Word: programming
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EPPS holds a number of views which give his administrative functioning a personal identity. Primarily, he feels that undergraduates need to face a greater academic challenge in the College-the present four-year program, Epps believes, does not offer enough challenges. In particular, Epps is planning to correct this deficiency in the area of independent study, an area in which he has had numerous conflicts of opinion with students...
...study should be seen as a reading course, a tutorial, or just "a blank check." This year, Epps is asking supervisors to file reports on all independent study projects they are sponsoring, and he plans to ask the Faculty for new directions and new conceptions for the independent study program...
...past year with the drop in the stock market and student dislocations was not a good one in the major capital fund drives of this Faculty. The Program for Science in Harvard College only raised $2.4 million and remains almost $18 million short of its goal. The Harvard College Library Building Fund (for the Widener Library addition) raised $1 million-barely keeping up with the added costs of construction. The International Studies Building Fund raised virtually nothing...
...matter of the Faculty Committee on Social Studies, I see a number of students who would like to enter that program but cannot because its size is restricted. A few of these may find in the Special Concentration option a way to hand-tailor a serious program, or they may discover in pursuit of such a program that one or another existing department can house them with reasonable resiliency. (Some students enter the Social Studies Program, as they enter Harvard College, because it has quality and distinction, whose educational goals are not in fact furthered by that particular choice...
...amnesties of May, that curriculum may be disintegrating under the impact of Independent Study, Pass-Fail options, and generally softer or inflated grading. These faculty misgivings are not wholly irrational. But to vent them on a proposal that would demand serious examination of a student's idiosyncratic program creates a not uncommon union between pedagogic conservatives, who resent the symbolism of any change, and pedagogic rebels, whose visions of dramatic change differ so greatly among each other that I find it hard to imagine them agreeing on an alternative set of curricula. A good many students and some faculty would...