Word: cores
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...University late last week won a $1.25-million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to aid in the development of the Core Curriculum...
...Mellon Foundation is the first organization to provide the University with a grant exclusively for the Core Curriculum, Kaufmann said...
...bulk of the grant will go toward enlarging the junior faculty, primarily in the humanities, to meet the special needs of the Core Curriculum, Robert E. Kaufmann, associate dean for finances, said yesterday...
...university's "products" are humans embodying certain attitudes towards knowledge, and an ethical "fall-out" is at the core of the educational process...
This point leads to a third. The widely publicized so-called "reform" of the Core curriculum at Harvard was largely motivated, according to the faculty, by growing concerns about the ethical content of a Harvard College education. It's been asserted that the Harvard stamp should attach only to humans capable of thinking in value-terms and able to make responsible, value-laden decisions, which we all must do every day. A University which, in its operations in the world, fails to struggle with the practice of what it "preaches" in its classrooms, truly exposes its freedom and independence...