Word: cores
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...annoying truisms about big ideas is they usually demand big money. The Core Curriculum, the general education program which the Faculty will begin to phase in next year, is no exception. So it was with an equally big sign of relief that the Faculty this week accepted the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's $1.25 million grant for the Core, the first grant exclusively designated to aid the Core's development...
...bulk of the funds still go toward enlarging the junior faculty, primarily in the humanities, who will help senior faculty to teach the Core courses. The Mellon Foundation traditionally supports instruction and research in the humanities fields...
WHEN THE STANDING COMMITTEE on the Core Curriculum releases the official 1979-80 listings of Core courses in a few weeks, undergraduates will see the program for the first time. Dean Rosovsky has kept discussion of the Core behind closed doors and beyond the grasp of students. Rosovsky capped his policy of stifling student involvement when he asked the Core committee two weeks ago not to divulge any information even about the 38 courses that had already been approved by the group. The few students who serve on the standing committee or its subcommittees were forbidden to solicit opinions about...
...that undergraduates now enrolled should not expect a hand in creating courses that will affect only future generations of students. The shallowness of this statement becomes apparent when the logic is applied to the Faculty--some of whom will leave Harvard, some of whom will not choose to teach Core courses. Moreover, Rosovsky is implicitly denying that students have a valid perspective on their own educations. The Faculty created the Core Curriculum to replace the flawed and misdirected General Education program. As students under Gen Ed's sway, present undergraduates have a unique outlook on the program. They are well...
...committee must approve a second slate of Core courses next year. This time, the panel should encourage student participation, perhaps through undergraduate committees in the various departments, perhaps through the student-faculty departmental committees mandated by the Faculty this week. Almost any approach would be an improvement...