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Previous plans for the campaign, described by administrators over the past two years, called for an emphasis on academic programs across the University, while leaving direct fundraising for Allston to a later campaign. But as other selling points, including the College’s much-hyped Curricular Review, have failed to inspire donors, Allston has become the University’s best sales pitch...
...ability to really motivate alumni to give,” said a major alumni donor who has been closely involved with plans for the campaign. “Everything else is weak right now. You can’t ask people to donate their money to a Curricular Review that barely even exists...
...April 2004, the Harvard College Curricular Review (HCCR) recommended that freshmen be assigned to their upperclass Houses before their arrival at the College. Freshman entryways would be configured along House lines and freshmen would be included in House life as soon as they arrived on campus. The response from many, including this page, was dismay. Calls for what was has become known as Yale-style housing were ridiculed as foolish and counterproductive. The scheme, many claimed, would deprive freshmen of their right to choose the group of friends with whom they would live as upperclassmen. Class unity would be jeopardized...
Through the Harvard College Curricular Review (HCCR), the College and its departments are taking their first faltering steps towards reconciling these priorities at odds. Using the apt words of Saltonstall Professor of History Charles S. Maier 60, whereas Harvard students long ago labored under a General Education curriculum designed to instill values, and now under a Core Curriculum aimed at teaching methods, the future of distributive requirements at Harvard will fall somewhere in between. Maier, writing in Essays on General Education in Harvard College, himself touts connectivity as this Golden Meana reaction to the gradual deprivileging of Western values...
...taken at Harvard by a few hundred students each year, is a remnant of the post-World War II liberal arts curriculum. It survived the Core Curriculum innovations of the 1970s and now cowers in a corner of the course catalogue, hoping to avoid the axe of the current curricular review...