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Today, the Faculty will begin to take on the central and difficult question of what students should know to graduate from Harvard. The Task Force on General Education has produced a serious and thoughtful answer to this question. It has proposed that the College train students for citizenship in a global society and, to that end, require students to take courses in ten diverse areas from reason and faith to analytical reasoning. I fear, however, that the proposal goes too far in rejecting the Core Curriculum’s “approaches to knowledge” in favor...
Members of Bush's party spent much of this year deriding and stonewalling his compromise plan for reforming immigration policy, which called for enhanced border security along with a path to citizenship for certain working immigrants. A Democratic Congress is much more likely to craft a Bush-style solution. Bush and the Democrats may well start with modest reforms like the AgJobs bill, an attempt by Senators from both parties to normalize the immigrant farm-labor economy. It stalled in the House this year...
...thanks to the democratization and coarsening of culture, hardly anyone reads the classics of the Western canon anymore (the pragmatist will object that at least they can read, as well as feed their families). A familiarity with canonical texts is no longer considered an essential prerequisite of citizenship in our society. More and more, humanities departments are resembling Swift’s fanciful flying island of Laputa, in which abstracted philosophers hover over the common people, lost in sterile speculative dreaming. Indeed, the Harvard Task Force on General Education has ratified this irrelevance by subjugating the study of literature...
...subsidiary of Citibank, under which Citibank would be granted preferred lender status. While international students can receive direct subsidized loans from HBS, the school also advertises CitiAssist loans, which have higher interest rates than the Federal Direct Stafford/Ford Loans and the Federal Perkins Loan, but are available regardless of citizenship status and have more flexible credit requirements...
...Societies of the World,” “Reason and Faith,” “Life Science,” and “Physical Science.” The report says that knowledge of these areas is essential to citizenship. One student questioned if “Reason and Faith” should be taught at a secular university. In response to student concerns that the report didn’t give sufficient attention to science and math, Simmons said, “It’s important...to think not only about the practical...