“I think the recommendation will be to shift the culture, to make more opportunities [for intellectual exploration], but in the end students are going to be a very, very active group in deciding how much things actually change,” he says. “Their actual behavior is going to determine how much things generally change.”
Harris illustrates this point by saying that if the proposal for a concentration choice in sophomore year becomes policy, students must use their free semesters wisely.
“If students resist the opportunity to explore, if they use their electives in their concentration, as some might, so be it.”
—Staff writer Joshua D. Gottlieb can be reached at jdgottl@fas.harvard.edu.
—Staff writer William C. Marra can be reached at wmarra@fas.harvard.edu.