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Harvard has failed to accompany its announcements of new initiatives with concrete information about the ways in which those initiatives will effect students; instead, students have been left sorting through empty promises of curricular renewal. The Curricular Review is motivated by a desire to improve undergraduate education; to be successful, the implementation of reforms must do more than confound our shopping period woes...
...Harvard’s announcement facilitated the change.“It would be difficult to make this decision unilaterally,” Cliatt said. “The fact that Harvard made its announcement was one of the factors we took into account when we were doing our review, and it did affect our decision.”According to Cliatt, Princeton chose to end early decision after officials met with trustees who were on campus for annual meetings this past weekend.This year, Princeton accepted nearly 49 percent of its entering class through its early decision program. By contrast...
...student’s findings, and that his position as editor of a Colgate-sponsored dental newsletter was not a conflict of interest. “The committees came to the conclusion after a year of thoughtful and detailed work and were influenced only by the facts of the review,” Lacey said. He also said that the review had been conducted with appropriate transparency. “The complete misconduct review record was sent to the Office for Research Integrity, the federal office with oversight in these matters,” Lacey said. “[They...
...since I became dean and we decided to make it a recognized position,” Gross wrote. Pilbeam served as dean of undergraduate education and most recently as chair of the committee on advising and counseling—one of the few committees in the curricular review whose recommendations were implemented. Along with his role as senior adviser, Pilbeam will co-chair the Education Policy Committee (EPC) with Gross. Formed in 1992 by Interim Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Jeremy R. Knowles, the EPC is responsible for making suggestions for curricular reform. Although Knowles and William...
Yale officials did not return requests for comment yesterday. Yale President Richard C. Levin said last week that Yale would review its early admission policies...