Word: problems
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...makes decision-making harder. Students don't know where to turn first or who to believe--the Bureau of Study Councel or their department adviser, their senior or head tutor, UHS Mental Health Services or Room 13, the Freshman Task Force, or Students Helping Students. One of Harvard's problems, Epps says, is that "no one seems to be an authoritative source of information," a problem "inherent in the problems of bureaucracy." He adds that one of his goals is "to be an authoritative source of information, to tell students how Harvard works...
...fact, while McCue was still dean-designate last year, he helped resolve the School's most prominent problem--the years-long struggle over the direction of the department of City and Regional Planning (CRP) at the GSD--with one swift and dramatic stroke. McCue's boldness surprised many observers, but most believed it to be a logical response to the strife that has surrounded CRP for the past five years. Since John F. Kain, professor of Economics, took over as chairman of CRP in 1975, the department has taken an unabashedly nontraditional approach to urban planning. He shook...
...receive Kennedy School degrees. McCue says it's too soon to know whether the absence of an urban planning program at the Design School for the next couple of years will reduce the number of applicants the the GSD. He adds, "My sense is that there will be no problem...
...quick as his efforts to cure the CRP problem were, McCue says that the development of a faculty for the new department will probably begin in 1981-82, the year after the establishment of a curriculum. He adds that, logistically, the Design School will not be able to start the new urban planning program until CRP moves out of Gund Hall to facilities at the Kennedy School. And McCue does not expect CRP to be able to move out until 1982, when the Kennedy School finds room for them in their headquarters...
...notion of reviewing courses with a specific set of guidelines in mind before approving them is a departure from normal Harvard procedure. Part of the problem with the General Education program was that the committees governing it could not say no to their colleagues who wanted to offer courses, says Glen W. Bowersock '57, associate dean of the Faculty for undergraduate education. The Core, observes Solbrig, has higher standards...