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Just before the curricular review came to completion this spring, the UC released a 10,000 word position paper documenting their proposed calendar changes. A UC-sponsored undergraduate referendum on calendar reform followed, in which 84 percent of the 3,467 students who participated voted in favor of the Council’s proposal. The UC plan drew heavily upon that of the Verba report, but it did not endorse a J-term—instead citing language from the earlier report providing for an alternate configuration...
...before he would leave Mass. Hall, Bok threw his hat into the ring. He said on Friday that he waited until late in his tenure as interim president to discuss calendar reform because “several precipitating events occurred late in the year,” including the curricular review...
...look to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), he would be disappointed to see that certitude has wracked this institution he loved so dearly, leading to four years of political violence, rancor, and quagmire during the Faculty’s most important undertaking in a generation, its Curricular Review...
Since then it has been the best of times, and the worst of times. FAS has grown enormously in power after exercising a very public veto over one Harvard president and wielding private influence to elevate one of its own, Drew G. Faust, to the vacated bully pulpit. The Curricular Review is complete: Undergraduate concentration choice has been moved to the sophomore year; students have the option of taking secondary fields in addition to their concentrations; and a new system of general education, which revamps the Core with an increased focus on contemporary issues, passed the Faculty last month...
Above all, the Faculty must rise to the occasion. It must show as much enthusiasm in offering new courses as it did when over 400 faculty members showed up to attend a vote of no confidence in Summers. The lack of enthusiasm evidenced by Curricular Review votes that barely reached a Faculty quorum, and professors’ certitude and inability to cooperate, must give way to a newly concerted communal effort. That did not happen in the past four years, but it needs to start happening if the new curriculum is to work for professors—and most importantly...