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...heavy irony hangs over the successes of the Harvard Policy Committee last fall. By pushing for fourth-course pass-fail and a reduction in the language requirement, the old HPC has probably reduced the potential of its successors. Deans Ford and Glimp have both said in the last month that the Faculty has reached a saturation point for proposals "that look like a lowering of academic standards." Asking a liberalization of Independent Study rules, for instance, "would be bad Faculty politics right now," Ford said...
...chilly reception of the HPC's Independent Study audit is the best barometer of the difficulties the new HPC may face. For almost a month there was no official response to the HPC's suggestion, and when four administrators and two HPC members met to discuss the report in early January, they were unable to agree on any major changes. Even a minor HPC request--to note the possibility of Independent Study in the course catalogue--was reportedly met with vigorous objections from Registrar Robert Shenton. The Independent Study issue is still open and HPC President Henry Norr is unwilling...
Independent Study looms as the only failure in an amazingly effective year for the HPC. The Faculty vote yesterday confirming fourth-course pass-fail was the final process of careful politicking that started last spring. And the Faculty seems certain to approve later this spring an HPC-initiated reduction in the language requirement and a new department of Environmental and Visual Studies--meticulously described in a massive HPC audit. Since early November the main item of business at every Committee on Educational Policy meeting has come from the HPC...
...HPC's power comes in part from a pair of peculiar structural strengths. Members like to think that the group is effective because its meetings are closed. Secret meetings, they say, keep splits within the group private and allow the HPC to avoid the abrupt and confused policy switches which have plagued the HUC. The HPC has no pretense of being a representative body. Its members aren't elected--they are appointed by house masters; and so the group includes a number of shrewd people who might never enter, much less win, a house committee election. They command respect...
...HPC had recommended abolishing all generals as a long-range goal and turning non-credit sophomore tutorial into a half-credit course...