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Always ready with a quip to break the ice or the tension, Verba has chaired committees on affirmative action, ROTC and the issue of gays in the military, the last curricular review that instituted the Core requirements, and the revision of the Harvard calendar...
...shopping period races by, the Core Standing Committee and the Educational Policy Committee (EPC) have failed to keep pace, leaving students to suffer in the confusion of mixed tempos. Despite the promise that accompanied announcements of a secondary fields program and Humanities General Education courses, the disorganized implementation of curricular reform has made this shopping period a particularly chaotic...
Harvard has failed to accompany its announcements of new initiatives with concrete information about the ways in which those initiatives will effect students; instead, students have been left sorting through empty promises of curricular renewal. The Curricular Review is motivated by a desire to improve undergraduate education; to be successful, the implementation of reforms must do more than confound our shopping period woes...
...advisor to me since I became dean and we decided to make it a recognized position,” Gross wrote. Pilbeam served as dean of undergraduate education and most recently as chair of the committee on advising and counseling—one of the few committees in the curricular review whose recommendations were implemented. Along with his role as senior adviser, Pilbeam will co-chair the Education Policy Committee (EPC) with Gross. Formed in 1992 by Interim Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Jeremy R. Knowles, the EPC is responsible for making suggestions for curricular reform. Although...
...first step to overcoming a problem is admitting that you have one, then Harvard is on the right track with the creation of the Task Force on Teaching and Career Development. In an initiative independent of the Harvard College Curricular Review, the faculty on the task will submit recommendations to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) this spring on improving pedagogy within FAS.The curricular review’s January report on pedagogy gives us some inspiration about where this task force might focus its efforts. That report identifies key areas for improvement, such as the gathering and interpretation...