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...several errors of fact in the editorial series relating to General Education this week. The most serious of them is the assumption that the Gen Ed program will launch in four months, and that the class of 2012 will have to decide between the new Program and the Core when they arrive. This is incorrect. The new Gen Ed program will launch in September 2009, with a small number of courses available next year. Students in the Class of 2012 will enter under the Core requirements, and have the opportunity to switch, should they wish to, beginning the following year...
Student impatience with and concerns about the transition from the Core to General Education is understandable. Our sympathy with that impatience is what led us to decide early on that we would launch in September, 2009, despite the warnings from experienced faculty and administrators that even that date was too early. In many cases, departments and faculty had already developed their plans for 09-10, and even if they had not yet done so, they had developed their plans for 08-09, when the course development for the following year would have to take place. Despite these warnings, we decided...
...sympathy for that impatience led us to another decision, namely to try to provide as many General Education courses as we could for September, 2008, so that many members of the Class of 2012 could have the opportunity to change from the Core to General Education, when General Education is launched in September 2009. We were strongly advised against this, again by experienced faculty and administrators, and perhaps we should have taken that advice to heart. After all, given that it was impossible to have the full program up and running, simply declaring that all members of the class...
...glut of revised syllabi in the last few weeks.” Students who were worried that Literature and Arts B-51: “First Nights: Five Performance Premieres” may not be taught again can now rest assured—it will count both toward the Core and Gen Ed’s Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding requirement in Fall 2009. The majority of newly approved classes come from the humanities. Five will count toward the “Culture and Belief” requirement, and another five will count toward “Aesthetic and Interpretive...
...Some of Clinton's own strategists are doubtful that Obama will offer to make her his running mate - in no small part because that would mean bringing Bill aboard. Her presence on the ticket would also undercut Obama's core message of change and his promise of a new brand of politics. However, advisers say that in the interest of unifying the party, there may well be a good argument for tapping one of the Clintons' high-profile supporters, such as Indiana Senator Evan Bayh or Ohio governor Ted Strickland...