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...Rather than banish students to this no man’s land, the Faculty should aim to develop a foundational course required of all students not exempt from their QR requirement. Such a course would be devoted to equipping students with both the statistical vocabulary and the higher math techniques needed to navigate both policy- and model-oriented courses. Taken during students’ first year, this course would prepare students for the twenty-first century...
...decision to blur the line between two educational eras, however, seems less like an easygoing brand of understanding and more like a collective vote of “no confidence” in the much-heralded replacement to the broken Core. What is more, this freedom of choice may banish our new enrollees to bureaucratic quicksand, as a rocky curricular transition will likely leave them with neither substantial course selection nor the guidance to make essential academic decisions...
...preliminary report from the Task Force on General Education, has quickly ceded to a nebulous, uninspiring hodgepodge of academic disciplines that demonstrates little in the way of a singular, motivating, guiding philosophy. The consequences of this decline are profoundly troublesome, as a slow start to Gen Ed threatens to banish incoming classes of Harvard undergraduates to an incoherent education. To hasten the development of Gen Ed, incoming Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds must refocus Gen Ed around a meaningful educational philosophy. In their preliminary report a year and a half ago, the chairs of the Task Force...
...stories, most of which ought to be neither trivialized nor ignored. But at the end of the day, the outrage from current Harvard students has been somewhat surprising. After all, it was out of attentiveness to undergraduates’ direct personal interests that the administration made the decision to banish transfers. Just three days prior to the move, rising seniors in Winthrop House had been casually informed that, thanks to a looming Malthusian crisis, the cushy senior suites they’d be expecting would be replaced by bunk beds and partitioned common rooms. The Crimson lamented this...
...marketing director overseeing a “full-service marketing and design center?” Why does a department of a non-profit need a Director for Business Planning and Development? And why, oh why, has the intellectual home of Larry Summers and Harvey Mansfield been allowed to banish the free market from what has always been the basic building block of the human economy: food. The time is long past for a change. Students, faculty, and most of all house masters and resident deans need to band together, come up with a reasonable solution, and strip control...