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...guidelines that would place Harvard's Schools on a more uniform academic schedule and enable students and faculty members to cross Harvard's internal borders with greater ease. After carefully analyzing and weighing the potential benefits and complexities of calendar reform, the committee produced a detailed report proposing a framework consistent with this goal...
Under the committee's recommended framework, endorsed by 18 of its 19 members, each of the University's Faculties would start the first term early in September, usually immediately after Labor Day, and end the term (including exams) in December, before the winter break. The academic year (including Commencement) would conclude by the end of May. Vacations such as Thanksgiving and spring break would be coordinated. Within these basic guidelines, the timing and structure of activities such as course registration and reading and exam periods would continue to be determined by the individual Schools. In addition, Schools would have discretion...
...March 2004, the president, provost, and deans issued a statement expressing their belief that the University should follow the substantive and procedural recommendations of the Verba committee. They stated that the University should move to the proposed framework of a limited number of uniform dates on the calendars of all the Schools, but agreed to defer final action until the completion of certain curricular reviews then underway in several of the Faculties. A copy of the March 2004 statement appears at http://www.provost.harvard.edu/reports/statement.php...
...reasons given to me in support of a common calendar framework include the following. Such a framework would make it easier for students to take courses in Harvard Schools other than their own, as well as at MIT. It would also facilitate more teaching across Faculty lines, an objective recently endorsed by the University Planning Committee on Science and Engineering and the FAS Task Force on General Education. Students would finish fall term exams before winter vacation, allowing for a longer and less stressful break -- an advantage recently emphasized by the Undergraduate Council and reinforced in a letter...
...universities, their right-wing counterparts were trying to get good old boys like Barry Goldwater elected. The reason for that sort of discrepancy is largely that conservative values tend to be associated with traditionalism, and most forms of conservative reform can occur easily within a governmental framework. Typically, therefore, activism does not go hand-in-hand with conservatism...