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...members and the pressing need for change, this year should have been one of thoughtful deliberation and official legislation. But this decisive stage of the curricular review depended on the Faculty’s initiative and leadership, and, regrettably, the Faculty failed to provide either.Most discouragingly, the antiquated Core Curriculum still survives amid universal disapproval, even though the HCCR’s Committee on General Education (CGE) has produced a group of exciting alternatives to replace the failed system. Professors and students alike have long recognized that the Core suffers from an arbitrary pedagogical philosophy and a needlessly restrictive...
...forged with members of Local 26 over the years. We value all of our service employees and the daily contributions they make to the University’s operational and academic excellence. We consider these employees to be the backbone of the University and absolutely essential to our core mission. Mary Ann O’Brien is the communications director for the University’s Office of Human Resources. For more information, visit www.serviceemployees.harvard.edu...
These fruitful forays, far more than the Core Curriculum, taught me how to think at Harvard...
...expand the Faculty by 15 percent, and the ongoing curricular review aims to increase faculty-student interactions by raising the number of small classes and promoting opportunities that foster such dialogue. But most of the curricular review has focused on sexier issues like general education. The future of the Core Curriculum is admittedly important, but expending so much breath on the structure of the literature requirement misses the true problem with a Harvard College education.Which is a shame because, despite some limited success, Harvard is still failing on the whole. While some star professors—including...
...Greenhouse says.Greenhouse also once had a five-foot-long pet iguana named Madonna.“Linda is just a very nice, gentle person. It belies a very tough mind,” Jones says. “She’ll ask tough questions and cut to the core of things. In addition to speaking at Class Day, She will also be awarded the Radcliffe Institute Medal on Radcliffe Day this Friday. Recent Class Day speakers at HLS include CNN talk show host Larry King, White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales, now the U.S. attorney general, and former presidential adviser...