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...little to show after five years of debate. Although a preliminary report released a year and a half ago contained inspiring promises of engaged intellectualism and global citizenship, Gen Ed has since then devolved into an insipid mash-up of compromises that is essentially a redux of the old Core. A scant 37 Gen Ed courses have been approved for the 2008-2009 academic year, and only seven more for the following fall. Despite being set to supplant the long-criticized Core curriculum by 2009, a mere 60 proposals have even been submitted, many of which are nothing more than...
With both programs failing, students are caught between Scylla and Charybdis. Granting incoming freshmen a choice between the lame-duck Core and the skeletal Gen Ed will create even more confusion for students and their academic advisers, who are mostly in the dark about the process. The faculty’s own inability to articulate the new program does not help (it is disheartening to see administrators waffling on standard questions of academic eligibility and curricular options). Gen Ed has simply never been fully explained to students, especially those in the class of 2012, whom it will affect most...
...facilitate the transition to Gen Ed, the College should maximize the number of departmental courses that count for Core credit—for example, by further relaxing the requirements for departmental courses and by streamlining the petition process. In the long run, however, it is up to newly appointed Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds and the Task Force on General Education to give Gen Ed a coherent education philosophy and a tenable organization...
...reasoned stands on important issues. On her second day in office, she denounced a British boycott of Israeli academics. In March, she testified in front of the U.S. Senate in favor of increasing the funding of the National Institutes of Health. And just yesterday, at the Reserve Office Training Core commissioning ceremony, she leveled much-needed criticism against the Pentagon’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. Although she took some misguided stances, such as her opposition to beer advertising at NCAA tournaments, she rightly avoided taking controversial...
...1980s, he continued his work in this field by championing core issues like foster care and family leave at the Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families...