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...most dynamic and momentous years in the history of American education. The two-and-a-half decades following World War II proved a tremendous boom period for higher education; the number of colleges and universities rose sharply, as did the number of students attending those institutions. Academic curricula were revised and expanded in order to keep pace with the weight of new knowledge; graduate education came into its own; faculty positions increased and faculty salaries recovered from the depressed level they had remained at during the first half of the 20th century. From the vantage point...
There are at least three different motivations behind students' curricula at Harvard: getting A's, getting into professional schools, and getting educated. So long as the last of these dominates, the Core will have support...
...many will be persuaded to believe in core curricula as a progressive vision of undergraduate education. They will believe, even though that vision is just another product of the self-indulgent rattling of teacups in the Faculty Room...
...research and development. Bok is currently co-directing a two-year Project on the Teaching of Ethics for the center. The project committee will present a report in a year-and-a-half on what universities are offering in the way of ethics courses in undergraduate and pre-professional curricula. Freund and President Bok are among the advisers to the project...
Harvard's own professional schools display an inconsistency in their ethics curricula that would make an interesting study in itself. Within the past four years, several new courses on professional ethics have been started at the Medical School. Dorothy Rackemann, administrative assistant to the dean of the Med School, says she has noticed an increased interest in ethics by students in the last few years, although she hasn't seen any over-whelming demand for courses...