Word: curricular
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...newly announced interim University President Derek C. Bok said that he will not impose his views on Harvard’s ongoing Curricular Review. However, in his latest work, “Our Underachieving Colleges,” he labors for 343 pages to spotlight his reforms for American universities...
Later in the book, Bok criticizes the structuring of many curricular reviews. He rejects the easy idealism of many curricular reviews and instead advocates practical, common-sense improvements to the basic structures of undergraduate education...
...warns that “reviews of undergraduate education frequently proceed in a haze of unwarranted optimism without a thorough discussion of ends and means.” Only when colleges have a firm grasp of their own functioning and abilities will curricular reviews actually bring the recommended changes to fruition...
Throughout the course of the curricular review and the brouhaha around Summers’ resignation, we’ve been constantly reminded of the dearth of student-faculty interaction on this campus. While solving this problem in the purely academic sphere is daunting given our institution’s extensive inertia, far fewer hurdles stand in the way of making progress on this divide through the extracurricular route...
...have the formidable task of setting Harvard back on course, and lessons from posterity cannot but help. Our next president must smooth over the difficulties that plagued Summers and marshal the full support of the Faculty for projects such as bringing to a conclusion and implementing the Harvard College Curricular Review and forging ahead with the Allston Expansion which will define the Harvard experience for decades. Without full and honest disclosure from the Faculty of why this presidency was unsuitable, his successor may well founder on the same rocks Summers...