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...students are taught by not one but two, three, or four instructors.One recent popular offering featured University President Lawrence H. Summers and Bass Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel matching wits in Social Analysis 78, “Globalization and Its Critics,” and many science and Core courses currently tout a double professor byline.Team teaching is not new to the Courses of Instruction handbook, but offerings will likely increase as a result of the ongoing curricular review, which has recommended the implementation of interdisciplinary “portal” courses. Come fall, an introductory humanities course...
...curricular review as well.”Full faculty discussion of the recommendations next fall, many faculty members say, will allow faculty to feel ownership of the proposals, and may finally lead to their approval.LOOKING BOK AND AHEAD When then-Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky sent the initial Core Curriculum report to professors in 1978, The New York Times declared on its front page, “Like the Red Book a generation ago, the report released this week is likely to have widespread influence throughout American higher education.”But if the faculty passes the current...
...women in the sciences, administrative turnover, and Jones Professor of Economics Andrei Shleifer ’82, than on initiatives in life sciences and globalization or reform of undergraduate education. Summers’ political capital eroded throughout these controversies, which were in many ways peripheral to his core aims, leaving little opportunity for his proposals to take tangible form. Ultimately, far more was said than done. How, then, are we to judge Summers’ tenure? Was it merely a vision unfulfilled?Summers banked his presidency on the assumption that his vision for Harvard was the right one. He aimed...
...supervision of our faculty while living on campus and enjoying meals and evening programming together, to build community among students in the sciences. A key component of the curricular review that remains before us is the creation of a new program in general education, which will replace the Core Curriculum. The Faculty has been discussing a two-pronged approach to general education, which includes a distribution requirement that will provide students with some breadth in their programs, and specially designed courses intended to provide students with the skills and knowledge that they will need to become engaged and responsible citizens...
...worry about this whenever I am asked by deans and presidents of leading foreign universities to define (and sometimes to help them to adopt) a “Harvard education.” When colleagues from several Asian countries have asked how best they could import our Core Curriculum, I felt compelled to tell them of all its strengths. But I also share with them our several proposals to replace...