Light and Rand, p.33
In class, break into small-group “admissions committees.” Name a committee chair to lead your
discussion and a secretary to record the committee’s minutes.
1.
In your committees, first compile a list of all of the relevant considerations or
factors that each of you identified in response to the first task described above. Then,
discuss each factor and decide, as a committee (i.e., by majority vote; chair can break a
tie vote), whether to use that factor in evaluating the five applicants. (Although your
committee can decide to weight or score the factors you choose, it may be best to keep it
simple in order to complete the exercise in the allotted time.) Write a brief explanation of
how your committee decided on which factors to consider (i.e., why were the factors you
chose relevant and why were the factors you decided against less relevant or irrelevant?).
This task should take about 25 minutes.
2.
Once your committee has decided on the factors you will consider in evaluating
the applicants, discuss each of the applicants. Decide, as a committee, whether to admit
each applicant (sorry, wait-listing is not an option). The secretary should tally and record
the votes on each candidate. This task should take about 25 minutes. At the end of class,
we’ll compare the committee results.
After class, each committee should hand in its “minutes” (i.e., the “master” compilation of all
suggested factors, the “final” list of factors agreed on by the committee, the brief explanatory
paragraph on choosing the factors, and the committee’s votes on each of the five applicants).
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