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...calendar proposal that would move first-semester exams before winter break received a mixed response at yesterday’s meeting of the Faculty Council, members who attended said...
Professor of the History of Science Everett I. Mendelsohn, a Faculty Council member, said that professors raised a number of concerns in response to the report by the University Committee on Calendar Reform, which was charged with synchronizing school calendars across Harvard...
...report, adopted by the calendar committee in an 18-1 vote, recommends that all of Harvard’s 10 faculties begin the academic year immediately after Labor Day, begin Thanksgiving vacation the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, and start the second semester after a month-long intersession in January. Under the new system, commencement would take place in late May rather than in June...
...Given the trend toward greater cross-registration and collaboration...the current lack of calendar coordination imposes unnecessary barriers, such as varying instructional start dates, examination periods, and spring recess dates,” the report says...
...added that the calendar committee’s focus on facilitating cross-registration might not benefit undergraduates...