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...from students should appear online to be accessed by perusing Harvard students—with particularly telling responses excerpted and included in the course write-ups—as well as the statistics from the course’s rating results. An integration of the online course catalogue, class syllabi and a revamped CUE guide would also be an effective tool—giving students a variety of necessary class-selection resources at their fingertips...
...described his recent dreams of a university plagued by commercialization, beginning with the acceptance of a $2 billion loan from an alum and listing a series of schemes—including placement of corporate logos on syllabi and an auction giving 100 spots in Harvard College to the highest bidders...
...while fluctuating course enrollments may be a serious annoyance to professors, most agree that they are able to hire qualified teaching fellows anyway, who excel even if they missed the first class of the year. Teaching fellows are capable of reading syllabi at home, and can make up the first staff meeting of the course with the professor...
Kirby’s plan requires that individual Faculty members take the initiative and force graduate students to prepare before the semester begins, a plan that would require an unprecedented degree of faculty cooperation. University Hall will also require their cooperation getting their syllabi and course descriptions online a full month before the current deadline, so that students will be able to have something to go on when they choose their classes; faculty will “be encouraged” to return more graded work to students earlier in the semester so students will have a better sense...
Students have also expressed concern that the requirement to register early will force them to commit to classes without adequate information. Though professors will be encouraged to post their syllabi online prior to the preregistration deadline, the administration cannot required them to do this, Wolcowitz says...