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Faculty Vote May 16, 2001
VOTING RESULTS
The four final curricular proposals from the CEP appeared as 13 individual ballot questions, which were voted on at Faculty Meeting on May 16, 2001. As is tradition at Williams, a 60% majority of the faculty vote is required for any significant curricular change to be enacted. Consequently, only those proposals that received a 60% "yes" vote will move toward implementation.
A total of 193 ballots were cast, including 33 absentee ballots. The percent of "yes" votes were as follows:
Signature Tutorial Program
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Tutorial Expansion
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82% (155 yes; 33 no)
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Experiential Education
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Experiential Education at Williams
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61% (114 yes; 74 no)
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Williams in New York Program
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67% (125 yes; 62 no)
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Interdisciplinary Initiatives
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Institute Model
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21% (40 yes; 149 no)
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Team-Teaching Model
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69% (130 yes; 58 no)
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Free Agent Model
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56% (106 yes; 83 no)
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Skills and Contents Requirements
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Writing
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82% (156 yes; 35 no)
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Speaking
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59% (114 yes; 79 no)
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Quantitative/Formal Reasoning
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60% (114 yes; 76 no)
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Foreign Language Proficiency
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48% (91 yes; 100 no)
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Contemporary Social Justice
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45% (85 yes; 103 no)
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ABOLISH the Swim Test
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33% (63 yes; 127 no)
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Result: the Swim Test requirement will be retained.
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Physical Education
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Maintain at eight quarters
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30% (#1-57, #2-60, #3-62)
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Reduce to four quarters
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47% (#1-87, #2-94, #3-0)
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Eliminate entirely
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23% (#1-43, #2-23, #3-110)
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Result: Based on the number of #1 votes, 70% of the faculty voted
to change the current physical education requirement. Accordingly, the votes of those
who voted to maintain it were redistributed to their second choice, resulting in a clear
preference for reduction to four quarters rather than elimination (reduce - 77%,
eliminate - 23%).
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