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...Undergraduate Education [CUF] and the Faculty Council were sympathetic to the purpose of that requirement, but hesitated to create a system that requires the allocation of courses to areas after the General Education fields disappear." Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education and chief author of the new legislation Steven E. Ozment wrote in a report to the Faculty last week...
...making. Three years ago, a proposal by then-Dean for Undergraduate Education Sidney Verba '53 was blocked on the floor of a Faculty meeting. The Faculty returned the proposal to the CUF for further study. The issue of reform seemed destined to languish in a bureaucratic twilight zone until Ozment entered University Hall in September and revived the cause...
...again this year, most of the debate centered on the debate centered on the merits of a so called mercy clause allowing students to discard a few of their lowest grades. Neither the Verba plan not the successful Ozment plan included such a provision...
Defending his proposal before the faculty. Ozment observed rightly that the Administrative Board has the power to compensate for low marks "when circumstances rather than ability" influence a student's performance. Mistakes are part of life, and a consistently solid record will balance a few blemishes, the dean added. His arguments were apparently convincing...
Armed with the original data, about a dozen professors and several departments this fall sent letters to Ozment complaining that the Guide's course reviews were too subjective...