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...their closest models is just down the river at MIT...
...MIT students have enjoyed a form of J-term called the Independent Activities Period (IAP) for almost 35 years, according to Michael Bergren, assistant dean for academic and research initiatives. The term starts on the first Monday of January and lasts four weeks. “This separate period—where people can do something different academically—provides flexibility in how we learn and how we teach,” he says...
MIT’s term is not mandatory and most classes are pass/fail. While Bergren could not provide any statistics about the number of students who take the term in any year, MIT senior Rose A. Grabowski says it is very popular...
...Thomas P. “Tip” O’Neill in the 1970’s. After she lost—twice—the newly founded center took over the space, and to this day pays the rent using donations from members. One of its founders, MIT mathematician Dirk Struik, was banned from teaching during what Dodderman calls “the dark years of the McCarthy era.” Struik stayed on at MIT, and “he couldn’t teach but they had to pay him anyway,” Dodderman...
...question arises as to why it is that students with a more definite plan for their future cannot explore vocational possibilities through a Harvard liberal arts curriculum. As Merenda exasperatedly exclaims, “MIT has a theater major for heaven sake...