Word: cuffing
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...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...
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...
...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...
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