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...Glen W. Bowersock '57, chairman of CUE and associate dean of undergraduate education, says CUE has not met yet because the Faculty Council only recently announced which of its members have volunteered this year to sit on CUE, which is composed of five Faculty Council members and five students from the Educational Resources Group (ERG). Since the Faculty Council members are elected in May of the preceding academic year, it would seem logical to assign faculty to the CUE at the same time. But Charles P. Whitlock, associate dean of the Faculty, who assigns Faculty Council members to subcommittees such...
...Council stayed behind and on May 23 voted almost unanimously to reject the CUE plan. The sole dissenting vote came from the CUE Faculty member who presented the proposal. "The issue is dead," Glen W. Bowersock '57, associate dean of undergraduate education and a guest member of the Council, says firmly. Some never knew the issue was alive. Connie F. Magistrelli, director of the Office on Special Programs--which directs all students who apply for study abroad credit--says, "I never heard about...
Before the CUE & Co. began debating the study abroad program, even fewer knew any Harvard option existed for going overseas for credit. "Until recently, many students and a certain number of faculty members were unaware of the program," Bowersock says. Robert J. Ginn Jr., director of the Office of Career Services and Off-Campus Learning, agrees and adds, "It's a lot easier now than it was ten years ago. Back then, it rarely happened at all." In the past five years, however, an average of 70 students have joined study abroad programs annually...
...relieve their administrative anxieties, Bowersock volunteered to convert his office into a base for clearing institutions whose academic credibility is in question. He would in turn contact professors who would judge whether the foreign university's credentials meet Harvard standards. Bowersock does not believe his desk would be "piled with requests for obscure universities in Paraguay." Statistics bear this out; almost everyone still wants to spend a year at Oxford or the Sorbonne. In either case, "quality control," as the Council members are fond of calling it, is not at stake...
...application form for independent work was also revised last spring to make it clear to students just "what independent work was to be," Bowersock said. In a meeting last March, Dean Fox and Bowersock told the CUE that abuse of independent work credit had increased. Students were pursuing extracurricular, not academic studies, and credit was being allowed for studies that failed to meet the original independent work requirements...