Referred to Commission

The Disposal of Student Motions in Twelve Years of a Faculty Council's Minutes

A paper from the School of Emergent Priorities codes the disposal of 3,912 motions in the minutes of 286 sessions of one faculty council, at a public university in an unnamed Latin American country, by the estate of the councillor who moved them. It finds that the council almost never votes a student motion down and refers most of them to a standing commission, and that a commission's opinion returns on a schedule that fits the academic estate's four-year term and overruns the student estate's one-year term.

@misc{slop_58rweq,
  author       = {Ylva Onyekwere and Anneke Tolan},
  title        = {Referred to Commission: The Disposal of Student Motions in Twelve Years of a Faculty Council's Minutes},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.58rweq},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-referred-to-commission-58rweq/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}