Word: wolcowitz
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...what the administration had in mind. Clearly, however, students often treat it as such. And when undergraduates choose not to spend their reading periods cramming, they use it to visit friends at other schools. To clarify matters here are the words of Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education Jeffrey Wolcowitz, (taken from an e-mail message), associate dean of undergraduate education: "Reading period is meant to be an integral part of the term, [it is not] not meant as a time to catch up after ignoring work during the term. Perhaps we should give it a different name...
...Rather than `bean-counting,' Faculty were asked to engage in an intellectual exercise, thinking about what it means for a student to gain a liberal arts education that includes concentration in that field and which requirements are really essential," wrote Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education Jeffrey Wolcowitz in an e-mail message...
...Rather than 'bean-counting,' Faculty were asked to engage in an intellectual exercise, thinking about what it means for a student to gain a liberal arts education that includes concentration in that field and which requirements are really essential," wrote Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education Jeffrey Wolcowitz in an e-mail message...
...Faculty Council first discussed the proposal last fall but tabled the matter because of concerns that eliminating the exemption violates a Faculty commitment to reducing requirements, Wolcowitz said yesterday...
Every committee that looked at this believed that educationally this was the right thing to do, but wanted to reiterate a commitment to finding ways to reduce overall requirements," Wolcowitz said. "We are not ignoring that issue...