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...Calendar reform has been a perennial issue at Harvard but has not reached fruition in recent years. 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 a cross-school committee to “consider and propose calendar guidelines applicable to Harvard as a whole...
...months later, the committee, chaired by Pforzheimer University Professor Sidney Verba '53, published a report embracing a University-wide calendar with a "4-1-4" schedule—two four-month semesters and a January term in the middle. But in the last two years of Summers’ tenure, the conversation on calendar reform stalled as the Faculty of Arts and Sciences tackled a curricular review...
...This spring, the UC organized an undergraduate referendum on calendar reform. Of the 3,467 students who participated, 84 percent voted in favor of the UC's proposal. Unlike the Verba report, the UC did not endorse a one-month term in the middle of the year...
...said on Friday that he waited until late in his tenure as 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...
...does propose a specific calendar, it is likely to be inspired by the Verba report, which received approval from the University's deans in April...