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The Faculty Council killed a student-backed proposal yesterday to extend the deadline for dropping courses, arguing that an extension would encourage students to abandon classes in which they fear they will do poorly.
Alex B. Patterson ’02-’03 first introduced the proposal at a Jan. 29 Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) meeting. He and others argued that the extension of the deadline to the seventh week of the term would give students more freedom to take risks...
Because Harvard’s second semester began just before the registration deadline, the University has an extension until August.
Harvard’s six-month extension could allow Harvard to learn from other colleges’ and universities’ experiences with the brand-new system, Ladd says.
Shortly after the conference, the INS offered educational institutions nationwide a deadline extension for registration—a gesture aiming to ensure that the new system would be manageable for everyone involved, says INS spokesperson Karen Kraushaar.