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Already, there have been efforts to increase the size of the Faculty. Chopra says this would bring about only good things: smaller classes, more courses offered, expanded research opportunities and better thesis advising...
...Within the next five years, the Faculty will realize that students are not leaving the gates with the kind of liberal education they should have,” says Rohit Chopra ’04, a member of CUE and chair of the Undergraduate Council’s Student Affairs Committee. Benedict H. Gross, who is Leverett professor of mathematics and chair of the Core’s Quantitative Reasoning subcommittee, wagers that “there will be some mutation of the Core.” One could argue that this has already begun, as the Faculty considers reducing...
...Chopra goes further, predicting the death of the Core and its replacement by something that looks more like a distribution requirement, a change that doesn’t seem monumental but will allow students to choose from a broader and more diverse group of classes...
Kiely can’t envision an effective advising system that doesn’t utilize resident tutors. “It’s one of the uniquely good things about Harvard,” he says. Chopra concurs and points out that with the current real estate market in Cambridge, grad students have ample incentive to apply for the job. This competition for spots in the Houses results in a group of tutors who are extremely qualified. Most Faculty members and administrators seem to agree that the tutor system will stay essentially the same, with a few small...
...subject of the Houses themselves, on the other hand, sparks no such consensus. There is a wide range of opinions and predictions regarding the role that Houses will play in the future. Chopra feels the loosely-knit House communities are still recovering from randomization. With the implementation of the lottery, facilities have to be equalized to “better reflect each House being a microcosm of the whole College...