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...addition of curricula designed to promote “active-learning” and the introduction of electives. Among other things, the King has used the two extra hours to add “Literacy Collaborative,” a program that infuses reading and writing into the broader curriculum, as well as 60 to 90 minutes of “hands-on math” and 30 minutes of daily Mandarin instruction from junior kindergarten onward...
...five years that Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross '71 has served in University Hall, the College has seen the first overhaul of its core curriculum in nearly 30 years, an unprecedented increase in student social space, and a consolidation of the office of the College dean from two positions into...
Fast-forward four years, and it appears that Gross has accomplished his initial goals: the faculty voted on a new undergraduate curriculum this spring, an office of undergraduate advising now exists in University Hall, a peer advising program, a delay in concentration choice, and a secondary-field program are all in place, and students now can congregate in a student organizations center, a women's center, the Lamont Library Café, freshman common rooms, and even an undergraduate pub. Additionally, offices for alcohol safety and sexual assault prevention exist on campus to serve students, and changes to the student handbook...
Associate Dean of Harvard College Judith H. Kidd said that the next College dean will need to keep up on the faculty mandates on curriculum review and advising as well as find funds to renovate the neo-Georgian residential Houses...
Gross wrote he will work until August preparing for the next academic year, pulling together faculty committees to consider the study of language across the curriculum and activity-based learning, and he will propose a group to the next dean to review the Administrative Board, according to his e-mail to The Crimson...