Word: groups
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...post-World War II class protested the College's deteriorating advising system loudly enough that the Faculty saw fit to launch a study, now in the files under the title "Bender Report," which recognizes that a mere handful of people were shouldering the advising burden and recommended creating group tutorials and senior tutors. But College advising's troubles remained unshaken and in 1969 the Homans report remarked that tutors still believed they had little time to tackle "their main job, communicating with students and advising them...
...students want to know more than how Harvard works. Though some students do fall into the two extreme groups Fox cites--at one pole requesting only factual information, at the other demanding that the University make decisions for them--most fall into the middle group, wanting that elusive Faculty contact simply because they believe their education will improve by spending time with professors...
However, some faculty members have expressed anxiety about the merger. Kain, who will remain as chairman of CRP under the Kennedy School, says, "It's not the easiest thing to work with a group of people for so many years in the Design School and develop close working relationships and then have to leave them." Many junior faculty members fear the Kennedy School will swallow up the department. Shapiro says, "Over the long term, I think it's a reasonable expectation that CRP will lose its identity and become part of the mass of Kennedy School programs...
While Rupp's proposal would group the seven departments into three divisions--with the working titles of Scripture; Christianity in Relation to Culture, Society and Personality; and Religions of the World, with required distribution courses in each--the faculty's proposal would add the methodology for studying in each of these fields. Rupp and the faculty combined their ideas and sent their new model to an eight-man Div School steering committee. First results will be back in October...
...group, which also staged protests outside reunion activities on Saturday, objects to MIT's large land purchases over the past decade in the Cambridgeport section of the city...