Word: coreness
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...Faculty’s lack of enthusiasm is also disconcerting because the ostensible purpose of the curricular review was to reinvigorate the curriculum and to create new classes. Faced with this uninspiring "new" rubric, faculty will be more likely to simply adapt their Core course to the new rubric, creating Core version...
...meetings have ended, the smoke is white, and Harvard College has a brand new curriculum. The infamous Core Curriculum, a relic of the last Bok administration, has finally been sent to its demise and in its place will stand a new general education system...
Alas, the new system in fact remains diffuse and diluted. With every academic faction in the College insisting that no student should graduate without taking their course, the resulting proposal was uninspiring, with the catchall categories of the Core dressed up in lofty rhetoric. What ought to have been an incisive, practical new plan devolved into another exercise in esoterica. In the end, general education is a case study in the frustrating nature of Harvard politics, characterized by institutional inertia and politically correct banality...
...largest flaw is that the implementation of the document’s nebulous recommendations has been left to an all-powerful standing committee. This has been the greatest weakness of the Core, as it allowed it to deteriorate into an inflexible mire whereby exemptions are few and far between and students are frequently forced to take mediocre classes that hold no interest...
...interests of the students for whom much ink has been spilt, we beseech the Committee to stray from the constrictiveness of the Core Curriculum in favor of flexibility and freedom for students, creating system that does not tyrannize students with its narrowness. If they err in this regard, general education will amount to nothing but a shiny new set of hoops through which each undergraduate must joylessly jump. But they have the power to improve on the current system’s frustrating inflexibility, even if it is too late to save the whole curricular review...