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...proposed system of general education would enable driven students to select the broad education that fits them best, but has the inherent danger of enabling some students to avoid challenging or unfamiliar academic territory. The extent to which the Faculty would be willing to risk such flexibility stands as the greatest question surrounding general education’s future at Harvard...
...nice option,” said Sameer Lakha ’09, “one that I would hopefully not need to use.” Nonetheless, Brush believes that there is enough consumer demand to warrant the changes. “We do feel there is very broad support and a need for Felipe’s to be open,” he said. “It’s difficult to staff and run a business at those late hours. But, we feel it’s worthwhile and we’re certainly willing...
...events during the first half of 2005,” when the Faculty voted that they lacked confidence in his leadership and Summers drew nationwide criticism for his remarks on the intrinsic aptitude of women in science. But he quickly pushed forward by identifying nine priorities that covered broad swaths of the University and seemingly left no issue, large or small, unmentioned...
Summers wrote extensively, though only in broad terms, about the University’s expansion into Boston’s Allston neighborhood, by far the most ambitious project of his presidency. Committing to a rough timetable, Summers wrote that the first phase of development in Allston was “likely to be carried out over the next 10 to 15 years,” which could amount to the remainder of Summers’ tenure, if he serves as long as many of his predecessors...
...that general education should be about learning “methods” rather than absorbing a body of knowledge. The committee’s proposals address the shortcomings of the Core in two ways. First, the committee recommends a new structure of distribution requirements, grouping them into three broad categories instead of 11 core areas. The committee envisions that this “three-by-three” setup, where students will have to take three courses in the two categories outside of their concentration, will be complemented by effort on behalf of departments to make some of their...