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...President Bok has openly said he’s taken a hands-off approach to the curricular review, and he said that’s something he’s going to leave to the next president and the next dean of the faculty. What are you going to do personally over the next year or so to bring the review to a close...
...actually have been involved as a faculty member in the stages of the curricular review up until now. I think now it’s probably appropriate for me to back off. It’s the faculty’s business. The faculty is working on this review, and they’re very energized about it. I have great optimism about where it’s going, and I think it will be their decision and their involvement which will make it come to the best outcome...
President-elect Drew Gilpin Faust said in a phone interview this evening that Harvard has been reinvigorated during the tenure of Interim President Derek C. Bok, and that she is now ready to continue the University’s expansion into Allston and watch over the completion of the curricular review. When asked how long she would stay in office, Faust said only that she hoped to have “a long and successful term,” noting Bok’s prediction at an earlier press conference that she would serve 30 or 40 years...
...that she will be able to grasp intellectually the material and to understand programmatically what’s needed,” Grosz said last month. Though Faust will have the opportunity to bring new projects to the docket, she will also have to tackle the ongoing Harvard College Curricular Review and the search for a new dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Faust had been considered a leading candidate for that post, and her selection as president now throws new doubt into the looming dean search. Some have speculated that Harvard will look to a scientist...
...dire need of reform. The new president cannot afford to sit idle while undergraduate education slides into confusion under the watch of an indecisive Faculty. The most recent and final general education report outlines a range of new distribution requirements, but sorely lacks details for its implementation. After a curricular review process that has taken over four years and the release of a pedagogy report that risks being ignored, the onus is on Faust to ensure that no more time is wasted in fixing Harvard’s broken undergraduate experience...