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This is a place to post solutions to the administrative problems MIT faces. All ideas all welcome, and with enough community involvement we can come up with the ideal technocracy for MIT. 

For each idea, please post the benefits associated with that idea.

==Administrative transparency and Metrics for Success==
All substantial administrative  initiatives must have a clearly defined objective, set of goals, measures for success, and estimated cost that must be made public to the MIT community.
===Benefits===
This will help increase transparency lead to more well-reasoned and fairly debated policy initiatives.

==Checks and Balances==
Any action can only be acted upon by the administration if and only if it has received a majority support from the constituents of which it affects.  Therefore, all students, alumni, and faculty would have the opportunity to vote and agree or disagree with the proposed action. 

===Benefits===
This would increase student/alumni/faculty involvement in the community and force the administration to abide by the majority interests. Hopefully, this would filter out bad initiatives faster. 

==Ability to petition==
Students, Alumni, and Faculty (SAF) could also petition the administration to revoke a certain policy or enact a new one. SAF feedback must be incorporated in the evaluation of actions when deciding an action’s success.

===Benefits===
Ensure SAF participation in the administrative process

==Public forum==
There should also be a public place (wiki) for any member of the MIT community to list complaints or current problems, which administrators must respond to.
 
===Benefits===
Increases transparency and allows SAF to give feedback

==Organizational Clarity and accountability== There should be a clear organization chart available to all MIT community for accountability and accessibility. MIT staff and administrators work for both the institute and for students and should ultimately be responsible for answering their questions clearly, promptly, and respectfully. There have also been myriad examples of administrative arrogance and dishonesty that absolutely must be held to account; perhaps The Tech or the UA should host a version of this organizational chart with substantiated examples and changed positions to make staff accountable for their actions.  

===Benefits===

==Look within MIT for answers==
Have 17, 15, TPP, ESD etc. classes focus on improving MIT society. These problems are so challenging because they are so complex. Giving students the ability to fully evaluate these questions and come up with recommendations is excellent experience and could prove enormously valuable to MIT. Why is the MIT Dining office seeking the help of a consultant to decide on a new strategy when well-reasoned student approaches and analyses have been done?  Why isn’t the dining office staffed with those who are capable enough to do these analyses?

===Benefits===
Gets MIT and motivated students involved

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