Word: hpc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...months to puzzle out a revision of Harvard's language requirement, and the proposal that goes to the Faculty next week drips with evidence of a long debate's compromise. The plan to shift the requirement to one full course in the freshman year doesn't follow the HPC's recommendation to see the rule junked completely, nor will it please those who think Harvard already asks too little foreign language knowledge of its undergraduates. But the proposal is a logical and ingenious approach to an impossible situation and therefore deserves Faculty approval...
...devote full time to the University's government, it is unrealistic to think of Harvard as a democracy for students. It is not futile, however, as the Harvard Policy Committee and its chairman have proved, to organize and articulate opinions before the sources of Faculty power. The success of HPC audits and its pass-fail proposal show that the departmental oligarchies and the Dean of the Faculty are open to student pressure. But it is hard to justify any undergraduate government, except in terms of sheer parliamentary amusement, unless it seeks to express educational views effectively...
...Dean will have the Faculty's confidence or not; and his whole authority is based on that confidence from the Faculty and Corporation. Therefore the Dean is reluctant to push the Faculty too hard for reforms. When Dean Ford says that the CEP cannot push any harder for the HPC's recommendations, then he is either against those proposals himself or he does not want to risk a Faculty reaction to "too much too fast." Students should exert greater pressure on departments to back the measures. On the whole, Harvard's Administration is pro-student while the Faculty is more...
...HPC resolution reads in part: "Examinations should be regarded as educational experiences, not simply as disciplinary exercises or mechanisms for grading. The educational function of the examination is best served if the student has an opportunity to reconsider and reevaluate his own performance in light of his instructor's evaluation...
...HPC also recommended that June examination papers be saved over the summer by either the instructor of the department, so that students who could not obtain them in June would be able to do so in September...