Word: curricular
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...modifications to the concentration currently called “Astronomy and Astrophysics” were approved by the Educational Policy Committee earlier this month without revisions, said Stephanie H. Kenen, the associate dean of undergraduate education. The changes come as part of a string of curricular reconsiderations this year. The English department had an overhaul of its concentration requirements approved by the EPC in February, and the Classics department—also citing a desire to remove its course of study from an emphasis on graduate-level rigor—voted to approve wide-ranging changes early this month. Astronomy...
...amid a focus on the pending curricular review and the controversies of the Summers administration, calendar reform fell by the wayside. In spring 2007, Undergraduate Council resumed the discussion, calling for an undergraduate referendum on calendar reform and proposing a plan that deviated from the Verba report in omitting a J-Term...
...there was anyone to make sure that the review kept going, it was Bok. Since Bok had decided to take on the presidency for a second time without being paid, and he himself had overseen the creation of the Core Curriculum, his determination to finish the curricular review was “this sort of heroic thing,” according to Menand...
Harris adds that Gen Ed aims “to connect what students learn to their lives outside of college, most emphatically not in the vocational sense.” The curricular review, however, set out to change more than just the curriculum...
Menand remembered feeling excited when Bok invited 15 professors who helped guide the curricular review to a celebratory dinner in Loeb House. They celebrated the conclusion of the review process in the same building where Bok had chewed them out, a little over a year earlier. A string quartet played music. Menand presented Bok with a shirt that said, “BOK,” on the back and, “168-14-11” on the front—the final vote...