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...prime time. If we wished it to be merely a rearrangement of the same courses into new boxes, the proposed system could start today. But this would not be true reform. Gen Ed’s success will not derive from a creative reassignment of today’s Core courses. Rather, if it achieves its aims, the program’s legacy will be a curriculum that integrates innovative teaching methods, and focuses on the twenty-first century world. Accomplishing such lofty goals requires a period during which such Gen Ed plan generalities can assume a concrete meaning...
...Providing Gen Ed such a period for development, while still granting the Core the immediate funeral it deserves, calls for a temporary suspension of general course requirements. While this suspension might seem to strike a blow against broad education, it is worth remembering that the current program actually stifles many Harvard students’ personal quests for breadth. The faculty must agree it is bizarre that the current system, supposedly meant to acquaint students with various disciplines, ignores courses such as Psychology 1, “Introduction to Psychology” and History 20a, “Western Intellectual History...
...period with neither Core nor Gen Ed would not mean a window in which, for a few fleeting years, Harvard would “become Brown.” Concentration requirements would remain just as rigorous and, if need be, the faculty could impose a loose distribution requirement. Such a distribution requirement was, in fact, the original result of Harvard’s search to replace the Core. A brief interlude under such a requirement would not disadvantage students who entered under the current system, and would also allow the College to be sure it made the right choice...
...College has already rejected the Core, but current students seem to be falling through the cracks. In response, the faculty ought to free students from both decayed and yet-to-be-written requirements. Harvard must ensure the new system’s quality and feasibility for the classes to come, but it should do so without ignoring the needs of current students. The university is bidding a long goodbye to a faulty structure, and although the goodbye is warranted, I, for one, wish it were briefer...
...Moreover, several campaign advisers acknowledged, Obama will be pressured by all sorts of people to change his message and approach as the race broadens beyond the two states - and again take up a sharper knife in his fight with Hillary. That would be, they add, a mistake. Obama's core message of inviting Americans to work together to bring about changes in health care, education, foreign policy and energy policy is not going to change, they say. And it would be dangerous to try. "His challenge is to stay disciplined and stay on the track," said one adviser...