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Wolfson Professor of Jewish Studies Jay M. Harris, the co-chair of Overall Academic Experience, said the University-wide committee??s decision to make way for a J-term was not intended to force the College to institute...
...calendar reform committee??s report will be discussed by the Faculty at its April 20 meeting, which will foreshadow the discussion of the curricular review report, which is scheduled to take place...
...does not have to be this way. The committee??s recommendation outlines in detail a shift in the timing of fall semester exams from January to December, which is primarily made possible by beginning the year earlier in September. With the exception of our equally foolish friends at Princeton, the other American universities with whom we are regularly classed follow this kind of calendar, and we can follow their lead. The calendar proposed by the committee places the first day of classes immediately after Labor Day and includes a reading and an exam period that concludes...
...greatest improvement of the proposed calendar, there are additional benefits. The committee has also recommended that the Wednesday before Thanksgiving be included as a holiday and noted the possibility of taking the entire Thanksgiving week off from school, which the University administration should definitely explore when reviewing the committee??s report. The proposed calendar also includes an earlier start and a much earlier finish to the Spring semester, with exams finishing at least a week sooner in May. This extra time at the start of the Summer introduces a welcome degree of flexibility in our pursuit of jobs...
...committee??s co-chair Eric N. Jacobsen told the Faculty in December that his committee had begun by evaluating four possible paradigms of general education: an open system, such as Brown University’s, a “Great Books” model such as Columbia’s, an open distribution requirement like that of Yale and a closed distribution requirement like the current Core curriculum...