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Dean of the Kennedy School of Government David T. Ellwood wrote in an e-mailed statement yesterday that he would “enthusiastically embrace calendar reform...
...implementation of a University-wide calendar would require FAS, the Divinity School, the Graduate School of Design, and the Graduate School of Education—all of which currently hold exams after winter break—to make the most drastic changes to their calendars. —Brenda C. Maldonado contributed to the reporting of this story. —Staff writer Laurence H. M. Holland can be reached at lholland@fas.harvard.edu. —Staff writer Madeline W. Lissner can be reached at mlissner@fas.harvard.edu...
...writing to solicit your views on the issue of University calendar reform and to apprise you of recent developments regarding this subject...
...many of you know, in 2003-04, the issue of calendar reform was considered by a University-wide committee chaired by Professor Sidney Verba that included representatives from each of the Harvard Faculties. In charging the committee, the president, provost, and deans affirmed their desire to move toward a set of calendar guidelines that would place Harvard's Schools on a more uniform academic schedule and enable students and faculty members to cross Harvard's internal borders with greater ease. After carefully analyzing and weighing the potential benefits and complexities of calendar reform, the committee produced a detailed report proposing...
Within the past month, now that the review of undergraduate education is nearing an end (and with the other curricular reviews pending in 2004 having been concluded), the question of calendar reform has emerged once again. The deans have discussed the issue and concluded unanimously, as they did three years ago, that the Verba committee's proposal to achieve greater uniformity of academic calendars across Harvard would advance the interests of the University as a whole. The Harvard Overseers have expressed a similar view. More recently still, the Undergraduate Council has issued a report on the subject and conducted...