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Social psychologists say that in face-to-face conversations, people tend to moderate themselves, much as those in University Hall moderate students' evaluations. We are each of us our own CUF Guide editors. You should reflect, then, about what it means for a TF--a human being (in most cases) just like you, who may or may not be as smart and talented as you are, who may even have gone to a second-rate college such as Yale or Princeton--to confront 30 absolutely candid evaluations of his or her character...

Author: By Dmitri Tymoczko, | Title: The Evaluation Game | 12/19/1995 | See Source »

...obsolete. The old regulations require summa recipients to earn two A or A-grades to each of the General Education divisions outside their major. With the phasing-out of the General Education program in the coming years. Satisfying that requirement would soon prove problematical. "The Committee on Undergraduate Education [CUF] and the Faculty Council were sympathetic to the purpose of that requirement, but hesitated to create a system that requires the allocation of courses to areas after the General Education fields disappear." Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education and chief author of the new legislation Steven E. Ozment wrote...

Author: By David S. Hilzenrath, | Title: Johnny Cum Laude | 3/20/1985 | See Source »

GIVEN UP current system's conspicuous shortcomings, one can only wonder why reform took so long in the making. Three years ago, a proposal by then-Dean for Undergraduate Education Sidney Verba '53 was blocked on the floor of a Faculty meeting. The Faculty returned the proposal to the CUF for further study. The issue of reform seemed destined to languish in a bureaucratic twilight zone until Ozment entered University Hall in September and revived the cause...

Author: By David S. Hilzenrath, | Title: Johnny Cum Laude | 3/20/1985 | See Source »

...member steering committee is expected to pass on to the full Faculty a proposal generated in the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUF) which would simplify the current honors standards...

Author: By James D. Solomon, | Title: Honors Reforms Likely To Go to Faculty Vote | 2/6/1985 | See Source »

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