ERG Will Compile Undergrads' Views On Current Issues

The Educational Resources Group (ERG), a student subcommittee of the Committee on Undergraduate Education, is distributing questionnaires to all undergraduates this week in order to compile data on students' priorities in five areas of College life.

The group is gathering student opinions about Harvard's athletic facilities, faculty student relations, grading policy, the academic calendar and possible changes in the University's policy on credit work done at other institutions.

Howard A. Kahn '78, a member of the ERG, said yesterday that the subcommittee chose the five areas of inquiry after considering which issues are "most salient to the student body, parallel to the issues brought up in Dean Rosovsky's letter to the faculty."

Survey

Kahn said that the group hopes to survey a majority of students so they can "take this to the deans and say. 'This is what the students want,"' in these areas.

"Nobody's been able to do this in previous years because nobody's asked all the students what they think on these issues," Kahn said.

Dean K. Whitla, director of the Office of Instructional Research and Evaluation, said yesterday that the survey is timely because it focuses on three or four issues on which decisions will be made by the Faculty Council and other groups in the near future. Whitla helped compose the questionnaire.

Calendar Reform

Dean Pipkin's Faculty Council subcommittee on calendar reform will examine the survey's findings before it reports to the council, Whitla said.

Pipkin was unavailable for comment last night.

The ERG plans to hold open meetings this week in the Houses to deal with issues that are not dealt with on the questionnaire, including departmental courses, the general education program. House seminars, classes in the performing arts, and counseling resources for students.