Word: curricular
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...seems less like an easygoing brand of understanding and more like a collective vote of “no confidence” in the much-heralded replacement to the broken Core. What is more, this freedom of choice may banish our new enrollees to bureaucratic quicksand, as a rocky curricular transition will likely leave them with neither substantial course selection nor the guidance to make essential academic decisions...
...This sort of insecurity might trail after any period of flux, but it must be accompanied by a resolute show of good faith in the system to which we are transitioning. If current underclassmen and incoming freshmen are to be confronted with an unstable curricular landscape at large, then the College should at least maximize the number of departmental courses that count for Core credit. Students should not be impeded on the road to graduation by the insistence that every course accepted for Core credit meet bureaucratic and rigid guidelines fixed by faculty legislation–regulations which provoked much...
...Entering the College in the midst of the first curricular reform in 30 years, the Class of 2012 will have the option of graduating under either the current Core Curriculum or the new General Education program, which will begin this fall and be fully implemented...
...certainly being driven through the mission and therefore the Faculty is going to be more accepting of it,” Smith said. “Because what we’re trying to accomplish aligns with what the Faculty is trying to accomplish in both our academic and curricular programs...
...issue about the heart and soul, the very meaning of a university education, does not admit of such statistical and sociological precision. College administrators and curricular reviewers have no recourse to incontrovertible scientific proof in guiding and governing their institutions and are thus liable to meet with much resistance if their vision does not align with that of their faculty constituents...