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Members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ Educational Policy Committee (EPC) met yesterday to “clean up” their legislation that proposes postponing concentration choice to the middle of sophomore year and adding “secondary concentrations” akin to minors. The meeting moves FAS one step closer to casting its first votes on the curricular review. The legislation will be presented to the 19-member Faculty Council today and will likely face a final vote at the April 4 meeting of the full Faculty. Initial drafts of the legislation were presented...
...Another EPC member, Pearson Professor of Modern Mathematics and Mathematical Logic Warren Goldfarb ’69, presented draft legislation that would move the concentration choice deadline back by a semester, from the end of students’ second semester to the end of their third semester...
...least some of those concerns appeared to be assuaged yesterday, as the EPC added to their draft legislation a requirement that students meet with at least one concentration adviser from a concentration they are considering by the end of their freshman year...
Most of the subsequent discussion about the EPC recommendations focussed on the format of the draft legislation; both the secondary concentration legislation and the concentration choice legislation consisted of only one sentence of actual legislation, followed by a half to a full page “explanatory note...
While the EPC recommendations were the central focus of yesterday’s meeting, other topics were touched on as well...