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While the letter did not lay out a concrete schedule of when the Faculty will vote on elements of the review, Kirby did suggest a broad outline of the order in which reports will be discussed at Faculty meetings in the coming semester...
...report of the Educational Policy Committee (EPC), which recommended delaying concentration choice by a semester and allowing students to study a “secondary field” in addition to their primary concentration, will be discussed first, the letter said. In an e-mail to The Crimson this afternoon, Kirby said that he hoped to hold a vote on the EPC recommendations in the first half of the spring semester...
...planets remain in alignment” after these discussions, Kirby wrote in his letter to the Faculty, there will be talk this coming semester about the Report of the Committee on a January Term, which envisioned a calendar that would move exams to December and allow students to use January as a time for other opportunities...
Aside from briefly summarizing the eight curricular review reports, Kirby’s five page letter touched on several broad themes in the review: the desire to “re-commit our Faculty to the central task of educating undergraduates,” a focus on “resisting pressures for early specialization and professionalization,” and a need for a “curriculum of choice, incentive, and opportunity...
...letter to the Faculty today, Kirby insisted that this review was about improving education, not making big news...