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...lack thereof)? As the Committee on Undergraduate Education reviewed last Wednesday, the College’s facile approach consists of optional mid-term TF evaluations and optional classes at the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning. In the long-term, the preliminary report of the ongoing Harvard College Curricular Review suggests creating fellowships for outstanding TFs and making short training courses in evaluating student work mandatory for grad-student teachers. Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences William C. Kirby also believes that instituting a system of preregistration—an unpopular ogre of a policy that...
...creation of the program is the latest move in an ongoing effort by the College to encourage students to pursue an alternative cultural experience during their undergraduate careers. Last spring’s curricular review recommended that 25 percent of students—about 200 per class, per semester—should study abroad each term. Currently, only 11 percent...
...current special concentrators represent a downward trend from the average of 30 to 40 students Oettinger saw during his tenure, he says. And as the College’s ongoing curricular review encourages increase flexibility within and across existing departments, he says the number may drop even further—though “having an escape hatch for students is not a bad idea...
...concerning the level of transparency in the review, we fear that the necessary discussions are not taking place. For example, in March, now-outgoing Dean of Freshmen Elizabeth Studley Nathans told The Crimson that nobody at the Freshman Deans Office had been “consulted” by curricular review committees, which were at the time completing the first phase of the review. Nathans declined to comment further on these matters when contacted on Tuesday. While outreach to House masters and senior tutors seems to be underway, with no analogue to a Faculty vote on the horizon, we worry...
University Hall, to be sure, has the prerogative to consult whomsoever it chooses, and ultimately it will make the tough decisions on its own. But if administrators want the curricular review to be done right, to be done in a way that students and faculty perceive as legitimate, then they must build the necessary checks and balances into the system—a system which it seems to be making up as it goes along...