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"The university should not be just about facts; the emphasis should be on analysis," said Professor of History and of Women's Studies Olwen Hufton. "It's not a function of a university to make up the deficiencies of the [secondary] school."
The best solution to the problem, faculty and administrators say, is to attack it at its source by pressing secondary schools into raising their academic standards.
Jeffrey Wolcowitz, assistant dean for undergraduate education, said this week that Harvard "would want to give a clearer signal to [secondary] schools about what we think good preparation is and hope the schools will reform."
But it is questionable whether secondary schools, already facing shortages of teachers and funds, have the resources to answer the universities' calls for a reinvigorated curriculum. And, for now, Harvard and other prestigious colleges will continue to look for temporary solutions to a wide-ranging problem.
He also lists a dramatic fall-off in federal financial support for higher education, a breakdown in the "postwar consensus" backing the funding of scientific research and an impending shortage of professors nationwide.