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...that liberates us." [3] Montaigne was referring to a process whereby previously unexplored beliefs and values are challenged as well as unsuspected dimensions of the self discovered and nurtured in order that students may become "wiser and better" for themselves and for society. Liberal education presumes that a broad education will liberate the individual by offering opportunities for foundational knowledge, reflection and analysis, artistic creativity and an appreciation for the precision of scientific concepts and experiments. It stresses Bildung over Übung, emphasizing disinterested knowledge for its own sake, resisting pressures for early specialization and professionalization. Professional education...
...This broad scrutiny of our collective teaching endeavor is now in its third year. The time has come to move forward with our formal deliberations and toward the legislation that we think appropriate in the light of the recommendations these reports incorporate. In the coming semester we will set before the Faculty the recommendations first on concentrations and then on general education. We will hear further on the recommendations on writing and speaking. We will bear in mind the implications of all of these for the recommendations on advising, which colleagues have already received. If, after we have discussed...
While the letter did not lay out a concrete schedule of when the Faculty will vote on elements of the review, Kirby did suggest a broad outline of the order in which reports will be discussed at Faculty meetings in the coming semester...
That vote will be followed by debate on the Report of the Committee on General Education, which called for drastically reworking the undergraduate curriculum by eliminating the Core and replacing it with a combination of broad distribution requirements and optional “foundational courses...
Aside from briefly summarizing the eight curricular review reports, Kirby’s five page letter touched on several broad themes in the review: the desire to “re-commit our Faculty to the central task of educating undergraduates,” a focus on “resisting pressures for early specialization and professionalization,” and a need for a “curriculum of choice, incentive, and opportunity...