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...time, then-President Lawrence H. Summers, Provost Steven E. Hyman, and the all of the deans supported the report’s recommendations, but agreed to postpone a final decision until the completion of several curricular reviews across the University, including the current review in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...University should follow the substantive and procedural recommendations of the Verba committee. They stated that the University should move to the proposed framework of a limited number of uniform dates on the calendars of all the Schools, but agreed to defer final action until the completion of certain curricular reviews then underway in several of the Faculties. A copy of the March 2004 statement appears at http://www.provost.harvard.edu/reports/statement.php...
...example, when you peruse CNN.com’s Education home page, the prominently-featured links often send readers to a Harvard-angled story. This speaks to a widespread media notion that people desire any Harvard news as opposed to important Harvard news. Is our curricular review really that interesting to an outsider...
...review. It would refresh the ponderous, sometimes-suffocating Core and perhaps even reanimate academic discourse on campus. But as time wore on, as preliminary reports gave way to final reports and final reports gave way to Faculty legislation, we have become increasingly disillusioned.It now seems to us that the Curricular Review’s guiding philosophy of general education is simply too controversial and unwieldy to be practicable at Harvard at any time in the foreseeable future. It has been diluted by Faculty legislation, loopholed by the same powerful standing committees that spelled the doom of the Core, and tacked...
Pedagogical and curricular diversity in the nation’s institutions of higher learning is inherently a good thing. The government should be celebrating those differences, not trying to force everyone into the same mold...