Word: core
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...nearly a century, the University of Chicago has been known as a citadel of graduate education, a great research university, a "teacher of teachers." Its reputation has been as austere as its core curriculum. Undergraduates, traditionally a minority on campus, have earned a reputation as eggheads, grinds and worse. An edition of The Insider's Guide to the Colleges once observed that "studying is the U. of C. student's favorite pastime." Admits Chicago's president, Hanna Holborn Gray: "There was a perception that life here was-I won't say gray, that's hard...
...past, but the future. The book takes the reader along an imaginary road, five thousand miles along-a crescent along the fringes of the Amazon watershed. The road was sketched out by Peruvian President Belaunde, for whom it was part of a vision of a prosperous, developed core of a continent that would have freed itself of social turmoil. The reader can only hope that Kandell's vision, like Belaunde's, can be realized...
...senior professors as highly as small ones led by graduate students. If they have had no exposure to instruction by senior faulty in a smaller environment, students may not miss its absence. Furthermore, simply attending a large course cannot be construed as a vote for larger classes. Concentration and Core requirements must share credit for drawing out the crowds...
...issue of the Core itself, Rosovsky's optimism again appears somewhat overblown. Rosovsky draws confidence from the statistic that close to half the Core enrollments are electives but concedes that the full impact of Core requirements will not be known until the Class of '86 graduates. Needless to say, that judgement is of little comfort to undergraduates currently struggling to combine 10 Core offerings with concentration requirements...
...most serious shortcomings in Rosovsky's report are the issues he fails to confront altogether. Assessing the number of senior faculty who offer courses, for example, does not help determine the quality of that teaching. And nowhere, excepting his discussion of the Core, does Rosovsky address the issue of curriculum. Are professors teaching courses students want to take? These considerations would seem to have some bearing on the quality of education at Harvard...