Word: cores
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Students and professors alike were beaming as they walked out of a closed-door meeting of the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) that had discussed the College's proposed Core Curriculum--indicating that things are not going well for those who disagree with Dean Rosovsky's conception of an educated...
...next day, the Faculty Council put together two new amendments, after having won secret CUE approval at the CUE meeting the day before. Both dealt with the touchy issue of how students might be able to avoid taking Core courses in the future...
Donald Barfield, graduate fellow of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, will design the survey-"the central core on which we base our recommendations, the empirical part of our study," Ledecky said yesterday...
...money--so removed from social reality? What makes them so objective? Unless we are willing to concede that the Harvard Faculty has stumbled upon the absolute truth, the only alternative is to leave the decision up to the individual--at least to a greater extent than would the Core Curriculum...
SUSAN SCHIEFELBEIN'S piece in the recent Saturday Review, "Confusion at Harvard: What Makes an 'Educated Man'?" gives the impression that the Harvard community sighed collectively in relief, when the Core Curriculum was unveiled. The sigh, however, was more of a shudder, or perhaps a gulp of disbelief. It quickly became evident that Rosovsky and the Faculty Council were not fooling around; the reform was vast, bespeaking a change in the philosophy of education. Professors and the Committee on Undergraduate Education have proposed a slew of amendments--many of which have been neutralized by a heavily pro-Core Faculty Council...