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...report is one of seven being released as part of the ongoing Harvard College Curricular Review. Some elements of the review may come to a full Faculty vote as early as January, Secretary of the Faculty David S. Fithian said last month, depending on how quickly professors can reach some agreement on the review’s wide-ranging recommendations...
Skocpol reiterated her commitment to full funding of graduate students in order to remain competitive with graduate programs at other schools. She emphasized that funding will continue regardless of how the curricular review changes the demand for graduate student teaching fellows...
...Commencement address, University President Lawrence H. Summers acknowledged the “contradictory themes” driving the then-fledgling Harvard College Curricular Review. He pointed to a fundamental tension between the desire to give students “greater flexibility in choosing courses” and the goal of providing them with foundational knowledge in topics such as history, literature, and science...
...Since the curricular review began in 2003, reports and public statements have indicated a desire to create foundational courses on broad topics such as Western history. Yet that goal has been nagged by a clear uncertainty about how to reconcile these courses with the principle of allowing students the flexibility to fulfill their general education requirements through departmental courses...
...week after the Harvard College Curricular Review Report on General Education was released, faculty members say they are hopeful that its recommendations for a new system to replace the Core will be voted on by the close of the academic year.The report proposes a hybrid system of distribution requirements and broad “Courses in General Education” to allow students greater freedom of choice in course selection. Designed as an improvement on the fragmented Core Curriculum, the new recommendations reduce requirements to three general areas—Arts and Humanities, Study of Societies, and Science and Technology...