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...think there’s a general sense that we’re eager to get the committee??s reports, which I gather are provisional,” she says. “We’re moving into the more exciting phase of curricular planning...
...although no students serve on the general steering committee??the “traffic cop” which Mahan says makes all the final decisions—members seem to have found their place alongside the professors...
After a semester-long process of so-called debate and deliberation, the Harvard University Committee on Calendar Reform finally released its recommendations in late March. Charged with finding ways to coordinate the academic schedules of Harvard’s many schools to facilitate cross-registration, the Committee??s chief proposal is to move final exams to before winter break throughout Harvard. Four out of nine of Harvard’s schools already use such a schedule, and the committee??s bias—as well as the bias of University President Lawrence H. Summers?...
What to do with January is the biggest question stemming from the Committee??s report; the proposal suggests that each school should develop its own offerings to best suit its students’ needs and interests. The four Harvard schools with January free offer few clues to finding the right solution. The School of Public Health offers a variety of non-credit enrichment activities as well as electives and chances to do field research. The Kennedy School of Government often uses January as an extension of fall term—assigning research papers or take-home exams that...
...real problem here is the Committee??s unwillingness to question the schedules of the other schools at Harvard. The four schools with J-terms and finals before winter break have been treated as prototypes, yet the superiority of their schedules is still in question. Although it appears December finals are all but inevitable, it does not follow that the other five schools—the College included—should have to shape their calendars on the mold of the other four. Cross-registration alone does not merit trashing the schedules of five Harvard schools...