Word: curricular
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...look to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), he would be disappointed to see that certitude has wracked this institution he loved so dearly, leading to four years of political violence, rancor, and quagmire during the Faculty’s most important undertaking in a generation, its Curricular Review...
Since then it has been the best of times, and the worst of times. FAS has grown enormously in power after exercising a very public veto over one Harvard president and wielding private influence to elevate one of its own, Drew G. Faust, to the vacated bully pulpit. The Curricular Review is complete: Undergraduate concentration choice has been moved to the sophomore year; students have the option of taking secondary fields in addition to their concentrations; and a new system of general education, which revamps the Core with an increased focus on contemporary issues, passed the Faculty last month...
Above all, the Faculty must rise to the occasion. It must show as much enthusiasm in offering new courses as it did when over 400 faculty members showed up to attend a vote of no confidence in Summers. The lack of enthusiasm evidenced by Curricular Review votes that barely reached a Faculty quorum, and professors’ certitude and inability to cooperate, must give way to a newly concerted communal effort. That did not happen in the past four years, but it needs to start happening if the new curriculum is to work for professors—and most importantly...
That’s because Harvard is the people who constitute it. Years of clamoring for a better advising system, a real curricular review, a Pub, a student center, a 24-hour library, campus-wide concerts, and a host of other amenities—that was my job, after all, on the Crimson’s editorial board—masked an unassailable, deep satisfaction with the people that surrounded me. That will always be Harvard’s winning chip, and this week, it upped the ante...
Kagan had managed to push through a major curricular review and enjoyed significant popularity among students and faculty during her three years as dean, but committee members thought her management style might come to echo the brashness of the Summers era, the two sources said. She was also perceived as lacking the intellectual breadth and depth that would be needed to earn her the respect of humanists and scientists alike in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, according to the sources...