Word: coring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...possibilities is that there should be a whole different Core area devoted to QRR," says Hollis Professor of Mathematics Andrew M. Gleason, head of the QRR subcommittee. "We could have a larger mandate, a situation under which we are not operating under an extracurricular basis...
...will be one area covered by the review, says Core director Susan W. Lewis...
...position taken by Martin, who is the van Vleck professor of pure and applied physics and an ex-officio Core committee member, remains closely aligned to that taken by Harvard science professors 11 years ago. In a DAS straw-poll two months before the Core was approved in May, 1978, science faculty voted against the Core 23-3. The professors charged that the plan downplayed the importance of science and technology...
Another problem that might surface, Lewis says, is of more immediate concern to students: class size. While new courses are always being developed and new faculty recruited to the Core, getting professors to teach is often difficult...
...many faculty members, to teach in the Core is to commit an unnatural act," says Professor of Government Jorge I. Dominguez, who heads the Foreign Cultures subcommittee, one of eight that make up the Core Committee...