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Although it will not be a priority, the forummay also touch on the council's recent CoreCurriculum report, which calls for the abolitionof the Quantitative Reasoning Requirement, anincrease in courses offered in the Core, and theaddition of a mathematics and computer Science Cselection to allow students to bypass Science...
Council chairman Richard S. Eisert '88, who last Friday discussed tonight's agenda with Bok, said the president will also answer questions concerning the recent council reports on tenure, the Core Curriculum, University investment policy and the establishment of a student center...
...other (to him) immutable concepts in thousands of seminars across the country. "By the fact that I started to teach," he says, "I discovered school is not an education." Nor, by his lights, is college. In his view, virtually all colleges have given up the essential liberal-arts core curriculum, which now barely survives in what Adler considers relatively pure form at a few scattered schools, like St. John's in Maryland...
...young professor at the University of Chicago, with its bellwether development of a liberal-arts core, Adler would have seemed to be in his element. But his freewheeling style so offended colleagues in the philosophy department that his friend and patron, President Robert Maynard Hutchins, had to tuck Adler into the law school, where he held the informal title of Professor of Blue Sky. He has always cherished the role of what he calls a "non grata in academe," preferring to communicate his message, largely through his books, to America at large. He has done so with such success that...
...beside the newcomers to Costello, the audience certainly had its share of long-time, hard-core fans...