Word: registrar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There are constantly proposals for different calendars," says Margaret E. Law, registrar of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. "Students want to go home for Christmas without the worry of studying for exams, but they don't realize what that change would involve," she says...
Academic calendars became the subject of heated controversy on many campuses in the late 1960s and 1970s because students and faculty had conflicting views on what the best exam system was, says Columbia University Registrar Zeita-Marion Lobley...
Brown changed from the traditional system to the new one four years ago because of very strong student lobbying, says Katherine P. Hall, the university registrar...
...university had considered the change for more than 10 years, and finally decided on it because "everyone was tired of the issue, and people are finally ready for it," says University Registrar Millicent A. Lecount...
...With exams after Christimas, students have more of an opportunity to finish their assignments," says Princeton's Assistant Registrar Joseph L. Greenberg...