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Earlier this week , when budget cuts were announced, you were probably thinking of all the past Harvard excesses you’ve witnessed, expenditures that probably seem a lot more superfluous than, say, shuttle service or small section sizes...
...pass a Faculty vote to be implemented, and it will go before the full Faculty next Tuesday. The Council passed a significantly revised Handbook for Students, which includes the minimum SAT Subject Test score of 700 to fulfill the foreign language requirement. There is also an entirely new section on the Gen Ed curriculum, which will be fully implemented this fall and required of all incoming members of the class of 2013. As of Wednesday, 51 Gen Ed classes have been approved to be offered next year, with 168 total classes next year counting toward the new curriculum...
...average number of students per section will increase next year, as the Faculty of Arts and Science aims to save $2 million by cutting eight to 10 percent of the college’s section leaders for next year, according to Assistant Dean of the College Logan S. McCarty...
...cutting the number of section leaders, administrators are instituting a more rigorous application of a long-standing target of 18 students per section...
...With the average section increasing in size, there will be fewer sections overall, which will translate into fewer teaching positions...