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...Faculty’s first chance to display its academic leadership following its successful coup, Dean of FAS William C. Kirby barely mustered a quorum on Tuesday for the first round of votes on the Harvard College Curricular Review (HCCR). This abysmal attendance not only questions the Faculty’s commitment to the future of the College’s curriculum but also its idealistic complaints about Summers’ inability to effectively run an academic institution—at least he showed...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) voted Tuesday to institute a “secondary field” option (essentially, a minor) as the first in a series of curricular review proposals brought forth by the Educational Policy Committee (EPC). Theoretically, these secondary fields could function similarly to the way citation and certificate programs function now, giving students credit for in-depth work in a non-concentration field by taking four to six classes in a specific area. On the surface, the concept of the secondary concentration seems appealing. Students are getting recognition for the work they?...
...voting to allow undergraduates to declare secondary fields yesterday, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences acted on the first proposal that emerged from the Harvard College Curricular Review...
...curricular review was the work of eight different committees that addressed everything from study abroad to the freshman writing program...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences yesterday voted to allow undergraduates to declare secondary fields, akin to minors, as professors overwhelmingly endorsed the first legislation to emerge from the three-and-a-half-year-old curricular review. The group of about 150 professors at yesterday’s Faculty meeting passed the measure on a nearly unanimous voice vote after more than an hour of sometimes chaotic debate. They ran out of time before being able to consider the second proposal on the meeting docket, which would delay concentration choice until the middle of sophomore year. [On Thursday, Secretary...