Word: cep
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...interview yesterday, Dean Rosovsky bemoaned the passing of the Committee on Educational Policy (CEP), a high-level Faculty group that was supplanted five years ago by the Faculty Council...
Under the CEP, Rosovsky said, "there was closer supervision of education than there is now"--things like new courses and requirements. He said he may consider bringing back some ongoing educational review board...
...CEP held quiet court but failed to produce any conclusions based upon its hearings into the matter. In early November, however, the HRPC called for the abolition of ROTC's academic status...
Through the fall, the CEP had heard testimony from nearly every group that had any connection with ROTC. Only the Harvard Young Republicans claimed that the CEP had ignored them. And despite the political nature of some of the testimony it heard, the CEP remained concerned primarily with academic principles: whether ROTC courses deserved credit, and what effect the removal of credit would have on the ROTC program...
...CEP resolution that evolved would have forced all ROTC courses and professors to reapply individually for academic status through any of Harvard's existing departments. James Q. Wilson, professor of Government, who was to present the CEP recommendation to the Faculty, suggested that the plan would be as effective as the SFAC plan in abolishing credit. After all, he asked, "What department would approve the courses?" But the comment reportedly made by Col. Robert H. Pell, professor of Military Science and director of Army ROTC, that the CEP resolution "couldn't have pleased me more" made ROTC opponents uneasy about...