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...victim in this drama, not a villain—a victim not of faculty anger but of his success at the role assigned to him.” Lewis called on students, faculty, alumni, and members of the governing boards to restore “a true core to undergraduate education,” even as the University protects its “reputation for excellence.” “Excellence must remain a guiding value, but the pursuit of excellence should no longer be an excuse for ignoring everything else,” he wrote. Lewis said...
...then quickly tossed aside in favor of more alluring texts like CUE guides, course catalogs, and ever-handy copies of “Writing with Sources.”Today, Harvard makes one last-ditch attempt to force students to think critically about ethics through the Moral Reasoning core. There, students are asked to question their own beliefs. What is justice? If there is no God, is all permitted? And other such quandaries.Under the new General Education plan proposed by the Committee on General Education, however, moral reasoning classes may be stricken from the catalog. The proposal stresses the importance...
...seems that everybody on campus has selected one Core Curriculum area that they feel we must keep in the new general education system. In particular, Moral Reasoning seems to have garnered a plethora of supporters who want to graft it onto the proposed system of three courses in each of three areas—the Study of Societies, Science and Technology, and the Arts and Humanities—which could be fulfilled with either departmental courses or broad interdisciplinary “Courses in General Education.” Despite their good intentions, we believe that there should...
...Nigeria a country? It sounds like an easy problem on a school pop quiz. But for millions of Nigerians it is still a serious question - the question, in point of fact, at the core of their country's failings. The oil-rich nation, many Nigerians contend, will never "work" because, like so many troubled African countries, it is not a coherent whole but an artificial, colonial fusion of different cultures and ethnicities constantly pulling apart...
...resources is needed.“I think it’s very important to communicate student concerns about the total cost of a combination of books and sourcebooks, which I don’t think necessarily everybody’s aware of,” Director of the Core Program Susan W. Lewis said.The UC position paper also proposed a Centralized Resource Efficiency Optimization Center which would employ students to find course materials from electronic resources that the College has already paid for. Members of the administration, however, advocated using department resources instead of creating a centralized system...