Word: core
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...faculty members also disputed a proposal for "departmental substitution," which would allow more introductory departmental courses to count for Core credit...
This argument is at the core of Bennett's indictments of higher education. Harvard's endowment skyrockets but so does tuition, he says. At the same time the quality of undergraduate education has dropped across the country, he says. Bennett uses these points to argue that colleges and universities are a big business that no longer delivers on the product...
...STILL wonder: Why do we have to go through with it at all? According to the Core Curriculum pamphlet, the purpose of the computer exam is "to teach students how to use a computer, enabling them to understand its capabilities and limitations." Does it fulfill its purpose...
...committee on the Core Requirement really wants students to achieve computer literacy, as well as competence in dealing with numbers and statistics, the QRR should be restructured. The Committee could incorporate quantitative reasoning skills into the Science A core requirement, or as the Undergraduate Council has proposed, add a computer and math option to the Core. Or perhaps a series of required minicourses could be established. In any case, the QRR should be either intensified or abolished. As it is, it serves no purpose and merely wastes time...
Although the story of the Board's founding is filled with coincidences and improbable twists of fate, ultimately the saga serves only to confirm Harvard's love of chance. Engendered in the Housing Lottery and confirmed in random assignments to the final, needed-for-graduation core class, the arbitrary hand of fate plays a crucial, yet romantic, role in the lives of Harvard undergraduates...