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...couple of weeks ago, the University Committee on Calendar Reform made public its final recommendations for a new academic calendar at Harvard. Lost to some extent in the frenzied push to Spring break, the committee’s recommendations have the potential to change life at Harvard and to change it for the better. As one of the undergraduates on the committee, I will tell...
...discuss the merits of the proposal for a January term, and so we’re not in a position to say whether that more fundamental change would be good or bad,” Friedman wrote. “It makes no sense to change the FAS calendar to pave the way for a curriculum change we haven’t decided to make...
...Faculty don’t want to start before Labor Day,” he said, adding that some professors may choose not to advise undergraduates if it impacts their vacations. “I’d be very wary of a change in the calendar that makes us have a worse advising system than at present,” he said...
Although the Faculty is set to discuss calendar reform at its April 20 meeting, the Harvard Corporation, the higher of the University’s two governing boards, is ultimately responsible for setting the University’s calendar and approving any changes...
...contrast, there’s very little original thinking in this year’s much-hyped review. If we’re lucky, we’ll come out of this “overhaul” with a revised calendar structure, touched-up core requirements and improvements to advising. A few dramatic suggestions have been floated, but none really speaks to the core issues of education, and none is original—for instance a January term and the possibility of dropping grades for first-years (both already at MIT). Of course, those suggestions aren?...