Word: ves
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...among the 24 students whose application to transfer to the Visual and Environmental Studies concentration this fall was denied. The reason for this, according to the VES department, is a shortage of faculty and teaching space, caused by insufficient funding from the central administration. If it can be considered the administrators' responsibility to distribute funds to best meet student needs, then in the case of VES they have, I believe, distressingly failed to meet this responsibility. Denying students such a fundamental educational privilege as a free selection of a field of study is a major hindrance to academic growth...
...situation reveals an apparent misplacement of priorities in Harvard's educational program. By refusing to adjust funding to accommodate long-term changes in student interests (VES has been oversubscribed for at least five years, according to the department). Harvard is forcing its students to conform to a pre-ordained distribution of fields rather than responding to changes in educational needs. Whether a students concentrates (or takes a course) in history or VES should be a decision based on the student's own educational objectives, not on the monetary cost of teaching the subject. Yet by under funding relatively costly departments...
Bikanowsky cited physical space constraints of Carpenter Center - VES main building--as the chief limiting factor in the department...
...problems of VES 40 are not unusual in the department. All VES studio courses, for example, have to turn away students each year and most are overcrowded VES Chairman Louis J. Bakunowsky said yesterday...
Today's petition was signed by two-thirds of the students who were denied entrance in to VES...