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...month study by the Faculty's Core Review Committee (CRC), chaired by Pforzheimer University Professor Sidney H. Verba '53, marked the first attempt to reevaluate the Core's mission and future since the program's inception...
...CRC came down squarely in favor of the Core as originally conceived. In its report to the Faculty, Verba's committee--which consisted of two students and six professors--endorsed the Core's goal of exposing undergraduates to different approaches to knowledge...
Because the CRC felt the Core was educationally valuable to Harvard's undergraduates, the committee's report did not recommend drastic changes...
...balance the new Quantitative Reasoning course students would now have to take, the CRC recommended reducing the number of overall Core requirements from the current eight to seven, a proposal the committee abandoned amid Faculty opposition...
...CRC seems determined to retain the iron cage of the Core program despite students inside clamoring to get out, wanting to learn more than the Core teaches them. It seems ironic to us that the Faculty's decisions are rooted not in a pedagogic desire to inculcate students with a solid liberal arts education but rather in a perverse need to maintain a failed system for the sake of the system itself. Beside increasing student choice, departmental bypasses will allow increased learning. The Faculty should be more concerned with student education and less concerned with bureaucracy...