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Bureaucratic impediments and rigid traditions make it hard for a 350-year-old institution like Harvard to stay on the cutting edge. Keeping pace with modern science and technology requires institutions not only to update their curricula, but also to maintain state-of-the-art facilities. But campus development for an institution like Harvard is a complicated process that involves years of planning—incorporating modern architecture and environmentally conscious practices with an aesthetic commitment to red brick neo-Georgian architecture. Development on this scale also includes accommodating all the parties involved, from students and academic departments to city...
...Nowhere is this frankness more essential than in that often lackluster component of Harvard’s undergraduate experience: advising. By this fall, when the first Gen Ed courses appear in the catalog, every student and every adviser should know the mechanics of both curricula in place and, for the Class of 2012, the ramifications of choosing either...
...incoming freshmen, who know relatively little about these changes, be expected to make informed decisions about competing curricula? Freshmen advisors complain of having been left in the dark, too, in spite of the fact that they will be expected to advise new students a mere four months from now. All of this, and administrators are hardly apologetic...
...project is the brainchild of Tokai University Professor Yoshimasa Hayashi, a former top automotive engineer with Nissan Motor and author of the Japanese book To Make the World's Best Race Car. In 2001, Hayashi decided to spice up the school's drab curricula with a little real-world engineering project: a competitive endurance racer, designed and built by his students. "Studying a race car is a great way to learn a variety of advanced technologies," says Hayashi. "And, of course, it's appealing to young students...
Members of the Class of 2012 may need to decide between these two curricula early in their academic careers. Only 13 courses so far have been approved to “double-count,” or fulfill both Core and Gen Ed requirements. Nine double-counting courses will be offered next academic year...