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...Both the UC and a 2003–2004 committee chaired by Pforzheimer University Professor Sidney Verba ’53 proposed a calendar that would move fall exams before break and end the academic year in May. But while the Verba report endorsed a January “J-term,” the UC report argued instead for a shorter period between semesters and an earlier end date...
...does approve changes to the calendar, students would still have a long wait before they can enjoy stress-free winter breaks and easy cross-registration at the University’s 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 recommendation, the changes will take at least two years to implement, according to Secretary of the Faculty David B. Fithian...
...Although the calendar reforms proposed by the Verba committee have gained unanimous support from deans across the University, some members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences remain skeptical about the benefits and have voiced concern about Bok’s decision not to put changes 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. But the University is not run for the convenience of the Faculty,” 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 changes to a vote by describing calendar reform as “a University-wide question which affects everyone at the University and not a single Faculty alone...