Word: cue
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decrease in the number of students pursuing independent work is due to the faculty and Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) decision to evaluate more closely student proposals for independent work, Glen W. Bowersock '57, associate dean of the Faculty for undergraduate education, said yesterday...
...application form for independent work was also revised last spring to make it clear to students just "what independent work was to be," Bowersock said. In a meeting last March, Dean Fox and Bowersock told the CUE that abuse of independent work credit had increased. Students were pursuing extracurricular, not academic studies, and credit was being allowed for studies that failed to meet the original independent work requirements...
...addition, CUE leaders said several professors were signing applications for "frivolous" independent work...
Some members of the CUE argued against putting too many restrictions on independent work, calling it a necessary opportunity for students not served by Harvard's curriculum. Others, including Educational Resources Group member Peter M. Engel '81, argued that it was "a ludicrous reflection on a Harvard education...
...CUE tightened guidelines for approving independent work proposals by requiring a student's senior tutor to sign each proposal, as well as a faculty member providing a double-check on the validity of a student' proposal...