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...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...
Fleming said the chief concerns for graduate students—affordable housing, student care, and pedagogical issues related to the ongoing curricular review—have not changed over the past year...
...time when Harvard is reevaluating its academic and curricular goals, the administration ought to reassert its commitment to developing South Asian Studies at Harvard. As students, we have done everything in our power to provide the university with extensive data on the current state of South Asian Studies at Harvard and at peer institutions; with statistics and recommendations illustrating undergraduate student desires; and with the endorsement of the larger student community. The onus now lies on the administration to implement these much-needed changes. In the words of former president Summers, “There is an enormous need...