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...Harvard faculty has yet to draft legislation from the Task Force??s report. Once it reaches legislative format, the proposal will face discussion in April and a final vote this coming May. But for now, the future of activity-based learning at Harvard remains in limbo...
...Task Force??s proposal has some students afraid that the initiative would mix their academic and extracurricular lives unnecessarily. A Feb. 15 Crimson staff editorial voiced concerns that “the only thing that such a policy would accomplish would be to bureaucratize extracurricular life at Harvard...
...important to note that the aim of the Task Force??s proposal is not a forced integration of extracurricular and academic pursuits. Instead, it seeks to give students the opportunity to link the two if they choose. According to Kemper Professor of American History James T. Kloppenburg, “The goal is to give students more flexibility to plan their own undergraduate programs, experiment with various alternatives, and make changes. Locking students into a rigid curriculum ...is now seen as a problem rather than a goal...
...than in larger meetings like this,” he said, referring to concerns residents raised about the impact the complex with have on traffic and how the building will serve the neighborhood. “I think that’s a more productive use of the Task Force??s time...
...deal with the transition period between the Core and the new general education system, which will likely not come into force for several years so that new classes can be designed. We hope that current students who will never see the new program will nonetheless benefit from the task force??s insight; the Core Office should not delay in relaxing its restrictions on departmental coursesThat process is already beginning in fits and starts. Halfway through last fall’s shopping period, three of the new humanities courses were approved for Literature and Arts A, and only then...