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While he concedes that it may no longer be possible for colleges to teach morality, he argues that colleges should provide, through coursework, the skills necessary to arrive at an adequate personal morality...
...used to give increased attention to transfer students from community colleges, said Jane Brown, the Mt. Holyoke Vice President for Enrollment and College Relations. “What the grant helps us do is identify talented students when they first come into Holyoke community college and then through special coursework and good academic advising, help them get prepared to apply to Mt. Holyoke,” Brown said. “They have to meet the same academic requirements for admissions as any other transfer student.” Amherst College’s director of public affairs, Stacey Schmeidel...
...regulation of student group activities would be counterproductive. Just as lecture halls are the realm of the professors, extracurriculars are the realm of the students; through them, students have the freedom to pursue their own interests, and often do so with more enthusiasm than they might bring to regular coursework. But extracurricular involvement and academic engagement need not be mutually exclusive; if faculty take a greater role in this world, meeting students on their own terms, both students and faculty might discover that they have more in common than they think...
...recognize until a few years later that Environmental Science and Public Policy, for example, would have been a better fit.Of course, there is the concern that this delay will encourage students to idly waste three semesters traipsing through the course catalog at the expense of more advanced coursework later. Departments, however, will suggest courses for potential concentrators, so students with an interest in a particular field will be guided toward suitable introductory courses that can also serve as a foundation for more advanced study. For example, Social Studies 10 could be offered to any student in the College and recommended...
Those who argue for a later declaration date have argued that 12 to 16 concentration requirements sufficiently prepare students who plan to go to graduate school and enter academia, but such requirements unnecessarily force students with broader academic interests and non-academic career goals to dedicate too much coursework to a narrow field. But Harvard is, after all, an academic institution, and its curriculum should focus on providing students with an education oriented in a specific academic direction. The proposed deadline extension compromises the academic integrity of many concentrations, which require the logical, if time-consuming, progression from introductory lectures...