Word: audits
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...heart of the Harvard Policy Committee's Department Audit Plan is the provision that calls for the HPC to study and report on each department every four years. According to the present guidelines, the reports will assess strengths and weaknesses of the departments and evaluate individual courses and instructors. If the situation warrants, the HPC will recommend specific changes, such as the addition of new middle-level courses, possible reforms in tutorials or examinations, or perhaps even shifts in concentration requirements...
...most exciting effort so far has been the Educational Audit proposal, which set up a regular HPC subcommittee to review, and issue reports on, the curriculam and rules of each department every four years. Under Evan Davis, the subcommittee has already enlisted the services of a number of capable students and the cooperation of many of the department chairman and senior tutors. With this proposal, the HPC has found an excellent way of reaching to the heart of Harvard's educational system. If the momentum already built up continues, this subcommittee could have a lasting effect on course offerings...
...dean called student evaluation "the best single index for the assessment of young teachers. He mentioned two ways of communicating opinions, the Harvard Policy Committee's Departmental Audit plan, and student communication with department chairmen...
...services for people over 65 must be administered by state agencies and private "carriers"-including insurance companies, voluntary associations and group health plans. Such organizations will determine the amount of money owed by the beneficiaries to hospitals, doctors and nursing homes, will actually make the payments, audit the records and set up review groups. After the program goes into effect next July, these private carriers will handle $3.5 billion in medicare funds during the first year...
Harvard College, of course, permits any student to audit any course, and has never been fussy about permitting outsiders in either. Courses are closed to auditors when their enrollment is too large, but this rarely happens. Many students come to the Summer School to get rid of a requirement and would like to hear some of the outstanding lecturers who are here--not to audit all their lectures, but to drop by once in awhile. It would be nice of the Summer School to let us do this without paying $15 or $60 for the privilege. Edward J. Leonard