Word: curricular
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...staff editorial on September 25, invariably start with a firm reminder of why PUCC's reformist project is necessary. Chung acknowledges that the Undergraduate Council, the only body able in theory to speak on behalf of all the members of the College, "is just another extra-curricular activity" and "suffers from a lack of legitimacy." He also allows that the council's illegitimacy stems in part from the fact that "[it] is a bastion of white males." So far, so good. When representatives of campus progressive, ethnic and gay-lesbian groups, as well as other concerned individuals, began meeting last...
...CPRC has a remarkable opportunity to positively affect the lives of thousands of students to come. Switching to distributional requirements would ensure completeness for the curricular diversity of which the College often boasts. It didn't take us very long to come to this conclusion; with such an impressive list of scholars assembled for the CPRC, it should take them even less time...
...Specifically, four endowed professorial chairs--one each in American Latino Studies, Asian American Studies, Native American Studies and Comparative Ethnic Studies--would do much to reform or improve our current curricular quandary," the report says...
...current reform initiative. Of course, we have nothing personal against Clark--who could dislike a Mormon who leads his son's boy scout troop? But we feel that the school would have benefited from a fresh perspective unbound by the Leadership and Learning initiative which dominates current curricular reform efforts...
...suffers from a lack of mandate, a lack of institutionalized power, and a resulting lack of legitimacy in the eyes both of students and the administration. The council is just another extra-curricular activity, a dress-up game in which members pretend to be representing and governing. Incongruently, this one extra-curricular activity gets its funding straight out of students' term bills, claiming to be on a higher plane than, say, Model Congress. Initiatives in past years to take that funding away from the U.C. speak directly to students' view of the council's legitimacy and representation. It has none...