Word: curricular
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...That comment, Summers acknowledged in an interview after the speech, was a reference to Harvard’s undergraduate curricular review, launched in 2002, which became one of many flashpoints in his relationship with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). After several stumbles, the review is only now nearing completion...
...Derek C. Bok, in his first turn as president, likened the 1978 curricular review to “moving a cemetery.” His most recent book, “Our Underachieving Colleges,” assails the “self-interested behavior” of professors as the most significant barrier to reform in higher education...
Clarification: The March 15 news analysis "With Book on Horizon, Summers Sharpens His Critiques of Harvard and its Faculty" did not completely represent the former University president's views on the undergraduate curricular review. He also said in an interview after the speech, "Much of it reflects things that were my focus during my presidency," and praised half a dozen initiatives, including faculty-student contact, the empirical reasoning requirement, the attention to pedagogy, secondary concentrations, and the emphasis on actual knowledge rather than ways of knowing...
...long, the improvement of writing instruction at Harvard has received mere lip service. After the Harvard College Curricular Review, the Standing Committee on Writing and Speaking was created to keep an eye on the teaching of writing, but the administration, up until the present, seemed content to rest on Harvard’s laurels. We hope that Bok’s writing test will provide concrete evidence showing such people just how necessary change is both in the Expository Writing program and across the curriculum...
...Teaching and Career Development and published in January, seeks to address growing concerns about how Faculty members balance teaching and research, according to the committee’s chair, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Theda Skocpol.In the midst of this year’s curricular reforms—the introduction of more than 30 secondary fields, delayed concentration choice, changes in advising—the report on teaching and learning has been most significantly overshadowed by the ongoing debate over general education and its future at Harvard.The Faculty is scheduled to vote on general education legislation...