Word: epc
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year later, academic departments, prompted by the Educational Policy Committee (EPC), are at various stages in the process of reevaluating where they stand on concentration requirement reform...
...directive is clear, but it carries no legislative authority because the EPC is an advisory group to the Dean of the Faculty, not a policy-making body. As a result, there have been several violations of this unofficial policy. But the administration appears to be unaware of the problem...
Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles assured me in an e-mail that "the policies of this Faculty" concerning the evaluation of subjective work by undergraduates "are unambiguous." The language of the EPC's statement allows for interpretation, but this is not supposed to be one of those qualified statements the administration is so found of making, which usually begin with "ordinarily." Indeed, Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education Jeffrey Wolcowitz asserted in an e-mail that his office, which oversees spending for section teaching, "read[s] the `should not' with the force of wrong and inappropriate...
...facts are as you state in the specific case you cite, it is the exception rather than the rule in the role that course assistants play." This parsed statement only underscores the fact that there is no rule at Harvard College regarding peer undergraduate grading. Despite what the EPC may have intended, section hiring is essentially left to the discretion of course heads...
Gould's course last semester is the most glaring exception to the EPC recommendation, but in several other courses the use of undergraduates to help teach and grade has become an accepted practice. In General Education 156, "The Information Age, Its Main Currents and Their Intermingling," for example, Professor Anthony G. Oettinger employs an undergraduate to assist him and to provide feedback on response papers...