Word: summering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...defending the practice of closing under-enrolled courses, administrators note that only 10 percent of the Summer School's students are Harvard undergraduates. Courses are offered not to fill requirements, they say, but because students are interested in them...
Buck adds that when Harvard undergraduates had to pay to take a fifth or sixth course, many students took classes for degree during the summer. During that time courses remained in the curriculum regardless of student interest...
When undergraduate attendance at the Summer School dropped in the 1970s, the program began a policy of open admissions. Anyone who applies--and who can pay the $975 fee for each course--may attend summer classes...
Each fall, Buck consults with the department chairs to plan summer courses for their disciplines. Because the courses can be taken for degree credit, they must be approved by the department heads and the Faculty Council. The official expectation is that the classes will be as difficult as Harvard's term-time offerings...
While many on the faculty say they are not certain that the Summer School courses are on par with term-time offerings, supporters of the Summer School say the radically different structure of the summer program makes comparison difficult...