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...renewed and energized on a regular basis. Faculty revise and update their courses to reflect the reframing of debates and advances in knowledge and to improve pedagogy. Departments develop new courses to reflect emerging areas of student and faculty interest. Departments and concentrations regularly re-evaluate and revise their curricula, changing requirements, restructuring course sequences and introducing new options for students...
...1970s, a national trend emerged as many colleges began to revise general education curricula by tightening requirements and reevaluating academic goals...
Many critics believed that the waves of general education reform did not point towards anything progressive, and that the national flurry of reforms marked a swing of the pendulum back to the way curricula were before 1960s campus activists forced many university administrations to abolish or loosen course requirements...
While the plan earned Faculty approval in May of 1954, the proposal didn’t reach Washington until a year later. The Pentagon ultimately rejected two of the three major points, approving only the integration of the liberal arts and military curricula. According to the Department of the Army, the prolongation of the summer training period would overtax Army resources—and without that extended summer period, an additional year remained necessary...
...teach something outside most students’ spheres of experience and confidence which need to be considered more explicitly before still more such classes are foisted upon the much-beleaguered student body. Big issues like the fact that the enrollment represents wildly divergent background knowledge and high-school science curricula. Or the fact that the humble three-letter word “lab” can conjure up a host of negative associations for a nervous humanities major which need to be worked through very slowly and sensitively if the course material is to make any headway whatsoever...