Word: curricular
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...several years, [there have been] a number of major investments in areas other than the curriculum,” said former Interim Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles. “It would not surprise if in the coming years, there will be some complementary...funding on the curricular side...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). With the drama surrounding former University President Lawrence H. Summers firmly behind it and a trusted leader, interim Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles at the helm, the Faculty would finally be able to focus on reexamining pedagogy and completing an inspiring curricular review. FAS would be primed for a heady future after the handover to a new dean at the end of the year.If only it were so. Instead, leadership shake-ups, a budget deficit, pedagogical malaise, turf wars, and damaged relations with students were the common threads tying together a year...
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 drew heavily upon that of the Verba report, but it did not endorse a J-term—instead citing language from the earlier report providing for an alternate configuration...
...before he would leave Mass. Hall, Bok threw his hat into the ring. He said on Friday that he waited until late in his tenure as interim president to discuss calendar reform because “several precipitating events occurred late in the year,” including the curricular review...
...doing well” could mean induction into Phi Beta Kappa, but that it could also mean learning a cultural dance whose name I could barely pronounce for Ghungroo, the South Asian dance show, or working with Undergraduate Council members to bring a student voice to the Curricular Review, or engaging in a Moral Reasoning section discussion on the justification for a living wage. And thus while it may have at first appeared impossible to “do well” at Harvard, it seems I have actually been given many opportunities in which...