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In his comments on Dean Bender's report, Stephen F. Jencks is in error when he states that "only after the very latest tuition rise has the Faculty diverted any of the increase funds to the service of the scholarship office."
These figures certainly complicate the case for Mr. Jencks' assertion that "The Faculty ... is being selfish." Fred L. Glimp, Dean of Admissions and Financial Aids.
Some of the following articles provide background and interpretation of various aspects of educational policy; others focus directly on the undergraduate's response to his education. Stephen Jencks analyses the difficulties that the University faces in formulating limited educational programs to remedy ill-defined undergraduate problems; Allan Katz describes students...
A possible explanation for this malaise is suggested in Mary Ellen Gale's evaluation of Mrs. Mary Bunting's first year at Radcliffe, in Mark Krupnick's discussion of the relationship between a course and its students, and in Jencks' description of the problems of constructing educational policy around the...
Perhaps this situation is inevitable in a University of Harvard's size where, as Jencks points out, the Administration has no effective mechanism for gauging the success of its programs. But if it is unavoidable, then the number of cases which Katz has termed "academic suicide," along with those others...