Word: calendaring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...includes a revision of the school's academic calendar from a two-term to a 30-week system with a four to six week orientation session. This early session, called "Foundations," consists of short classes designed to enhance basic skills...
...calendar also attempts to incorporate career development with personal improvement learning focused on changing behavior. Under the plan, the second-year curriculum will change to concentrate on organizational behavior and field-based learning...
...main reason why the plan--approved almost unanimously by the council and endorsed by Registrar Georgene R. Herschbach-was shot down? Faculty members thought the new calendar's benefits for the students contradicted their own needs...
...fact, one member said the new calendar would be "inhumane" to professor with hectic lives...
...students, the new calendar would have started classes the day after Labor Day. December at Harvard would have consisted mostly of reading period and exams and students would have enjoyed a five week winter break lasting through most of January...