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...explained his decision not to submit changes to a vote by describing calendar reform as “a University-wide question which affects everyone at the University and not a single Faculty alone...
...result, I invited everyone at Harvard, including faculty members from Arts and Sciences, to express their opinions,” he wrote in a statement to The Crimson last week. Despite some skepticism, Bok said that 88 percent faculty across campus favored reform...
...Calendar reform has been a perennial issue at Harvard. 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 Verba’s cross-school committee...
...University-wide calendar with a “4-1-4” schedule—two four-month semesters, with a one-month “J-term” in between. But in the last two years of Summers’ tenure, the conversation on calendar reform stalled as FAS tackled general education legislation and a leadership crisis...
Just before the curricular review came to completion this spring, the UC released a 10,000 word position paper documenting their proposed calendar changes. A UC-sponsored undergraduate referendum on calendar reform followed, in which 84 percent of the 3,467 students who participated voted in favor of the Council’s proposal. The UC plan drew heavily upon that of the Verba report, but it did not endorse a J-term—instead citing language from the earlier report providing for an alternate configuration...