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EXPERTS AGREE that the plethora of criticism is indicative of a conservative trend in American culture, an attempt to recover from what Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education Steven Ozment called "the hangover from the '60s," when traditional requirements were generally abandoned under student and faculty pressure. Along with a yen for argyle sweaters and fervent anti-communism. observers have demonstrated a desire for a return to strict standards in higher education. But not everyone thinks that the situation should be presented in such crisis terms...
Spence has also reorganized and restaffed the University Hall administration. Already, he has named Steven Ozment as associate dean for undergraduate education and Robert A. Rotney as associate dean for administration. Spence will be appointing a new dean of the College probably later this year to replace John B. Fox Jr. '59 who will step down by June, 1986. Also, Spence will likely choose a permanent dean of the GSAS to replace an acting dean...
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...
Three years after an almost indistinguishable proposal met overwhelming opposition in the faculty chamber, only half a dozen professors rose to challenge Ozment's logic. His idea's time had come...