Word: core
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While some professors, like Henry Rosovsky (the architect of the Core Curriculm), claim that there is no correlation between class size and educational quality, students do not have the freedom of choice to test that contention. The large size of the Core has become an inescapable element of Harvard's undergraduate education...
...most obvious solution to this dilemma is to increase the number of Core course offerings--a proposition that has received the support of Dean Michael A. Spence but seen little actual progress within the Core program...
Unfortunately, the Core's bureaucracy makes additional offerings extremely difficult. In order to offer an additional Core, a professor must submit to a tedious petitioning process. Then, once accepted, the professor faces additional logistical problems of preparing for the "masses...
Perhaps a more lasting solution would be to require senior faculties to participate more actively in the Core. While 95 percent of all Core courses are taught by senior faculty, less than 50 percent of senior faculty actually teach a Core...
...course, this proposition "steals" professors away from other courses. But if the Faculty feels that the Core is the foundation of a liberal arts education, then it should back up that commitment with the necessary facilities and teaching time to provide a real education. Otherwise, the Core could be replaced by cable and VJ Dweezil Zappa...