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Over 50 faculty and students discussed ways to improve teaching at the College and analyzed Harvard’s Expository Writing Program at a forum yesterday, part of a series of discussion sessions on the Curricular Review...
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, co-leader of yesterday’s forum and chair of the Curricular Review’s Pedagogical Improvement Committee, condemned the “ingest and regurgitate” mode of teaching...
...blame for allowing his political comments to overshadow his academic commitments. But the Faculty will deserve even more if it wastes its energies in the same way. What Summers thinks about statistical variations in scientific ability is not as important as what he thinks about Allston or curricular reform, and these issues are lost amid the rancor. According to Wednesday’s Crimson, the two main docket items at Tuesday’s Faculty meeting—the progress of the Curricular Review, and a letter from the Dean of the Faculty setting out controversial new tenure procedures?...
...those are the lines the Faculty has drawn, then what are the dots? Many in the Faculty are particularly incensed at the disappointing Curricular Review, so it serves as an appropriate case study. They complain that he uses his deans to do his dirty work on this one—top down—such as when Dean of the Faculty William H. Kirby heavily “revised” the preliminary Curricular Review report last spring. As for problems with transparency, a Faculty member told me anonymously that, “The rest of the Faculty community...
...most frustrating part this wrangling, however, is that it won’t help tenure more female faculty, guide the lost Curricular Review, or make Allston a well-planned center of undergraduate life. Plus Harvard’s name will be in the news again, and the coverage is not going to be positive. None of it will serve my college well...