Word: coreness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Core Director Lewis denies that the monster class wounds student learning. CUE Guide-thumping Lewis says students should not fear the untameable creature. "I don't think it should hurt a student's education. I am not saying that it doesn't, but the CUE Guide data doesn't say it does," she maintains...
...Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles, chair of the Committee on the Core Program, agrees the monster is innocuous. "There will always be some lecturers whose presentations are so exciting, and who talk about subjects of interest to such a wide range of students, that they fill Sanders," he says. "Once the audience has risen above about 100 or so, I don't think that the 'student's ability to learn' is affected. It can become, instead, a vivid, shared experience. There is surely nothing intrinsically wrong with very popular lecturers." Knowles's vision of a "vivid, shared, experience...
...proposal to introduce a separate survey for Core classes failed to achieve the CUE's endorsement, while the committee agreed to modify the layout of the surveys...
...large problems still loom: An aging Faculty is finding it hard to make room for young professors and Core course offerings are still sparse as the Core Program prepares to add an eleventh area next year...
Knowles also expressed concern about the Core, where he noted in the letter that the Faculty's goal of 12 classes per area each year has not yet been...