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...film studies courses would remain in their own departments but would count towards the still-undetermined requirements for VES?? film studies concentrators. In addition to adding some number of new film studies courses to VES?? offerings, faculty say, the major task of the new concentration option will be setting up these requirements, giving a bureaucratic skeleton to the decentralized array of courses in film studies at Harvard, which they say has grown sharply in recent years...
...already and plans to meet three more times this semester. The committee is charged with hammering out the nuts and bolts of what will eventually be a proposal to the VES department, which will be able to approve, deny or send the proposal back for revisions. If approved by VES??which Rentschler says he hopes will happen by the end of the current calendar year—the film studies plan would come before the Educational Policy Committee...
...VES??s financial support is behind it all. Dovey obtains her equipment from the department, which provides a stipend to individual juniors and seniors. This is a substantial help, students say, since a ten-minute roll of film can cost hundreds of dollars to purchase and develop independently. Besides lending cameras to video-focused students like Dovey, the department also provides unlimited rolls of 16 millimeter film for those not shooting with digital cameras...
...dean the following day, “I had hoped that our visiting committee review would at least elicit some dialogue about our most pressing issues.” By removing Phelan as chair mid-semester, Knowles has thus avoided for the present this critical dialogue regarding VES??s pressing issues. In addition, though Phelan and other faculty have provided the new chair selected by the dean with their support, the new chair has neither expertise nor experience in the field, and it is unknown how or when this dialogue will occur. You write that...
...that some faculty called students and staff obscene names, hired them to run personal chores and errands, and publicly criticized them for their perceived personal and professional failings, which they say one faculty member meticulously recorded. Phelan, who lives in New York City and was only at VES?? Carpenter Center a few days a week, was criticized for her absenteeism and dismissive administrative style...