Word: curricular
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...stake” in deciding whether President-elect Drew G. Faust would continue to write and file an annual report. In his report, which was addressed to the alumni Board of Overseers, Bok reflects on the major projects of his year, citing in particular the completion of the curricular review, the continued momentum on Harvard’s expansion into Allston, and the establishment of the Harvard University Science and Engineering Committee, which is charged with encouraging interdisciplinary scientific research. Bok’s assessment captures a university in transition. He writes that the curricular review’s recommendations...
...When Derek C. Bok came back to Cambridge last spring, he found the four-year long curricular review “on life support,” he said recently...
...dinner this May given in honor of 15 professors who helped guide the curricular review, Interim Dean of the Faculty David R. Pilbeam—who stepped in for Knowles in April as the dean struggled with complications related to the cancer—presented the president with a t-shirt. The back of the shirt read, “BOK,” the front, “168-14-11,” the tally of the Faculty’s votes on the new program of general education...
...Since its launch, the review of undergraduate education had stalled, suffering from an overabundance of administrators and professorial personalities. Two years earlier, Summers resigned from the committee shaping the College’s curricular review, following a vote of no confidence in his leadership...
...schedule—two four-month semesters, with a one-month “J-term” in between. But in the last two years of Summers’ tenure, the conversation on calendar reform stalled as FAS tackled general education legislation. Just before the curricular review came to completion this spring, the UC released a 10,000 word position paper documenting their proposed calendar changes. A UC-sponsored undergraduate referendum on calendar reform followed, in which 84 percent of the 3,467 students who participated voted in favor of the Council’s proposal. The UC plan...