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Associate Dean of the College Jeffrey Wolcowitz, who oversees the curricular review, acknowledged in March that the working group on students’ overall academic experience was tentatively considering the idea of Yale-style housing, which assigns first-years to upperclass Houses before they arrive at Harvard. The proposal would allow students to use those Houses’ advising resources—resident tutors who are graduate students from most of the departments—before actually moving to the House as sophomores...
Associate Dean of the College Jeffrey Wolcowitz is currently writing the curricular review’s report, which will include specific recommendations and broad proposals from the four working groups that have been reviewing the curriculum since spring...
...general education proposal will be presented to the Faculty at their May 4 meeting in a report authored by Associate Dean of the College Jeffrey Wolcowitz. Along with the rest of the review’s proposals, it will be debated by the Faculty this Spring and throughout next year, with a final vote likely a year from...
Like a band of traveling salesmen hawking their wares, Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 and Associate Dean of the College Jeffrey Wolcowitz have gone House to House to discuss their ongoing review of the College curriculum. But there’s something slightly off about their sales pitch. For one, they won’t quite let students see inside those briefcases of merchandise that they keep describing in such alluring terms. There’s a good reason for this: the earth-shattering review we’ve been told about...
...report penned by Wolcowitz based on the committees’ work is due in May, but don’t expect anything earth-shattering. The committees are set up with broad tasks that seem more suited to re-evaluating the administrative processes of pedagogy, not the fundamental questions of education. While Rosovsky’s committees centered around intellectual inquiries—“Historical Study,” “Literature and Arts” and the other core areas we all know and love—this review is ill-defined and is suited to revising...