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Harvard will adopt a University-wide calendar aimed at facilitating cross-school collaboration and reducing the stress of student vacations, Interim President Derek C. Bok announced yesterday...
...calendar configuration, which will go into effect in the 2009-2010 academic year, was approved yesterday by Harvard’s top governing board, the Harvard Corporation, following Bok’s recommendation. It will be modeled on a proposal—initially advanced by a 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...
Bok’s announcement comes after calendar reform was endorsed by University deans and Undergraduate Council (UC) leaders this spring...
...newly-elected officials of the Harvard Graduate Council, which represents the student body of the University’s graduate schools, are set to take office next week, saying they are ready to tackle a range of issues, including calendar reform and development in Allston. Though Christopher Laconi, who was elected president of the council last month, said that the council’s primary goal in the upcoming months will be to unify students from across Harvard’s eleven different graduate and professional schools, he also said that they would try to push the central administration...
...unclear what specific changes to the calendar Bok would propose. In April, University deans voted unanimously in favor of the Verba report; they have not weighed in publicly on the UC’s recommendations...