by a faculty panel from the Poynter Institute.
Nonetheless, the president of Harvard, Lawrence H. Summers, and many faculty members are concerned enough about what they call the compression of grades -- a problem that makes it difficult to distinguish excellent work from work that is merely good -- that the faculty panel has been looking into the causes of the inflation and what to do about it.
Dr. Stepien filed a grievance after her tenure denial, and the faculty panel that reviewed the case said her male colleagues -- there were no tenured women in the department then -- might not have been comfortable with Dr. Stepien's "demanding and assertive" style.
As a part of the course, we each led a discussion session on a topic and got a faculty panel together to discuss the issues.
