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During his tenure, he oversaw Yale’s most recent curricular review. Brodhead spoke at a 2002 symposium hosted by the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences about his experience leading the curricular review, a month after Harvard launched its own review...
...order to maintain Harvard’s academic reputation, the new president must remain committed to undergraduates. Students come here to learn from the leaders in their fields, not to be the secondary concerns of preoccupied professors. It is important to continue work on teaching initiatives within the curricular review, but the new president should go further and introduce tenure for excellent pedagogy alongside research posts. Such actions would help to reduce the tension between research and teaching for the faculty so that the “publish or perish” climate does not interfere with professors?...
...small number of meetings is disheartening. Last year, the Faculty was able to muster the courage and patience to meet 14 times, including a January meeting. But when meetings were scheduled for this year, the Faculty decided to revert—even with the daunting task of finalizing the curricular review before it—to its normal, nine-meeting schedule...
...this wildly diverse environment. For 30-odd years, young learners have been fed into the Core Curriculum’s crucible of randomness. Though for the Faculty, this is real, damn it, and not some merely contrived artifice. And now, by way of these professors’ new Curricular Review, comes the watchword “internationalization.” (The professoriate might as well giddily exclaim, “Radicalize the Revolution...
...Faculty will now have five meetings between now and Commencement in order to enact legislation on the curricular review...