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...months before he would leave Mass. Hall, Bok threw his hat into the ring. He said on Friday that he waited until late in his tenure as interim president to discuss calendar reform because “several precipitating events occurred late in the year,” including the curricular review...
...Verba also served as the go-to man for dealing with many hot-button Harvard topics, responding to contoversies over ROTC, the calendar, and faculty hiring, and mending fences after Lawrence H. Summers’ presidency...
...admissions season wasn’t the only calendar item under reconsideration...
...With the future of general education still uncertain and multiple deanships vacant, Bok took on another consequential project when he reopened a University-wide debate on calendar reform. With just a month left in his tenure, Bok said last week that he would decide whether to overhaul the calendar this week. As this story went to press, a decision had not yet been announced, but the idea of changing the calendar had gained the support of President-elect Drew G. Faust, the University’s deans, and many students...
Interim University President Derek C. Bok announced today that Harvard’s governing boards had approved his recommendation to create a reformed, University-wide calendar.The new calendar configuration will be modeled on a proposal—initially advanced by a 2003–2004 committee chaired by Pforzheimer University Professor Sidney Verba ’53—to begin classes shortly after Labor Day, to move fall exams before winter break, and to end the academic year in May.Implementation of the changes is set for the 2009-2010 academic year, to give Harvard’s 11 schools...