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Radcliffe may soon gain an official voice on the Harvard Policy Committee. Both the HPC and the Harvard Undergraduate Council are considering a constitutional amendment to replace the two non-voting Cliffies now on the HPC with three voting members...
...HPC has only informally discussed the plan and will not officially consider it until late December, after the college-wide ratification of the present HUC constitution. An amendment approved by two-thirds of the HUC would have to voted on later by Harvard undergraduates...
Emphasizing that, Harvard "must maintain a strong commitment to General Education," the HPC outlined its reasons for supporting the CEP proposal in a statement to all Faculty members. The CEP proposal allows a student to fulfill his Gen Ed requirement in the present manner - by taking lower-level Gen Ed courses - or with selected departmental offerings ("or their equivalents") followed by upper-level Gen Ed courses...
...HPC praised the sequential alternative to lower-level Gen Ed courses as a way "to keep pace with the increasing academic sophistication of entering classes." Its statement warned, however, that the success of the new program "will obviously depend on the creation of new upper-level courses in General Education," especially in the Natural Sciences...
...HPC stressed the need to maintain strong lower-level offerings for those who choose the present approach to Gen Ed. Otherwise, the statement declares, "most students would be compelled to take up to six courses" to fulfill their requirement...