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...advocates say that his bull-in-a-china-shop style is exactly what Harvard needs. The rhetoric of that argument is powerful, but the logic curious. After all, Summers has repeatedly sandbagged his own agenda by igniting pointless and distracting controversies. In other instances, such as the curricular review, President Summers’ insular leadership has probably made his work less successful rather than more. What, exactly, has Larry Summers done that Neil Rudenstine could not have also accomplished, and without the trauma...
Even though we hear more about discothèques than dissertations, the moribund Harvard College Curricular Review champions the value of “international experiences.” In a generally boring and predictable pedagogical shakeup, internationalization has become the one “visionary” plank in the Review’s shaky platform. Indeed, if some form of the current Review proposals pass, the College will continue at least to encourage its students to take a semester off and live in a foreign country...
...universities in other countries. And making general claims about the value of study abroad is a dubious science at best without solid studies to back them up. (Lack of evidence, incidentally, goes both ways—hopefully Harvard will compile a few of these before it sets anything in Curricular Review stone.) I also think that spending a semester or a year in a foreign country, no matter how inebriated you get, is fun, relaxing and, sometimes, a broadening experience...
...motion comes as top administration officials try to move discussion of faculty discontent with Summers out of Faculty meetings and into more private settings, both to diffuse discontent and to ensure that other administrative issues—particularly the Curricular Review—are discussed...
...administration’s goal earlier this year was to complete the Curricular Review by the end of this semester...