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Miron said the course now features a stronger emphasis on multi-variable calculus than last year, when it was taught by the College’s chief planning officer, Jeffrey Wolcowitz. Multi-variable calculus is not a prerequisite for the course...
Economics 1010a is really Ec 10 with more curves to learn, no reading, and a teacher who might actually know who you are. It was previously taught by Jeffrey Wolcowitz, a rotund policy wonk who makes an effort to help his students and learn their names, even in a 300-person lecture class. Jeffrey A. Miron takes his place this year...
...Jeffrey Wolcowitz, senior lecturer in economics and former associate dean of Harvard College, highlighted the ways in which student behavior has nullified the intended effect of pass/fail. “Students are so concerned about their transcript that in many cases they’re reluctant to take courses pass/fail…and therefore don’t avail themselves of the option that we provide for them to take risks...
...Students are forced into an agonizing dilemma: risk getting a bad grade, or get locked into the certainty of a not-so-impressive-looking P on the transcript. In most cases, as Wolcowitz said, students avoid making that choice...
...left in the summer of 2003 after 22 years at Harvard. In September 2004, Dean of Freshmen Elizabeth Studley Nathans announced the end of her 12-year tenure at Harvard after being forced from her post, and, that same month, Associate Dean of the College Jeffrey Wolcowitz, who helped guide the College’s curricular review, abruptly stepped down from his University Hall position after 16 years in the building. In December, Doherty, a 10-year Harvard veteran who was associate dean of the College at the time, announced her intention to leave...