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...That comment, Summers acknowledged in an interview after the speech, was a reference to Harvard’s undergraduate curricular review, launched in 2002, which became one of many flashpoints in his relationship with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). After several stumbles, the review is only now nearing completion...
...long, the improvement of writing instruction at Harvard has received mere lip service. After the Harvard College Curricular Review, the Standing Committee on Writing and Speaking was created to keep an eye on the teaching of writing, but the administration, up until the present, seemed content to rest on Harvard’s laurels. We hope that Bok’s writing test will provide concrete evidence showing such people just how necessary change is both in the Expository Writing program and across the curriculum...
...Teaching and Career Development and published in January, seeks to address growing concerns about how Faculty members balance teaching and research, according to the committee’s chair, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Theda Skocpol.In the midst of this year’s curricular reforms—the introduction of more than 30 secondary fields, delayed concentration choice, changes in advising—the report on teaching and learning has been most significantly overshadowed by the ongoing debate over general education and its future at Harvard.The Faculty is scheduled to vote on general education legislation...
...certainly observe this principle in College academics. Allowing more department courses to count as distribution requirements indeed ranked high among the priorities of the recently-concluded curricular review, so to provide students with greater flexibility...
...highest governing board affirmed its commitment to study abroad and pledged to tackle the rising costs of scholarly publication in its bi-weekly meeting yesterday. The Faculty Council did not discuss the search for the new dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences or the curricular review, according to two council members. Vice Provost for International Affairs Jorge I. Dominguez introduced Catherine H. Winnie—the new permanent director of the Office of International Programs—to the council. The two presented an update of Harvard’s study abroad programs in the past year...