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While Janeway accomplished a great deal in the laboratory, his passion for science also transferred into the classroom...
...outspoken advocates for extracurricular arts activity. Meanwhile, curricular review—stirred in part by Summers’ stated desire to “assure that the academic experience is at the center of the college experience”—could create new artistic opportunities in the classroom, but College administrators fear this might diminish opportunities for more amateur participation in the arts. And given the University’s longstanding discomfort with the role of the arts in an academic curriculum, many in the arts community worry that Summers will not prioritize its interests...
...aren’t an intellectual process. Several people suggested the arts are in a place similar to where laboratory sciences were a century ago. In the 19th century, scientific research would never have received academic credit; only the study of the history of science was material for the classroom. Some study of the practice arts emerged at the recommendation of the 1955 Brown Report, a still-cited product of a committee on the visual arts at Harvard chaired by John Nicholas Brown. The Brown report attempted to debunk what it called “the myth of the inspired...
Arts administrators say the upcoming curricular review provides an opportunity to reconsider the role of arts in a university’s curriculum. They talk of “integration,” finding ways to incorporate the arts into other classroom settings, thereby giving many more students a taste of culture. But some—like Bergmann—worry that out of the four committees Gross has set up, there’s no obvious place to discuss the arts. The committees include no artists other than Arnheim Lecturer on Filmmaking Robb Moss...
After the combine, Morris returned to campus and has gotten back in the classroom...