Word: curricular
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Randomization, public service and medical leave are three areas that will directly affect student life outside the classroom. With curricular issues as well, student opinions are often shunted aside...
...also believes that ethnic studies should not be a separate department. His reasons for this include administrative problems, but more fundamentally, as he and Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles write in the Handbook on Race Relations and the Common Pursuit: "The creation of narrowly defined administrative or curricular entities in the FAS would be misguided. Our faculty do not favor limiting the study of ethnicity to a handful of groups whose own self-determination has been changing over time.... The study of ethnicity at Harvard is, and ought to be, focused on the broad canvas of human experience...
Lastly, colleges must take it upon themselves to reinstitute curricular requirements that provide every undergraduate with a basis in Western civilization. Only then can we both understand other cultures' influence on our contemporary world and gain a common knowledge to tie together history, biology, mathematics and English majors once they leave school. Only then will colleges set an example to employers about the value of a truly liberal curriculum. And college presidents must take the lead...
...have the highest respect for the extracurriculars here at Harvard and acknowledge that participation by students in them is an essential part of their educations. Yet to resist curricular reforms because of the impact on extracurriculars is to have the tail wag the dog. Harvard's world-class reputation is not built on its extracurricular activities, however wonderful some of them may be. Nor, I suspect, do most students come here because of them. In considering curricular reform we must leave students time for a life, but we must also demand that they be students first and athletes, musicians, debaters...
...Positions: Safety; Curricular issues; Advising reform...