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After a fall semester that overflowed with debate on curricular review and the future of general education at Harvard, one would expect members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) to come running back to University Hall this month to continue their discussions...
...Force on General Education delivers its final report—professors vote on its guiding philosophy. If they do not support this focus on citizenship and non-academic relevance, then no matter how the categories are finally outlined, the College will end up with a slightly tweaked Core. The Curricular Review has not lasted four years to tweak the Core; it’s here to fundamentally redefine Harvard’s general education. We hope that professors approve this philosophy, and begin the arduous task of implementing its rule over a much, much different “Core...
...stayed at Harvard since his graduate days, has now spent almost 20 years teaching. He has also sat on three curricular review committees and works halftime as dean of the Summer School...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), the Committee on Graduate Education’s (CGE) legislation to mandate evaluations of all Teaching Fellows (TFs) passed without a whisper of holding the Faculty to the same standard. While the Faculty’s desire to focus the meeting on curricular reform is understandable, it is utterly dismaying that a quick, easy consensus could not be reached on asking professors to be held accountable in the same way TFs will...
...that the General Education task force has lost its faith in religion, the long-anticipated Gen Ed overhaul looks more like the Core than it has at any point during the four-year-long curricular review. The Faculty’s challenge, if and when the proposed curriculum is implemented, will be to recast the generation-old and much-maligned Core into a system with a radically different mission but an uncannily similar structure and nomenclature. The task force that crafted the proposal distributed a letter before yesterday’s Faculty meeting saying it was eliminating...