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[Extension School dean] Michael Shinagel ... made the proposal last year April. The UC had surely questioned his suggestion (as they do for anything) but also agreed and supported his proposal.
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No, the UC
denounced Shinagel's proposal. A committee of the UC unanimously recommended, and the UC passed by a margin of about 10-to-1, an "affirmation of the integrity of FAS degrees" strongly opposing the proposed removal of the words Extension Studies from the HES degrees.
The resolution can be found at:
http://www.uc.fas.harvard.edu/counci...20Sciences.pdf
Excerpt: "whereas the integrity of perception of the [Harvard College A.B.] degree may, in some contexts, be jeopardized if the expressed specificity of similar degrees granted for extension studies by Harvard Extension School is diminished ... be it therefore
resolved that the Harvard Undergraduate Council
express[es] its opposition to the proposed diminution of specificity on degrees granted in extension studies ... "
The Harvard Crimson quoted a professor, who had attended the faculty council where Shinagel proposed the change, as objecting that "misunderstandings might occur" if reference to Extension Studies were removed:
http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=513113