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Although faculties insist on governing themselves, they grant little prestige to a member who actively participates in college or university government.

There are, nevertheless, several things that the president can do to stimulate participation and to enhance the prestige of those who are willing to exercise their privilege.

He can, for example, present significant university-wide issues to the senate.

He can encourage quality in faculty committee work in various ways: by seeing to it that the membership of each committee represents the thoughtful as well as the action-oriented faculty ; ;

by making certain that no faculty member has too many committee assignments ; ;

by assuring good liaison between the committees and the administration ; ;

by minimizing the number of committees.