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...central administration, though neither the dean nor the president acknowledged their falling-out in letters released Friday. Kirby’s announcement, between semesters at the College, leaves the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in limbo as the school contends with a growing budget deficit and a curricular review beset by criticism and delays...
Kirby’s tenure, which began in July 2002, has been dominated largely by the Harvard College Curricular Review, which has been plagued by criticism that it lacks ground-breaking ideas and a strong guiding philosophy. Progress on the review stalled last year while the Faculty’s attention was occupied by debate over Summers...
There should be no delusions about the Harvard College Curricular Review (HCCR). Its suggested implementation of distribution requirements merely expands “student choice”—to use the most favorable name for what really is a vile concept—to the disadvantage of the academy’s mission to guide and educate its students...
...Harvard College Curricular Review (HCCR) is finally brought before the Faculty in the coming semester, its focus will shift from broader issues of general philosophy and overall framework to finer details of implementation. Chief among these unresolved details is the pressing issue of how and when to transition from the Core Curriculum to the new system. Because of the deficiencies of the Core and the ostensible simplicity of a transition, the best course of action for current students is “instant implementation”—getting rid of the Core and moving all students...
Summers initially served as an ex officio member of the curricular review’s Committee on General Education, which Kirby chaired, but the president ended his participation in the review after professors complained that Summers was exerting too much influence on their deliberations...