Word: hpc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proposal suggests that the HPC deal with academic affairs, the SFAC handle issues between the University and the community, and that HUC work with non-academic matters...
...HPC's proposal would raise no financial problems for the University. Nobody is paid for advising Independent Studies so the only limit on the program's size is the willingness of Faculty members to budget time for it. A flood of applications might fill the program to the saturation point, but overpopularity would be preferable to its present obscurity...
...power to approve projects should not, however, be turned over to the Senior Tutors as the HPC recommends. The student's own department or the department in which he plans his Independent Study are in a better position to screen promising projects than a senior tutor who may have no better basis for his decision than a student's academic reputation...
...meetings, sponsored by the Harvard Policy Committee, initiated a longterm student study of the University called the Harvard Education Project (HEP). The participants included the HPC president Henry, R. Norr '68, five of the 14 new HPC members, five tutors, and three newly-elected SFAC representatives...
...afternoon of the Dow demonstration Norr and another HPC member became the first students within memory to testify before the CEP. Norr made the usual plea for allowing broader experimentation, but his other argument may have been decisive...