Word: hpc
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...considered the Independent Study question briefly in January and decided then to take no action on the HPC's recommendations. Ford said that the question was brought back to the CEP floor "because the HPC became much more specific in their suggestions" and because Edward T. Wilcox, CEP secretary and director of the Office of Advanced Standing, which originated the program, "sorted out a set of specific issues on which he wanted the CEP's advice...
...HPC recommendations did not win support from the CEP. "We did not accept the notion that Independent Study should be used to generate new courses," Ford said yesterday...
...also took no action on the HPC's recommendation that Independent Study be better advertised. Ford said however that a few sentences on Independent Study will probably be included in the preliminary section of the course catalogue next year...
When studying the possibilities of expanding the Houses' educational role, the HPC and HUC should pay close attention to the problem of financing proposed innovations. Even improvements which the Administration agrees would be desirable may not be approved if they look costly and the HPC can't show where the money could come from...
...MORE promising area for the subcommittee is the educational role of the Houses. The HPC plans to look for ways of adding to the number of House courses. They want to entice more Faculty members and non-Faculty such as artists and musicians to play a greater role--if only over the dinner table--in the Houses. At present, only Winthrop and Lowell Houses offer House General Education courses. Dunster House has a Composer-in-Residence; no other House has a similar post. The Houses are beginning to expand their educational role, but this expansion has been too slow...