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Four years after the curricular review began, the final version of the proposed general education legislation will come before professors at a meeting of the full Faculty of Arts and Sciences next week. But even with a final vote in sight, professors still disagreed yesterday over the place of advanced departmental courses in the new program. Interim Dean of the Faculty David Pilbeam, who has stepped in for Dean Jeremy R. Knowles as Knowles battles prostate cancer, expressed concern yesterday that the Faculty might fail to see the review through to completion. “We are running very close...
...time, then-President Lawrence H. Summers, Provost Steven E. Hyman, and the all of the deans supported the report’s recommendations, but agreed to postpone a final decision until the completion of several curricular reviews across the University, including the current review in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...University should follow the substantive and procedural recommendations of the Verba committee. They stated that the University should move to the proposed framework of a limited number of uniform dates on the calendars of all the Schools, but agreed to defer final action until the completion of certain curricular reviews then underway in several of the Faculties. A copy of the March 2004 statement appears at http://www.provost.harvard.edu/reports/statement.php...
Within the past month, now that the review of undergraduate education is nearing an end (and with the other curricular reviews pending in 2004 having been concluded), the question of calendar reform has emerged once again. The deans have discussed the issue and concluded unanimously, as they did three years ago, that the Verba committee's proposal to achieve greater uniformity of academic calendars across Harvard would advance the interests of the University as a whole. The Harvard Overseers have expressed a similar view. More recently still, the Undergraduate Council has issued a report on the subject and conducted...
...review. It would refresh the ponderous, sometimes-suffocating Core and perhaps even reanimate academic discourse on campus. But as time wore on, as preliminary reports gave way to final reports and final reports gave way to Faculty legislation, we have become increasingly disillusioned.It now seems to us that the Curricular Review’s guiding philosophy of general education is simply too controversial and unwieldy to be practicable at Harvard at any time in the foreseeable future. It has been diluted by Faculty legislation, loopholed by the same powerful standing committees that spelled the doom of the Core, and tacked...