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...seek to enlist several departments to create a Harvard College Human Rights Fellowship Program for undergraduates. These fellows would be able to take intensive junior seminars taught by faculty members throughout the University and would ultimately go on to write senior theses on human rights issues. Citing the larger curricular reforms currently underway, Marks told the crowd that “the time is right for this.” In addition to launching the committee’s agenda for the year, the event served to introduce this year’s resident “Scholars at Risk...
...celebrated her 60th birthday yesterday, University President Drew G. Faust sent a letter to the Harvard community, placing the undergraduate curricular review, expansion into Allston, interdisciplinary science initiatives, and financial aid for graduate students (see story, left) as her top priorities. Faust’s list echoed those of her predecessor, Derek C. Bok, who set out to focus on the curricular review, Allston, and science policy during his interim term last year. Faust, who took office on July 1, also outlined a theme that could figure as a defining mark of her presidency?...
...that the administrators in charge of pushing General Education afforded themselves vacations in lieu of taking even baby steps in the march to implement the new curriculum. Reinvigorating Harvard’s Core will require a Herculean effort, and sloth is not an option. This delay in curricular development has already had consequences for the newest crop of freshmen. When the Class of 2011 arrived on campus, their revamped advising system contained hardly a mention of Gen Ed, but many a mention of the Core. “We were taught to act as if there is no such thing...
...current system must wait months to hear back, if they ever do. In order to fix this problem, petitions should not only be granted for more courses, but also the process by which they are granted must be streamlined. The Faculty’s embarrassing track record on curricular reform cannot continue. With over 6,600 students wasting their time fulfilling the requirements of a failed system, University Hall must rescue the Harvard of today before building the Harvard of tomorrow...
...nationally—as has been suggested by some faculty members—Flier said that there is “no reason that the dean of the Harvard Medical School should not have a major voice in medical education nationally,” particularly in light of the curricular review. He added that he is “personally very interested in the state of health care,” but that “it is a very complicated issue” and he is not wedded to “a single answer...