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Right now, the University’s faculty is approaching its vote on the proposed reforms of the Harvard College Curricular Review. In this review, a number of fantastic ideas have been advanced, including integrating public service into the curriculum and the elimination of the Core. A number of terrible ideas—like the move to a Yale housing system, where first-years are randomly assigned to Yard houses and funneled into predetermined upperclass houses—are also being considered by the administration. The council has the pre-existing relationships with administrators and the access to the review...
This involvement comes as the committee he sits on—one of several responsible for turning the 57 curricular recommendations issued last spring into legislation for the Faculty’s consideration—appears to be retracing old ground...
...original working group on general education spent almost a year mulling pedagogical theory before recommending the abolition of the Core curriculum. But some professors criticized the April curricular report for lacking a guiding vision or over-arching rationale, and now members of this latest committee say they have returned to broad questions of educational philosophy. The general education committee is the only one treading on such explicitly familiar territory...
Summers’ stepped-up involvement also comes following turnover in the ranks of the curricular reviews leadership. Senior Lecturer on Economics Jeffrey Wolcowitz abruptly left his position as manager of the curricular review this fall, leaving Kirby, Summers, and Gross alone at the helm...
Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71, who serves alongside Summers as another ex-officio member of the general education committee, says the president’s commitment is not a new or surprising development, and that he has been heavily invested in the curricular review since it began two years...