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After a number of vulnerable twilight years, the 30-year-old Core Curriculum is prepared at last to give way as the nucleus of all educational experiences at Harvard and be supplanted by the new General Education program beginning...
...administrative decision to blur the line between two educational eras, however, seems less like an easygoing brand of understanding and more like a collective vote of “no confidence” in the much-heralded replacement to the broken Core. What is more, this freedom of choice may banish our new enrollees to bureaucratic quicksand, as a rocky curricular transition will likely leave them with neither substantial course selection nor the guidance to make essential academic decisions...
...Susan W. Lewis, director of the Core program, confirmed that a climate of uncertainty prevailed for her office: “We’re working on next week and next month, as is every other department in FAS.” This sort of insecurity might trail after any period of flux, but it must be accompanied by a resolute show of good faith in the system to which we are transitioning. If current underclassmen and incoming freshmen are to be confronted with an unstable curricular landscape at large, then the College should at least maximize the number...
SERIES This editorial is the first in a two-part series that addresses the transition from Harvard’s Core Curriculum to General Education...
...than anticipated, delayed the deal by a month, Partners spokeswoman Petra Langer said. Over the past few years, officials in Mass. Hall and the office of Provost Steven E. Hyman have expressed concern that HMI’s activities no longer fully reflect the Medical School’s core missions of education and research, according to a Crimson report in February. The spin-off of the subsidiary was pushed through by central administrators—over the fierce objections of HMI’s founders—during the interregnum between former Medical School Dean Joseph B. Martin...