Word: core
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Susan W. Lewis, director of the Core Curriculum, says the report was "very flattering," despite its criticisms. "Of course I think it's right," she says...
...reaccreditation report, offers a rare outside critique of the Harvard undergraduate experience. In particular, the report singles out several weaknesses in University education: the minimal student-faculty contact, the superficiality of Quantitative Reasoning Requirement (QRR), the absense of mathematics teaching in the Core and the little academic advising students receive...
...thought it really identified one of the real defects of decentralization," says Pierce Professor of Psychology Richard J. Herrnstein, who is chairman of the Core Curriculum subcommittee on Social Analysis. "Except for the Core, there isn't very much communal discussion of academic matters...
...fact, Lewis says she was surprised the evaluating committee did not produce more negative comments on the curriculum. "It was interesting to me that they didn't come up with other things. They spent a very substantial fraction of their time actually focusing on issues related to the Core...
Most students and faculty members who own bikes say they use their vehicles primarily for afternoon rides along the River and weekend escapes from the city. But hard-core cyclists say the best reason to have a bicycle on campus is for transportation--not to and from the city, or vacations in the country, but to and from class...