Word: curricular
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...been a long, hard struggle, choked full of casualties. The curricular review, in progress since 2002, has devoured with alarming ferocity the various faculty members who have attempted to find a replacement for the outmoded Core Curriculum. It has also managed to outlast both the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Dean and the University president who were its initiators. Talk about staying power...
...discussion of this huge event has veered away from substantive issues about Faust’s vision for the University; instead it has had a remarkably narrow focus: gender. Such dialogue neglects to address the momentous changes facing Harvard in the coming years—from the Harvard College Curricular Review to Allston and beyond...
...develop an initiative to “help students see how what they learn in class informs what they do outside of class and vice versa?” Witness the birthing of “activity-based learning,” the misbegotten pedagogical stepchild of the recent curricular review...
...Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes echoed the importance of cold cash in making curricular dreams come true...
...good life,” and consequently about what a general education program should teach, when such agreement is precisely what contemporary society lacks. Writing in their book, “General Education in a Free Society,” the authors of the 1945 curricular reform at Harvard lamented: “As recently as a century ago no doubt existed about [the] purpose [of general education]: it was to train the Christian citizen…[But] this enviable certainty has largely disappeared...