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...Curricular Review (HCCR) is, at best, a process that they have barely heard of. Indeed, for a once-in-a-generation review of the foundations of Harvard’s undergraduate curriculum, it has generated depressingly little excitement outside of University Hall and Faculty offices. Yet without concrete student input, the HCCR could turn into an administrative feat about as appealing to undergraduates as Loker Commons...
...timing of concentration choice. Additionally, some House representatives hold regular office hours before Sunday council meetings—as required by council bylaws—to gather student views about other issues. Yet this outreach is still spotty. Different House representatives display varying levels of commitment to collecting student input. Glazer and Nichols must pound it into the heads of all council representatives that their first job is to represent and respond to their constituents...
...council representatives more responsive on issues apart from the Curricular Review. Splitting off the Finance Committee (FiCom) from the rest of the council will free FiCom-ers to spend more time giving grants to student groups. The Harvard Concert Commission (HCC) should also be forced to solicit more student input before it begins bidding for large musical acts, whether through a closer association with the council itself or folding the HCC directly into the College Life Committee. Though we recognize that the bidding process is complicated, the HCC must realize that it is working with student money, and student desires...
Even though the administration currently accepts student input about professors’ teaching abilities, Mahan said it can do even more. “If they take it seriously, that’s great—why not advertise?” he said...
...potential problem with it is that you would presumably only get this sort of input on internal tenure candidates,” he said...