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...Though calendar reform has gained unanimous support from deans across the University, some members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences remain skeptical about its benefits and have voiced concern over Bok’s decision not to put it to a vote by the University’s faculties...
...explained his decision not to submit the issue to a vote by describing calendar reform as “a University-wide question which affects everyone at the University and not a single Faculty alone...
...Calendar reform has been a perennial issue at Harvard but has not reached fruition in recent years. In September 2003, then-University President Lawrence H. Summers, Provost Steven E. Hyman, and the University's deans publicly supported a universal calendar for Harvard's schools and announced the creation of a cross-school committee to “consider and propose calendar guidelines applicable to Harvard as a whole...
...Pforzheimer University Professor Sidney Verba '53, published a report embracing a University-wide calendar with a "4-1-4" schedule—two four-month semesters and a January term in the middle. But in the last two years of Summers’ tenure, the conversation on calendar reform stalled as the Faculty of Arts and Sciences tackled a curricular review...
...This spring, the UC organized an undergraduate referendum on calendar reform. Of the 3,467 students who participated, 84 percent voted in favor of the UC's proposal. Unlike the Verba report, the UC did not endorse a one-month term in the middle of the year...