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Required courses have captive audiences, and, as we have seen in our previous curricular reforms, short intellectual half-lives. If our new, foundational curriculum in the life, physical, and engineering sciences is to succeed, let it be because it is better conceived and better taught, not because any one part of it is compulsory. If new Courses in General Education are to make their mark in the lineage of great Harvard courses, let it be because they are great courses, not because they are mandated. If, as we expect, the study of the broader world and the languages spoken...
...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. We should be pleased for this Faculty to engage in a firm defense of the ideals of liberal education-vulnerable here as anywhere-but only if, in the same moment, we really improve what we do here. We should aspire that Harvard College prove itself to be the equal in teaching, mentoring, and inspiration to any of the great small liberal arts colleges in the American tradition, while setting...
...first on concentrations and then on general education. We will hear further on the recommendations on writing and speaking. We will bear in mind the implications of all of these for the recommendations on advising, which colleagues have already received. If, after we have discussed the broad outline of curricular change, the planets remain in alignment, we can then revisit the question of when we teach, that is, the matter of our academic calendar...
...Report on the Harvard College Curricular Review (April...
After three years of committee meetings and draft reports, the Harvard College Curricular Review is finally moving to a period of “formal discussion and decision” that will include much-awaited legislation, Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby announced in a letter to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences today...