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...months later, the committee published a report embracing a University-wide calendar with a “4-1-4” schedule—two four-month semesters, with a one-month “J-term?? in between. But in the last two years of Summers’ tenure, the conversation on calendar reform stalled as FAS tackled general education legislation and a leadership crisis...
...changes. A UC-sponsored undergraduate referendum on calendar reform followed, in which 84 percent of the 3,467 students who participated voted in favor of the Council’s proposal. The UC plan drew heavily upon that of the Verba report, but it did not endorse a J-term??instead citing language from the earlier report providing for an alternate configuration...
...announced the creation of Verba’s cross-school committee.Six months later, the committee published a report embracing a University-wide calendar with a “4-1-4” schedule—two four-month semesters, with a one-month “J-term?? in between. But in the last two years of Summers’ tenure, the conversation on calendar reform stalled as FAS tackled general education legislation. Just before the curricular review came to completion this spring, the UC released a 10,000 word position paper documenting their proposed calendar...
...months later, the committee published a report embracing a University-wide calendar with a “4-1-4” schedule—two four-month semesters, with a ‘J-term?? in between. The new calendar would begin after Labor Day and would end in late May, making it slightly longer than the current academic year. But in the last two years of Summers’ tenure, the conversation on calendar reform stalled as the Faculty of Arts and Sciences tackled the general education portion of the curricular review...
...justify this move is to link up emissions with long-term??as opposed to short-term??security concerns. Climate change offers its own chilling set of bogeymen. The developing world is predicted to bear the brunt of climate change’s maladies, as rising temperatures exacerbate food shortages. The list of failed states will be a lot longer in 20 or 30 years if no action is taken. The prospect of millions of refugees, incensed at decades of American apathy, is scary enough to keep Pentagon planners up at night...