Word: core
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...Faculty apathy. Unsurprisingly, the Curricular Review largely fell flat. Instead of crafting a meaningful statement on what it means to be educated in today’s world, professors only seemed to care that their parochial corner of academia be included, leaving Harvard with an uninspired retread of the Core Curriculum. It will be up to Smith and Wolfson Professor of Jewish Studies Jay M. Harris, who will lead the General Education committee which is to implement the Review’s findings, to breathe life and coherence into the new curriculum.Furthermore, the Faculty repeatedly balked at making teaching evaluations...
...Drew G. Faust, to the vacated bully pulpit. The Curricular Review is complete: Undergraduate concentration choice has been moved to the sophomore year; students have the option of taking secondary fields in addition to their concentrations; and a new system of general education, which revamps the Core with an increased focus on contemporary issues, passed the Faculty last month. Yet the road to where we are today has left Harvard and the Faculty deeply scarred and has exposed serious flaws within FAS that threaten to undermine the new curriculum just as they did the soon-to-be-defunct Core...
...Science of the Physical Universe.” Professors will apply to the Standing Committee on General Education, chaired by Wolfson Professor of Jewish Studies Jay M. Harris, for their course to be accepted to one of the eight fields. This framework hopes to eschew the liabilities of the Core, most notably its limited choice and poor course selection, through a more judicious and broadly conceived review process...
...would have wanted to win really badly.” Avenging his earlier loss, Suchde bested Sanchez, 9-2, 9-7, 8-10, 9-2, to claim Harvard’s 27th individual title and the first since Daniel Ezra in 1996. With seven seniors on the team, the core of this year’s successful squad will be gone next season, but some players appear poised to fill their shoes. “I think from the ones that are remaining, Colin West is most likely to play [No. 1],” Suchde said...
Calvert’s loss was evident when Harvard scored just four goals against the Buckeyes. Motschwiller and Widbin were also sorely missed in the final games, as the core could not find any kind of rhythm...