“We need some consistent way for students across the College to say, ‘This is missing from my department, this is missing from my experience here,’” Chopra said.

“The curriculum ought to be more diverse and more responsive to students...so we are trying to create more ways for students to reflect on what they need,” he said in an interview later.

Suggestions about how to elicit such information included an online forum in which students could post their opinions, adding new language to the Student Handbook encouraging the sharing of such information and a letter from the Dean’s office asking for feedback.

CUE members voiced their approval of Chopra and Adams’ idea, saying it would help keep the curriculum current.

“You [the students] know what your peers are doing, what other institutions are doing, what the zeitgeist is,” said Professor of Psychology Mahzarin R. Banaji.

The final agenda item involved the institution of an informal House advising night to take place in each House. Mahan, who presented the proposal, suggested that the meeting take place between lottery day and the deadline for declaring concentrations.

“A lot of things that week are just centered around social events,” he said, “but if we really want to make the Houses a whole system, we can make them an academic force as well.”

The idea is still in the developing stages, but Mahan said the SAC plans to organize further and resume the discussion with the CUE at a later meeting.

—Staff writer Laura L. Krug can be reached at krug@fas.harvard.edu.