Word: curricular
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...committee of professors to draft legislation for the fall on the next system of general education. But the shape of that system, as speeches in the last half hour of yesterday’s meeting demonstrated, is far from clear.Two professors who have played key roles in the curricular review rose to say they were dissatisfied with the current proposal, which the Committee on General Education released last fall.Charles S. Maier ’60, the Saltonstall professor of history who served on that committee, said that the proposed looser distribution requirements should be reconsidered.“I, myself...
...Lewis ’68 has branded Harvard “soulless,” arguing that the institution fails to exert any “formative force” on its students and that the faculty are “exhausted” by their work on curricular review...
...other hand, he said, the undergraduate academic program lacks direction, and the faculty have “come up dry” after three years of working on the curricular review...
NOVEMBER 12, 2002 The Faculty had its first discussion of the curricular review. Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes urged the Faculty to take advantage of this “one moment of intellectual adventure in our time...
NOVEMBER 18, 2003 Asked whether the Faculty would vote on his Allston proposals, Summers replied with a quick “no.” In a follow-up, he said, “Matters that are curricular are matters of the Faculty, but matters regarding the allocation of resources by Massachussetts Law are reserved for the Harvard Corporation.” Professors did vote to add the words “gender and sexuality” to the name of the Committee on Women’s Studies. In an interview later, Mansfield said the change would...