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...unquestionable that Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby’s decision to step down at the end of the academic year and the imminent search for a new dean will dramatically change Faculty politics and policies. These events should not, however, derail or delay a curricular review already in its advanced stages, one that stands to improve the Harvard College academic experience dramatically...
Enough has been written about the failures of the Core Curriculum on this page, and as of late, nearly as much has been written supporting the current direction of the Harvard College Curricular Review (HCCR). In particular, the Committee on General Education’s recommendations, which propose that students satisfy general education requirements with departmental courses or foundational and integrative courses in general education, look promising. By increasing the flexibility and creating a competitive market for courses, the curricular review stands to drastically improve the fundamental nature of a Harvard education...
...dean does not fundamentally change the institution of the Faculty but merely its leadership. Just as new presidents of the United States have to execute laws influenced by their predecessors, deans have to carry out policies created by their predecessors and approved by the Faculty, which includes a curricular system. Indeed, Houghton Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Jeremy R. Knowles did not change the curriculum when he took office in 1991, and Richard H. Broadhead, who oversaw the curricular review at Yale, left soon after Yale implemented the review he oversaw...
...should be there” in the next dean.The council instructed the five-member subcommittee to work over the coming days toward forming suggestions that will be brought before the entire council early next week, Mendelsohn said.The council yesterday also heard a presentation by members of the Harvard College Curricular Review’s Educational Policy Committee (EPC).That committee has recommended delaying concentration choice by one semester to the middle of sophomore year. It has also called on the Faculty to allow undergraduates to study a “secondary field” in addition to their primary concentration.While...
...working relationship between the dean of the Faculty and the president is pivotal to the dean’s ability to act as an intermediary between the Faculty and Massachusetts Hall. Their personal dispute came to a head last year over Summers’ intervention in the Harvard College Curricular Review (HCCR)— of which Kirby was chair—a move that many in the Faculty felt overstepped the president’s role...