Word: core
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Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence, chairmanof the standing committee on the Core, said scarceresources and time make the recruiting job evenmore difficult. "The Core lands particularlyheavily in a number of areas and departments, andthis adds to the sense of having more commitmentsthan there are hours in the day," he said...
...recruitment process is a long and elaborateone, usually taking two years between proposal ofa professor to teach a Core course and the time itis first taught, administrators said...
Spence said administrators should be"energetically encouraging" faculty to teach inthe Core and making sure that departments haveenough staff to meet both their own needs andthose of the centralized curriculum...
...addition, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education David R. Pilbeam said the Core Curriculum now offers about 70 courses each year although the target number...
...struggle," Pierce Professor of Psychology Richard J. Herrnstein said of the recruiting effort among senior faculty members. "The older the Core gets, the more routine it becomes. I think it will get harder and harder," said Herrnstein, who chairs the Core's Social Analysis subcommittee...