Word: curricular
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Homi K. Bhabha, a member of the task force and the director of the Humanities Center, said it was too soon to know what direction the committee would take, but he speculated that it would consider the role of the arts both in the extracurricular and curricular realms...
While he or she may set financial priorities, the Dean lacks the ability to dedicate funds to new or improved curricular and extracurricular programs. Unfortunately, the dean, like so many others throughout the University, is often forced into an advisory role and made to impose the decisions of playmakers above him. Though wording may be confusing, the College dean reports not the President, but to the Faculty dean, who then reports to the president on behalf of the dean of the College...
...folklore and mythology program, initiated discussions between various department chairs. Although these discussions were initially focused around the departure of then-President Summers, French professor Christie McDonald continued to organize this unofficial Caucus of Chairs, even after Summers stepped down. Their talks expanded into discussions of the curricular review and faculty growth. It would seem fitting for such discussions to occur within the faculty, but many of the chairs are dissatisfied with the University structure...
...power of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). For instance, the Committee on Writing and Speaking has a paltry three tenured professors on it, one of whom is on sabbatical this fall (the other two will leave in the spring).Similarly, the most important recommendations of the Curricular Review committee that reviewed Expository Writing—which issued its report in January 2006—have yet to be taken up, and those on the inside say the reforms are at best several years off. These reforms, such as reducing the class size to 12 from about 14, increasing...
...Much of the Faculty’s curricular debates last year focused on wresting guidance of undergraduate education out of the hands of administrators and into those of professors. But McCann is one of only two tenured professors currently on the Committee on Writing and Speaking and the only person who has served on the group leading Expos for more than two years. Both tenured members of the committee are leaving for sabbaticals this spring, and English Department Chair James T. Engell ’73 will return to the committee from sabbatical; no tenured faculty member will...