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Many influential department and committee chairs oppose the lack of moral reasoning and quantitative reasoning requirements in the November report of the Harvard College Curricular Review’s General Education Committee, according to informal minutes of Caucus of Chairs’ meetings...
...While individual professors and students have criticized the lack of moral and quantitative reasoning requirements, at events such as a Nov. 16 forum for faculty and students and the Nov. 23 meeting of the full Faculty, the Caucus meeting minutes obtained by the Crimson provide the first evidence of how widespread such feelings are within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...Chairs understood the importance of choice, but maintained that a certain kind of radical or completely unstructured choice abdicates our responsibility as educators,” read the minutes of the Nov. 10 meeting of the Caucus, which was attended by representatives of the General Education Committee...
...minutes do not attribute comments to individual members of the Caucus, but provide an outline of the discussions that occurred at their meetings throughout the early months of the semester...
...members of the General Education Committee present at the Nov. 10 Caucus meeting were Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby, Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71, and Johnstone Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker...