Word: core
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...have a place at Harvard after all. On the heels of the General Education report that added a religion requirement to the Core, a national study released last week revealed that the majority of college educators believe in some form of God. Assistant Professor of Sociology Neil Gross, co-author of the study, said he was surprised to find so many people of faith in the professorate. “Conservative critics of higher education paint the academy as a bastion of atheism,” Gross wrote in an e-mail. “There are indeed more atheists...
...proposed overhaul of the College’s Core curriculum released last week has already mollified several outspoken Faculty critics of the four-year-old attempt to update Harvard’s general education requirements—and professors said the plan stands a strong chance of gaining the full Faculty’s approval in the coming months...
While some professors say the review leaves scant space for literature and the arts, and others suggested it tries too hard to be a response to the 9/11 attacks, the current proposal has met a much warmer reception than previous Core overhaul plans...
...believe that the previous proposal may have looked like a cop-out to other institutions,” said Thomas Forrest Kelly, the Knafel professor of music and leader of the popular Core class, Literature and Arts B-51, “First Nights.” Now, he added, “I think people will say Harvard is coming to its senses...
While some professors are concerned with the way their academic fields were addressed in the recommendations, others welcomed the report’s focus on areas not currently required by the Core...