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...proposal sent to Faculty members on Thursday, Dean of Undergraduate Education Susan G. Pedersen '81-'82 and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education Jeffrey Wolcowitz outlined a plan that recommends boosting the number of freshman seminars...
...concern is whether freshmen are in small-group instruction experiences with Faculty," Pedersen said...
This fall, about 700 first-years applied for spots in the Freshman Seminar program but the program could accommodate only 230 students. And according to Pedersen, the Freshman Seminary program has shrunk almost by half since the 1980s...
...have a lot of undergraduate requirements in comparison with other universities," Pedersen said. "We would want the effect [of the proposed changes] to be freeing on the curriculum...
...Pedersen said, the initiative would ultimately have to come from the Faculty, since Faculty members will have to contribute time and resources for the seminar program to grow...