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Despite the 9-0 CUE vote--with one abstention--in favor of the ERG plan, Davis said he will still propose and support his plan before the Faculty Council next week, because he believes students should take four A.P. exams to replace the four full-year Harvard courses they will miss by accepting sophomore standing...
Davis said he expects some Council support for this reason...
Glen W. Bowersock '57, associate dean of the Faculty on undergraduate education, and chairman of CUE, said yesterday he will represent the ERG plan before the council. Davis did not present a persuasive case, Bowersock said, adding Davis might have evidence that four AP exams qualified students more for sophomore standing than three exams, but "I didn...
...that women's colleges--mostly small four-year institutions on the eastern seaboard--are getting trampled on. "The federal run of things is complicated enough so that specific interests are being lost," says Donna L. Shavlik, associate director of the Office of Women in Higher Education of the American Council on Education. Marcia K. Sharp '68, director of the Women's College Coalition, a Washington-based amalgam of 67 single-sex institutions, agrees with Shavlik's assessment. The coalition, says Sharp, needs "to spearhead a better understanding of what the positive elements" of women's colleges are. Sharp says that...
...Harris and HEW's liaisons with women's colleges, says. "If they have a personal relationship, that helps," Karnovsky adds. While federal officials do not normally think of women's colleges as lobbyists, "President Horner is listened to as an individual," Joy Simonson, director of the National Advisory Council on women's Education, says. In essence, stature opens the path...