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...stake” in deciding whether President-elect Drew G. Faust would continue to write and file an annual report. In his report, which was addressed to the alumni Board of Overseers, Bok reflects on the major projects of his year, citing in particular the completion of the curricular review, the continued momentum on Harvard’s expansion into Allston, and the establishment of the Harvard University Science and Engineering Committee, which is charged with encouraging interdisciplinary scientific research. Bok’s assessment captures a university in transition. He writes that the curricular review’s recommendations...
...trust the Faculty must, particularly because this is not the end. As Pilbeam has reminded his colleagues, “We are just in the middle of shaping a new curricular landscape...
...When Derek C. Bok came back to Cambridge last spring, he found the four-year long curricular review “on life support,” he said recently...
...rejected a proposal to move fall exams to December, with professors saying they were unconvinced that such a move would benefit them. Ten years later, a University-wide committee proposed changing the calendar in a similar way—but the plan was tabled pending the end of the curricular review...
Presidents, deans, and professors have completed the policy phase of Harvard’s Curricular Review. The General Education curriculum had a difficult birth. Former University President Lawrence H. Summers and former Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences William C. Kirby orphaned the Core Curriculum in 2003, without a vision of what should replace it. When a dazzling replacement did not develop quickly, the President disappeared from the discussion and was not heard from again. A year ago, an increasingly leaderless Faculty proposed a simple distribution requirement...