Word: registrar
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Davis cited specific examples of such proof, but said, "The decision is pretty much up to the individual registrar...
...Acting Registrar Thurston A. Smith said, however, that the University has a "simple" policy about disseminating student information...
...your term papers for non-proctored classes, that is classes for which there is not a sit-down exam, are due on or about May 14--the last day of Reading Period. It is not a coincidence that all of your papers are due then. The Office of the Registrar has taken the liberty of slotting the date of May 19 (the first Monday of exams) as the deadline for all grades for non-proctored classes. Professors or teaching fellows use the weekend before to read (or, more realistically given the time constraints, spot check) your final papers and guesstimate...
Understandably, the Office of the Registrar would like to begin processing grades as soon as possible. And flexibility in deadlines is not appealing to any bureaucratic structure. But the pressure placed on students by the (ostensibly) inflexible May 19 deadline has an unintended and decidedly negative impact on the student body: The crowding of paper deadlines at the latter half of the second week of Reading Period. The problems resulting there-from are the massing of papers at a particular point in time and the effective elimination of Reading Period...
...useful instances it is aided by the advice of a professor or graduate student. A Reading Period centered around learning would be very much in the Harvard tradition. A first step in that direction would be the removal of paperwork from the two weeks of Reading Period. The University Registrar, Thurston Smith, can aid students in this regard by moving the deadline (perhaps for next semester) for non-proctored exams to either the start of Reading Period or the end of Exam Period...