“When the report comes out next week it is absolutely crucial that students read it and share their reactions with UC reps, the review committees and administrators,” he said.

A recommendation that promises to significantly change undergraduate life calls for the College to discard the Core.

“The report recommends that the Core be replaced with a distributional requirement that would be spread over fewer areas of study...but with a greater number of requirements,” the source said.

Despite the greater number of requirements, courses taken for concentration credit and as electives would count as distribution credits.

The source said the report will also recommend the creation of Harvard College Courses—survey or interdisciplinary courses that do not fit neatly within specific concentrations—that would also fulfill distribution requirements.

The summary also recommends moving the concentration choice deadline from its current position at the end of the first year to midway through sophomore year, the source said.

Though a January term was not specifically mentioned, the summary did “recommend an alignment of the academic calendar [with Harvard’s graduate schools] and therefore a unique January experience,” the source said.

The report will also suggest that all students should be expected to have an “international experience” that could include research, study abroad or summer work.

The freshman seminar program would be expanded so that every interested first-year could enroll.

Gross declined to comment on the report yesterday.

—Staff writer William C. Marra can be reached at wmarra@fas.harvard.edu