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...Harvard College Curricular Review (HCCR) Report, released in April 2004, recommended “that freshmen be assigned to a House before the start of freshman year and be housed together in dormitory entries affiliated with their House.” We strongly oppose this suggestion. The benefits of Yale-style housing are insufficient to justify switching from the current system. Furthermore, many of the benefits promised under Yale-style housing, including better advising, evaporate under scrutiny. These areas of improvement should be addressed independent of the housing system...
...this will pan out over the next year—which will be a critical time of growth for Harvard—it is useful to look at three of Summers’ most controversial projects, the Harvard College Curricular Review, Allston expansion, and his proposal to create “divisional” hiring committees...
Let’s start with the Curricular Review, which the Faculty has to pass after the committees finish their work. The latest news from the Curricular Review front concerns the General Education Committee. Its initial recommendations, which Summers had a large hand in producing, fell flat. Indeed, after the dismal reception Gen Ed got, the sense among faculty now is that large portions of the Review will simply fail...
...Summers is down, but not necessarily out. Allston, at the very least, is still on the table, though he’ll probably have to work hard to change his style (no matter what you think of it). And the Curricular Review may be off the wall, but as long as he decides to stay in Mass. Hall, Summers has a significant ally—time. The average term for a University president is around 20 years. Not every one will be as damaging as 2005 has already been...
...they haven’t accomplished what they were hired to do. Nobody can seriously claim that Summers’ performance violates the first shibboleth. And, reviewing the 2001 reportage about the Corporation’s goals for a new president—stronger leadership, higher standards, an aggressive curricular review, and Allston expansion—it is hard to argue that, in terms of substance, Summers has not lived up to expectations...