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...think there’s long been some ambivalence—both among Faculty and students—about the value of time spent elsewhere as opposed to time spent at Harvard,” Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education Jeffrey Wolcowitz says. “But I think the balance has shifted and it’s time to reassess how we present ourselves to the world...
According to Wolcowitz, the first time that improving study abroad at Harvard was raised as an issue was during the 1949-1950 academic year, when students concentrating in certain areas such as Romance Languages in Literatures, Germanic Languages and Literature and Linguistics obtained the right to earn credit for work done abroad in their concentration...
...expectation was that it would be permitted for students to study language or a foreign culture—even if none of the work was going to be related to their particular concentration,” Wolcowitz says...
Over time, Wolcowitz says, the nature of the paperwork changed in an attempt to make the process simpler. For example, the requirement that students petitioning for study abroad had to get signatures from the heads of the departments of each course they were seeking to take was eliminated...
...said Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education Jeffrey Wolcowitz, it accomplished all this without any formal constitutional powers, simply using its accepted status as “Dean Knowles’ committee” and the members’ powers of “moral suasion” to achieve these results. One University Hall administrator says Knowles’ lesser reliance on formal consultative processes has enabled delicate issues to be discussed in greater detail and with better results due to the added privacy of unofficial channels...