Word: curricular
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...funding much like the university does for summer vacation. Another important step would be clarifying and loosening criteria for students wishing to stay on campus during the recess. Being able to remain on campus to utilize Harvard’s vast resources would allow students to pursue non-curricular activities such as independent research, student group activities, and service opportunities in Cambridge and Boston...
...current University calendar, a group chaired by Professor Sidney Verba ’53. The Verba Committee developed a new calendar that consisted of two four-month semesters separated by a one-month break. But calendar reform subsequently fell by the wayside amid a focus on the pending curricular review and the controversies of the Summers administration. In spring 2007, the Undergraduate Council renewed the discussion, calling for an undergraduate referendum on calendar reform and proposing a plan that deviated from the Verba report in omitting the J-Term. At the end of that academic year, interim President Derek...
Prefrosh: would you like to have some idea of what classes you'll be required to take in the next four years? If you're going by the Harvard viewbook, you may not know that Harvard is undergoing its first curricular overhaul in over 30 years, and you'll be the first class to fall under Harvard's new General Education program. The viewbook's vague and contradictory information follows after the jump...
...assigns each junior to a faculty advising session, said Donoghue. Under the new system students will have a choice: they can decide whether to seek an “advising conversation” with a faculty member, either self-selected or matched by the department. Next year with the curricular changes in the English department(http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=525707), however, will come further changes in advising. Donoghue said that the department is in the process of designing a distribution system in which advising will still involve faculty-student interactions.“We want students to get guidance from faculty members...
Former Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68, who spoke to the Faculty before the final Gen Ed vote about his concern that students would not have enough room for electives, blamed the administrative upheaval during the curricular review for the number of categories, adding that there was a need for someone to “put limitations on the aggregate and shape it somehow...