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During the controversy over Core curriculum reform this year, former Dean of Undergraduate Education Lawrence Buell suggested to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) that the Core begin to incorporate small, seminar-style courses instead of the traditionally huge lecture classes...
Kishlansky read calculations predicting that adopting Buell's plan would require 451 senior Faculty to teach in the Core every other year. Current senior Faculty number...
...Buell said he feared that without the chance to encounter professors up close, students could be "socialized irretrievably into a culture of avoidance and (at worst) passive consumerism...
...Buell's critics included Professor of History Mark Kishlansky, who said he was sorry to be the hydroelectric plant to Buell's Don Quixote...
...Fitzpatrick opposed Buell's proposal on the basis that its small size would exclude many undergraduates...