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...During Gross’s two-and-a-half years at the helm, the administration has taken large steps to improve undergraduate social life. Progress in academic reform, however, has come slowly as the Curricular Review—which Gross co-chairs—continues without a Faculty vote on its recommendations after three-and-a-half years...
...Brien, who served in an ex officio capacity on the review’s Committee on Advising and Counseling, said that academic reform necessarily takes longer than adjustments in student life...
...don’t see why there should be fundamental opposition.” However, several prominent professors continue to argue that the entire curricular review should be put on hold until a new Dean of the Faculty and University President are chosen. “No curricular reform that’s going to be effective can be implemented effectively without the enthusiastic support of the dean and maybe the president,” McKay Professor of Computer Science Harry R. Lewis ’68 said.According to Lewis, a former Dean of the College, the incoming dean...
...people, teachers, coaches, who want to see [improvement] happen and who really have the best interest of the students at the core of everything,” Knight said.Nolan was optimistic about the school’s ability to level its current academic disparities.“Reform is hard but we should really be challenging ourselves to do better,” she said. “I want us to be at the top.”—Staff writer Laura A. Moore can be reached at lamoore@fas.harvard.edu...
...general purpose of the bill is to call upon House Masters and the College administration to make a serious reform to the College’s restrictive co-ed housing policy,” sponsor of the bill Eric I. Kouskalis ’07 said. “We think that every student in every House should have the opportunity to live in a co-ed room if they wish to do so,” he said...