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...past deficiencies through legislation proposed by Glen W. Bowersock '57, associate dean of the Faculty for undergraduate education, requiring professors to teach more tutorials. The major portion of the legislation simply recognizes the longstanding but blantantly disregarded legislation passed in 1958 requiring that no more than 30 per cent of a department's tutors be teaching fellows and no less than 30 per cent be full time Faculty members...
...area that Congress cut in this year's budget and one that might decline or even disappear in future years is the National Direct Student Loan program (NDSL), an alternative that offers students loans at 3 per cent interest, as opposed to the 7 per cent Harvard charges on its own loans. Across the nation, NDSL has been plagued by students defaulting on their loans, and Congress dislikes the program. Nor did a 60 Minutes expose of the NDSL's problems in the fall help its reputation. Next year, Harvard will receive $440,000 in NDSL funds, 26 per cent...
...number of accepted students who actually attend--of middle-income students. Before the PLP the yield among students in this range was about ten percentage points lower than other groups, but the PLP has brought middle-income attendence closer to the overall overage of just over 75 per cent...
Harvard administrators, however, are building their hopes for financial independence on student employment. Congress has more than doubled funding for the College Work Study Program, granting $2 million to Harvard and $400,000 to Radcliffe in 1979-80. CWSP provides a subsidy of 80 per cent of students' salaries for jobs with non-profit organizations, including Harvard. Lawrence E. Maguire '58, director of student employment, says the program has doubled in the past three years and probably will double again next year. CWSP funds are available only to students on financial aid. About 1500 Harvard and Radcliffe students took jobs...
These accomplishments, however, were shadowed by a host of internal and organizational problems. Low attendance plagued the assembly--over the year, attendance hovered between under the 50 per cent quorum and about 70 per cent. This show of apathy fueled students' criticism of assembly members as "resume-stuffers," but Pfeffer noted that "committees are where the real work is done, and they are almost always well-attended...