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...humanities, the social sciences and the Core, no argument is strong enough to justify undergraduates either grading essays or teaching sections. The Educational Policy Committee (EPC) recognizes this in a passage on page 22 of the 1998-1999 Information for Faculty Offering Instruction in the Arts and Sciences...
...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...
...EPC's report on overall academic requirements had its beginning at the May 20 meeting of the Faculty. Concerns about overall academic requirements were voiced by both Wolfson Professor of Jewish Studies Jay Harris and Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences Michael Hasselmo...
...EPC suggested reducing the number of required Core courses from eight to seven, limiting the number of courses required by certain concentrations (the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences leads with 20) and integrating language and Expository Writing requirements into other required courses...