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...autonomy.” The motion, put forward by Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71, would mandate that all courses of five or more students be evaluated for the annual guide published by the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE).The Faculty Council and a curricular review committee have both supported mandating course evaluations, noting that they serve as crucial report cards for both professors and teaching fellows. According to Gross, about 60 professors opted out of the CUE Guide process last semester, leaving more than 230 TFs without evaluations.But at the beginning of full Faculty...
...since the early 1980s, is that students are only offered a limited number of courses in each of the Core’s 11 areas. As a result, students cannot take more advanced departmental courses, even if they have the appropriate preparation—a criticism acknowledged by the Curricular Review’s Committee on General Education. For example, students can take Quantitative Reasoning 20, “Computers and Computing,” to fulfill a Core requirement, but they cannot take the more advanced Computer Science 51, “Introduction to Computer Science...
...incoming freshmen who flooded the campus this past weekend will face a markedly new concentration structure, as theirs will be the first class to declare a concentration in the middle of their sophomore year. While we endorse many of the reforms suggested by the Harvard College Curricular Review (HCCR), this is not one of them. Advocates of the delay argue that it will give students more time to explore their options before committing to a concentration. But the advantage of taking four extra courses seems dubious. Rather then encourage students to invest more time or thought into their decision...
...Thomas, another regular Caucus participant, are on the ten-member committee advising Bok on the search.At its April 6 meeting, the group also met with Theda Skocpol, the Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, to discuss issues such as funding for graduate students and how undergraduate curricular reforms could affect graduate students.According to McCarthy, Skocpol stressed during her meeting with the Caucus that she is working to standardize procedures amongst the numerous departments serving graduate students.“By making some of the rules and regulations a bit clearer...the staff will be able to devote...
...announced last week. These courses––most of which will be offered in 2007-08, but some of which will debut this fall––will greatly enrich Harvard’s humanities offerings along the lines proposed by the Harvard College Curricular Review (HCCR), and will serve as needed pathways into the often overspecialized world of Harvard’s arts and literature courses. Envisioned by Dean for the Humanities Maria Tatar as a “bridge between the Core” and the system of distributional requirements outlined...