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...office in 1971 there was much speculation, administrators say now, that he would commission a committee to draw up a comprehensive report on undergraduate education at Harvard. That report was never commissioned-partly because a newly appointed young president who had gone to Stanford couldn't hope for any success if he commissioned a group to override the Harvard Faculty on matters of education...
...wait-and-see process has not brought encouraging news-the reports on undergraduate education at Yale and Princeton left legacies of mostly failure, mixed with a modicum of success. Those results shed a considerable amount of light on what kind of results the task forces might obtain when they pass their general and specific recommendations to the Faculty...
...committee and emerged two years later with a new 252-page report that some members of the committee call considerably diluted from Bressler's originally bold recommendations. Neal Rudenstine, in the dean's office at Princeton and a member of the Bressler commission now calls that final report a success because a number of its recommendations were implemented, including a proposal for equal access admissions. "The report also provided us with an extraordinary inventory and assessment-it was very worth-while," Rudenstine says...
Daniel Seltzer, a Harvard professor of English for 15 years before going to Princeton and a member of the commission, says the later report was a success. Seltzer mentions, however, that some key provisions - including important changes in the academic calender, language requirement, and core curriculum - were killed because "a lot of important professors on campus were against" Of the debate on core curriculum Seltzer says, "more lobbying with the faculty could have been done before this recommendation was promulgated," to achieve better results...
Although the degree of success of the report may be debatable, not one of the committee members interviewed had any regrets about undertaking the study. Most considered the report valuable at least for discussion and inventory purposes. It is very important to stop everything once in a while and evaluate the college and assess it, Simmons says today. "It is difficult to come up with a better alternative within the reasonable economic framework...