Word: curricular
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...invested in the architecture and infrastructure that give form to our ambitions in the sciences, international studies, and the arts: the laboratories, centers, studios, and theaters that are now permanent parts of our collective future. Third, and most important, we have recommitted ourselves to our students: by processes of curricular review and renewal; increased financial aid for undergraduate and graduate students alike; and expanded educational opportunities for them across Harvard and around the world. For our continued growth in all these domains we have developed a strong, long-term, financial plan...
Kirby’s resignation, while expected among some professors, 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. The review has been plagued by criticism that it lacks ground-breaking ideas and a strong guiding philosophy, and progress on the review stalled last year while the Faculty’s attention was occupied by debate over Summers...
...College’s first since the 1970s, has been beset by delays over the past year and dogged by criticism that it lacks bold new ideas. An article in The New York Times on Jan. 8 noted that the general education report contained concepts already produced by curricular reviews at Yale and other peer institutions and said that the report “landed on many desks not so much with a thud as a rustle...
...history of our curricular reforms in the past century shows that Harvard has been better at making large curricular statements than it has been in improving the teaching of its undergraduates,” Kirby wrote in the letter. “We should be pleased for this Faculty to engage in a firm defense of the ideals of a liberal education—vulnerable here as anywhere—but only if, in the same moment, we really improve what we do here...