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...policy paper recommends that housing students during the month of January be defined in a way that allows students to stay on campus to participate in a variety of extra-curricular activities and other programs that are deemed productive...
...diversity in itself—its framers explain that educators at each individual school will retain their prerogative to design courses and curricula so long as they comply with the agreed-upon framework. Nonetheless, Lumina should question whether its program is heading in the right direction. Significant curricular differences may make decisions harder for the Class of 2013, but they would be foolish to have it any other...
...donation from David Rockefeller ’36, made specifically to fund “significant” international projects. The determination of significance is a task left by the University to the OIP, which assesses how well student proposals adhere to standards for cultural immersion, faculty consultation, and curricular integration. According to Erin E. Goodman, the assistant director of the OIP and one of the grant program’s chief coordinators, 825 students applied for Rockefeller grants, which are available only for proposed projects lasting at least eight weeks. Of that number, 511 have been sent letters informing...
...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...