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Before the CUE Guide, the only publication that reviewed Harvard classes was The Crimson's Confidential Guide, published yearly since...
However, professors and administrators became dissatisfied with the Confidential Guide's reviews. In 1972, Bok suggested that the CUE publish reviews of courses that were to be based on "statistics rather than common knowledge," says Jeffrey Wolcowitz, associate dean of Undergraduate Education...
...CUE Guide was my idea," Bok says. "We needed something more reliable and something that would be taken more seriously than the Confi Guide. The professors are more willing to listen to an official University document...
Gingerich says that Bok once read a scathing evaluation in the Confi Guide of two assistant professors. According to Gingerich, when Bok read the statistics about the same assistant professors in the CUE Guide, their evaluation was much more "acceptable...
Similar previous conflicts had prompted Bok and the CUE to start an objective, statistical review of Harvard courses...