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Despite misgivings from some members of the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE), Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby confirmed at yesterday’s CUE meeting that he intends to go ahead with a plan for early course registration beginning next year...
Kirby’s proposed system of preregistration would retain shopping period yet require students to fill out their study cards the semester before. The initiative was criticized by some CUE members who were not convinced that it would solve the problems of poor advising and unpredictable course numbers it is intended to address...
...would be interested in seeing evidence that pre-enrollment could predict enrollment,” said CUE member Michael Mitzenmacher, an associate professor of computer science...
According to faculty members on CUE, departments do not currently have any standardized way to predict class size, but Mitzenmacher and CUE member Rohit Chopra ’04 said they thought a math or computer-based algorithm might be able perform this function—with or without early registration...
...hope is to get feedback from the CUE and from students and faculty more generally, and then to take the issue to the Faculty Council, which would need to recommend any change in the Handbook [for Students] for the dates for registration, preliminary or otherwise,” he wrote in an e-mail...