Word: audits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...success has been its departmental audits. "This strikes me as being the real payoff. There is nothing like it anywhere," Dean Monro, one of the HPC's staunchest allies, has said. When this program was originally set up during the HPC's first year, chairman Michael E. Abram '66 and audit committee chairman Evan Davis '66 planned to investigate seven departments a year, so that each department would be reviewed every four years...
...task was not quite so easy. Audits are conducted in subcommittees, one for each department. There is usually an HPC member on each subcommittee, and the other members are concentrators in the department; the HPC audit subcommittee chairman oversees the program. Since the administrative structure and general attitude of departments vary widely, a new audit has few precedents to rely on. And the time-consuming work involved must come from students who themselves have no stake in the HPC. As a result, only six audits have been completed (Government, Applied Math, Chemistry, English, Biology, and Classics), with varying degrees...
Government Audit...
...audit, presented last week to the department, the HPC's subcommittee on the Classics proposed making the elementary courses harder and requiring all concentrators to take honors general examinations...
...said that though-under the A-plan students may be tempted to take a course solely for the high grade, under the F-plan serious students will be discouraged from taking a course they are seriously interested in. Happily, such students may choose to audit the course rather than take it for a grade. To be sure, if most teachers adopt the F-plan, there will not be many non-F-plan courses with which to fill up a required schedule. But then all students will be in a similar situation, and hence will not be discouraged from taking...