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...does approve a change to the calendar, students might still have a long wait before stress-free winter breaks and easier enrollment at other schools. Any large-scale changes to the calendar must be approved by the Harvard Corporation, the University's executive governing body, which is set to meet on June 6. If the Corporation approves Bok's decision, the changes will likely take several years to implement...
...Though calendar reform has gained unanimous support from deans across the University, some members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences remain skeptical about its benefits and have voiced concern over Bok’s decision not to put it to a vote by the University’s faculties...
...seems to me likely that calendar change will involve a cost to the faculty, for one reason because it is likely to involve a net lengthening of the academic year,” Alford Professor of Natural Religion Thomas M. Scanlon Jr. wrote in an e-mailed statement. “Given that the case for calendar change should be based on its academic advantages, it is the kind of thing that should be voted on by the faculties that would be affected...
...explained his decision not to submit the issue to a vote by describing calendar reform as “a University-wide question which affects everyone at the University and not a single Faculty alone...
...Scanlon said that he would not support changing the calendar without first knowing what the specific changes were...