Word: ozment
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...Undergraduate Education [CUE] and the Faculty Council were sympathetic to the purpose of that requirement, but hesitated to create a system that requires the allocation of courses to areas after the General Education fields disappear." Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education and chief author of the new legislation Steven E. Ozment wrote in a report to the Faculty last week...
...making. Three years ago, a proposal by then Dean for Undergraduate Education Sidney Verba '53 was blocked on the floor of a Faculty meeting. The Faculty" returned the proposal to the CUE for further study. The issue of reform seemed destined to languish in a bureaucratic twilight zone until Ozment entered University Hall in September and revived the cause...
...again this year, most of the debate centered on the merits of a so-called mercy clause allowing students to discard a few of their lowest grades. Neither the Verba plan nor the successful Ozment plan included such a provision...
Defending his proposal before the Faculty, Ozment observed rightly that the Administrative Board has the power to compensate for low marks "when circumstances rather than ability" influence a student's performance. Mistakes are part of life, and a consistently solid record will balance a few blemishes, the dean added. His arguments were apparently convincing...
More Harvard undergraduates receive honors partly because 80 percent choose to undertake the tutorials and theses required of honors candidates, Ozment said. Maybe more are honors caliber to begin with. "Students who come to us as the pick of the crop across the nation tend to remain such after four years at Harvard," the dean observed. Somewhat more dubiously, Ozment also argued that raising standards could be self-defeating because it would increase the already substantial pressure on professors and teaching fellows to inflate undergraduates' grades...