Word: whitlock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard alumni would object to reductions in the number of men and that Radcliffe alumnae would object to the combined process as just another example of the "Jonah concept"--Harvard swallowing up Radcliffe. But those objections never materialized. "I haven't heard of anyone who was upset," Charles P. Whitlock, associate dean for special projects and a member of the Strauch Committee, says...
...which is composed of five Faculty Council members and five students from the Educational Resources Group (ERG). Since the Faculty Council members are elected in May of the preceding academic year, it would seem logical to assign faculty to the CUE at the same time. But Charles P. Whitlock, associate dean of the Faculty, who assigns Faculty Council members to subcommittees such as CUE, explains he doesn't ask Faculty Council members which subcommittees they would like to serve on until late September. He admits he might run into complications if the Council membership changes over the summer...
...MEANTIME the Faculty should take certain steps to improve CUE's effectiveness. For one, Whitlock should make it clear to Faculty Council members who volunteer for CUE what the commitment entails. Perhaps such a warning would discourage the Cromptons who have better things to do from joining the committee. Faculty members should also understand the issues CUE considers. McClave, for instance, says she did not speak up at the CUE discussions on the Core two years ago because she was "not well-acquainted with the Core legislation." This is incredible considering that CUE discussed nothing but the Core that year...
...similar to that, Dinklage says. Harvard began testing for the disability in the '60s, when administrators wanted to know why a few hard-working students would continually fail language classes, Dinklage says. Before then, students had been referred to language testing experts in the Boston area, Charles P. Whitlock, associate dean of the Faculty for special projects, says...
...help immediately spot any students with potential language problems, Dinklage says. That way, students can be tested for language disability before they have to take the language requirement. "There is a phenomenon by which the longer some students study a language, the lower they score on language tests," Whitlock says...