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Exhaustion from four years of meetings and reports could prompt faculty to retreat into comfortably established classroom routines. Yet we must not presume that President-elect Drew G. Faust and her incoming deans can implement complex changes on their own. Genuine improvements in advising, course offerings, and pedagogy require ongoing faculty commitment. Each step of the way, faculty and administrators must articulate clear goals and plan wisely for how (and how not) to proceed. Here are some principles and caveats to keep in mind...
...favor of calendar reform grows, there is still one issue up for debate: whether Harvard should have a January term. But while such an inter-semester mini-term might be superficially appealing, we doubt that it could succeed in practice and hope the University does not try to implement a J-Term. In March 2004, the Committee on Calendar Reform, one of the curricular review committees, proposed a “4-1-4” schedule to align Harvard with most other colleges: The school year would start immediately after Labor Day and final exams would be given...
...While the Calendar Reform Act proposed a revamped calendar for the 2008-2009 academic year, change may not come so fast. “My sense is that if we were to decide it this year, it would probably take two years to implement,” said Secretary of the Faculty David B. Fithian. Gross, too, said it would take at least a year or two for changes to be put in place...
...This is a promising step that they are taking,” Haddock said in an interview yesterday. “I hope that Gross is willing to put money behind this kind of thing.” The recently enacted UC proposal also seeks to implement a system in which students would help to create a centralized list of course readings. “The Faculty wants to save students money on books already,” Petersen said. “But they are burdened by this complicated system and deserve to be empowered with a College-wide...
After the Task Force on General Education released its final report earlier this year, we were optimistic about the creation of a vibrant, flexible, and student-friendly general education system that would not merely be the Core version 2.0. Yet the proposed legislation to implement the new system has largely dashed our hopes. By leaving out critical details, the draft legislation has passed the buck to a new committee, the decisions of which could very well leave students with another lackluster and dispiriting general education system.One of the most prominent—and in our view the most important?...