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...Scanlon said that he would not support changing the calendar without first knowing what the specific proposed changes were...
...Calendar reform has been a perennial issue at Harvard. In September 2003, then-University President Lawrence H. Summers, Provost Steven E. Hyman, and the University’s deans publicly supported a universal calendar for Harvard’s schools and announced the creation of Verba’s cross-school committee to “consider and propose calendar guidelines applicable to Harvard as a whole...
...months later, the committee published a report embracing a University-wide calendar with a “4-1-4” schedule—two four-month semesters, with a ‘J-term’ in between. The new calendar would begin after Labor Day and would end in late May, making it slightly longer than the current academic year. But in the last two years of Summers’ tenure, the conversation on calendar reform stalled as the Faculty of Arts and Sciences tackled the general education portion of the curricular review...
...With the general education portion of the review closing in on its completion this spring, the UC released a 10,000 word position paper in early April documenting their proposed calendar configuration and arguing that the current calendar is harmful to students’ mental health. A UC-sponsored undergraduate referendum on calendar reform followed, in which 84 percent of the 3,467 students who participated voted in favor of the Council’s proposal. The UC plan drew heavily upon that of the Verba report, but it did not endorse a J-term, instead citing language from...
...said on Friday that he waited until late in his tenure as interim president to discuss calendar reform because “several precipitating events occurred late in the year,” including the completion of the general education portion of the undergraduate curricular review...