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...require an “ethically related” course. Approving a course to be ethically related, however, would force students into selecting from a small, inevitably arbitrary menu of classes, creating the Core’s problems anew. Furthermore, it would incentiveize professors to manipulate and build their curricula around this requirement, creating contrived courses.Instead of forcing a requirement upon students, faculty should create exciting courses that attract students without being required. Under such a system, we have no doubt that the great Moral Reasoning courses—like Moral Reasoning 22: “Justice?...
...mandatory testing many of them experienced through state-wide exams in grade school. But Harvard “would be reluctant to accept any form of standardized testing,” Senior Director of Federal and State Relations Kevin Casey said in an interview yesterday. “Standardized curricula or testing would limit our ability to educate,” MIT President Susan Hockfield said at a meeting of the U. S. Secretary of Education’s Commission on the Future of Higher Education in downtown Boston. The 19-person commission was formed last year with...
...couple of BMF alumni who say the only reason they actually graduated was because of the BMF itself,” Moore said. The JBHE also reported that graduation rates can be bolstered by race-sensitive admissions procedures and large black campus communities, and lowered by science-heavy curricula. However, Harvard—which does not explicitly take race into account for admissions decisions and is about 9 percent black—has still maintained a high rate. The JBHE looked to Carnegie Mellon University—with its science-heavy curriculum and 65 percent black graduation rate?...
...refrains from offering specific recommendations about coursework, but he repeatedly questions the efficacy of curricula that will not be remembered or applied later in life...
...previous possibility of postsecondary education will now have access. We recognize, however, that the academic experience of most distance education programs does not compare to the experience at traditional four-year schools. The solution, then, is for private accreditation agencies to evaluate online programs to ensure that their curricula are as close as possible to a comparable physical college—or, at the very least, that the schools are not merely diploma-mills. This is similar to the current system for physical colleges; before a student can be eligible to use federal aid at a particular school, the Department...