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Sure, The Crimson covered the report’s release, and Undergraduate Council (UC) representatives were enlisted to distribute copies in their Houses. But without any follow-up activity, the story disappeared from this newspaper’s pages, and the report has languished in unappealing piles in the Houses of the few representatives who actually picked up their copies...
...UC’s other recent offerings have been slim pickings, at best. Last semester, one open forum was organized, but was never followed up. The UC apparently took the reasonably good turnout at the event as a sign of success and moved on. It never occurred to anyone that an ongoing series of engagements with undergraduates might be a good way to keep students involved. In particular cases, some UC members’ inactivity has become negligence; when University Hall staffers distributed copies of the curricular review’s most recent reports in dining halls last spring, fully...
...undergraduates brought in late in the process. Since its release, the draft has had more of an impact on campus paper waste than on students’ thinking, simply because nothing has been done to mobilize student opinion. There has not been another forum, no response from UC leaders, no roundtable discussions. The curricular review may be old news, but these recommendations could well be voted into reality soon. If we don’t have our say now, we will miss our chance to shape the future of Harvard’s undergraduate education...
More importantly, while the primary stakeholders in the new curriculum have yet to enroll, we have a responsibility as their forebears to inject undergraduate concerns into the discussions that will shape their education here after it affects our own. In the weeks ahead, the UC must start engaging undergraduates in the process of shaping the General Education report. Campus-wide forums and dinnertime discussions in House dining halls attended by the faculty members responsible for the new proposal would be a good start. A short, readable summary and commentary on the report should be drafted by UC leaders and distributed...
...refunded money? The current system levels the playing field and opens the door to the entrepreneurs who want to personally contribute to the campus; students can opt in or opt out of the fee depending on their whims or financial status, but none will be turned away from a UC-funded event because of that fact. The termination or even the minimization of FiCom would threaten the variety and multitude of activities that makes Harvard what it is; the growth of FiCom’s budget can only improve on the status...