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Mountains of data collected from a general curriculum review launched last fall are now being studied, says Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education David Pilbeam, who headed the curriculum review. Among the data collected, though not yet tabulated, is information about the size, composition and content of tutorials across Harvard's 42 departments...
...used to have far greater faculty involvement than we have now," says Professor of History and former Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education Steven Ozment. "Students seem to like this, though. You can't argue with success--but I'm pleased there seems to be some action...
...minority faculty issue, though undeniably important, is not the ideal rallying point for campus activists. Student pressure can be only minimally effective at improving the diversity of the Faculty. The multitude of obstacles to remedying Harvard's Faculty woes, notably the dearth of qualified minority Ph.D candidates nationwide, make a quick solution nearly impossible. It is a long-term problem requiring a correspondingly long-term remedy...
...Even though my thesis-writing days are behind me, I have been following the progress of the Government Department's attempt to deal with its shortage of thesis advisors, and I was quite dismayed when I found out that the Department has initiated an 11.5 minimum departmental GPA requirement for prospective thesis writers beginning with the Class of 1994 ["Gov Faces Thesis Advisor Shortage," March 19, "Government Adds GPA Requirement to Honors Track," April...
...glutton for punishment? Perhaps so. I took more challenging and more interesting courses, and I wound up having to explain to my parents why my departmental GPA was almost two points lower than my overall GPA. Just the though of having to run through all those arguments once again is somewhat off-putting, which is precisely what Government had in mind when it chose to initiate its honors GPA requirement...