Word: curricular
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...certainly observe this principle in College academics. Allowing more department courses to count as distribution requirements indeed ranked high among the priorities of the recently-concluded curricular review, so to provide students with greater flexibility...
...highest governing board affirmed its commitment to study abroad and pledged to tackle the rising costs of scholarly publication in its bi-weekly meeting yesterday. The Faculty Council did not discuss the search for the new dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences or the curricular review, according to two council members. Vice Provost for International Affairs Jorge I. Dominguez introduced Catherine H. Winnie—the new permanent director of the Office of International Programs—to the council. The two presented an update of Harvard’s study abroad programs in the past year...
...their courses,” he said. “Our students are going to do fine when they get out of here, regardless of what is certified on their transcripts.” Some Faculty members may choose to address grade inflation after the completion of the curricular review, Gross added, but he downplayed the possibility that grading policies might change. “I would welcome a discussion in the Faculty at the end of the curricular review, but I’m not convinced that we will end up changing our position,” he said...
...more in touch with their concerns. Though Associate Dean of Advising Programs Monique Rinere’s invention of academic Peer Advising Fellows is a step in the right direction, it must be formalized, re-focused on concentration choice, and extended into sophomore year to ensure that this curricular change does not become a punishment for undecided students...
...system that should have been buried long ago. And now, with the recent Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) announcement of a revised advising program to provide academic counseling for first-semester sophomores—concentration choice does not have to be made until then, thanks to the curricular review—the burden of advising undecided sophomores has been foisted on already-overworked House resident tutors...