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Professor of Government Lisa M. Martin, co-chair of the Committee on the Overall Academic Experience, said she was not surprised by the concern about the calendar changes...
Today the Faculty will hear about a proposed new academic calendar which would move fall semester exams to before winter break and create a month-long term in January...
...calendar, which will be presented by the Curricular Review’s working group on pedagogy at the Faculty’s monthly meeting—within a larger presentation on the current progress of the curricular review—would put Harvard on what is known as a “4-1-4” schedule...
Most of the other Ivies operate on a two-term system—with first semester exams before the holidays—but schools such as Cornell, MIT and Williams, which currently use the 4-1-4 calendar, offer their students the opportunity to take short, intense classes, work on research projects, and participate in artistic programs during a January term...
...calendar would synchronize the Faculty of Arts and Science’s schedule with most of the University’s other schools, whose students are registering for spring classes when undergraduates are taking their fall exams...