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...Corporation are to make a decision, it will be in the next few weeks.”Yet for all the tweaking of their tactics since the early seventies, calendar activists will have to face the same bureaucratic obstacles as their predecessors. “The FAS is set in its schedule right now. I do think the calendar will change sometime in the next ten years,” says Schwartz. The final weeks of this academic year are likely to escalate the clash between the proponents of change and the traditional bureaucracy. As President Bok?...
...meeting of the FAS Standing Committee on Public Service earlier this year, Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 likened ABL to international education in that it would be optional but strongly supported by the University, according to Lisa M. Boes, a member of the committee and a tutor in Quincy House...
...Italian and the Community.” “ABL is something that is at the core of the success of an education.” The event was cosponsored by the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Standing Committee on Public Service, the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA), and the Public Service Network. The meeting featured presentations by Lisa Boes, a research officer at the Bok Center, and Annie Riley ’07, a Social Studies concentrator, both of whom emphasized the program’s promise and benefits...
...debate began 40 years ago when the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) approved the first pass-fail option at Harvard. Henry Ford II Professor of Social Science David Riesman ’31 said at the time, “Most students here take too many courses. They chop their emotional energies into too many little bits. We should be encouraging students to play from weakness instead of strength, but the system here puts pressure on the student not to extend himself in areas where he’s awkward because he fears not doing brilliantly...
...College’s Committee on the Objectives of a General Education in a Free Society wrote, “Education […] must uphold at the same time tradition and experiment, the ideal and the means, subserving, like our culture itself, change within commitment.” FAS ignores this credo today, hemming students into low-risk, safety courses—or else leaving us to risk squandering all chance of a good grad school. Only a decisive policy change can resurrect Harvard’s commitment to the pursuit of real scholarship...