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...don’t like to do unless it’s obvious that they don’t fit the Gen Ed mandate,” says Gen Ed committee member Edward J. Hall, who adds that he wishes that the body had the money to give professors summer stipends to create new courses. Since more classes still need to be developed, the Gen Ed committee will not allow caps on course enrollment (originally a tenet of the program) in front-of-the-book Gen Ed classes for the next few years because the menu of Gen Ed courses...
...early roadblock to incorporating courses during this period was identifying faculty members who would be willing to teach during J-Term, as the idea was met with some resistance among the faculty, especially from those who would already be losing research time as a result of a condensed summer break.But Reva P. Minkoff ’08, a student representative on the Conley committee, says that the body had anticipated that these issues would be resolved in time to implement J-Term programming as early as 2007.MORE PRESSING MATTERSThis effort was sidetracked as J-Term was overshadowed by more high...
...making our unfolding plans a reality.”A year and a half later, with the world fully steeped in financial turmoil, that report in the Boston Globe—which suggested that Faust was distancing herself from the confrontational, fast-moving style of her predecessor, Lawrence H. Summers, and rethinking the University’s outsized Allston plans—seems remarkably prescient. The University has not only struggled to make ends meet in an unprecedented fiscal crisis, but it has also reined in its visionary—and what some have criticized as financially irresponsible?...
...could be made into a student center.Flores seemed to struggle to find her voice on the issue, vacillating between being a neutral facilitator and opposing the plan—but on the day the capital campaign prevailed, her face was one of clear disappointment. Over the course of the summer, four students hired by the UC will devote their energies to the capital campaign. The Council has made no formal agreement with the owners of any property as of yet, but a 45 Mt. Auburn St. property owned by the Foundation for Civic Leadership has been the only location discussed...
...Institute has not planned or budgeted for reductions in student work opportunities during the summer or regular school year of FY 10,” he says...