Word: calendaring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...council's proposal to reform the academic calendar to complete fall examinations before the winter recess was pushed through the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE), although the Faculty Council ultimately rejected it last month (please see related story, this page...
...proposed calendar "seemed uncomfortable for professors," said Assistant Professor of the Classic Cynthia Damon. After all, as Skocpol noted, "We all have quality of life issues to think about...
This attitude was evident most recently at a meeting of the Faculty Council, just three weeks ago. There, the assembled professors were scheduled to discuss a student proposal to reform the academic calendar...
More galling even than the brusque, insensitive manner in which the calendar reform proposal was killed was the arrogant, self-serving Faculty logic underlying the move. Explained Dean for Undergraduate Education Lawrence Buell, "The Faculty Council seemed to feel that any major change in the status quo should not be entered into without a clear-cut advantage presenting itself in the proposed new arrangement...
...Calendar reform is the most recent, but by no means the only issue on which students have expressed concerns that were either brushed aside or utterly ignored by professors and administrators. On other matters of consequence either to the University as a whole, or merely to individual constituencies, the new administration has refused to change long-held policies...