Word: curricular
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...statement from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences said Gross had decided that "with the conclusion of the legislative process of the curricular review, the time seems appropriate to move on to other projects." Gross, in a letter to Interim Dean of the Faculty David Pilbeam, said that "this summer marks the end of my five-year administrative appointment...
...Gross said that, with the conclusion of the legislative process of the curricular review, the time seems appropriate to move on to other projects," according to a Faculty of Arts and Sciences news release...
...early 2003, Dean Kirby kicked off the Curricular Review by bravely declaring, “We must overhaul the system by which students are, and more often, are not, given academic advice by faculty.” Scores of Faculty freshman advisers were recruited. Yet strangely, the fully overhauled system will have less Faculty advising than the old, not more. There are now undergraduate peer advisers and an Advising Programs Office with nine staff members. But next fall, no professor will advise any first-term sophomore. All sophomore advisors will be House tutors. Even professors who are members of House...
Harvard admits the best students from the best high schools in America and also the best students from the worst high schools in America. Nothing in the Curricular Review acknowledged that many American high schools have gotten worse over the past 30 years and that the demographic of the Harvard student body has changed. Family income and social class affect preparedness for courses such as Life Sciences 1a and 1b, our new one-size-fits-all introductory sequence in the life sciences...
...long run, the most serious failure of the Curricular Review may be its failure to confront the educational consequences of socio-economic diversity. The new administration must work to see that all students, especially those for whom Harvard can work the most magic, have a real opportunity for everything Harvard has to offer...