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Mendelsohn says professors also felt that Kirby had failed to properly lead the curricular review, and this perception contributed to their “growing sense” that FAS issues were not being well-handled...
Soon after the vote, for example, Council members convinced Kirby to send the recently-prepared curricular review Report on General Education back to the drawing board because they felt it failed to define a guiding philosophy...
...under pressure from faculty members who said they found his input too heavy-handed, Summers withdrew from the curricular review’s Committee on General Education, on which he had served as an influential ex officio member. Summers maintains that he stepped back from the review of his own accord...
...annual letter to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby wrote, “Through curricular review and renewal, we have recommitted ourselves to our students—for whom, after all, our College and University exist.” Yet over the past year, the priorities of the Faculty have appeared to diverge from those of its outgoing dean. The Faculty has addressed few of the critical problems facing undergraduate education in any meaningful way, including those of curricular reform and the need for better teaching. Instead, it spent much...
...resemble the draft Summers has sketched. Instead, Summers’ audacious approach, far more than the specifics of his views, may be his greatest legacy to Harvard. His approach has already laid the groundwork for a science-oriented, interdisciplinary campus in Allston and encouraged members of the Harvard College Curricular Review to adopt the same interdisciplinary approach to introductory undergraduate courses. It was the president’s outspokenness that spurred even the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), which for the past year has defined itself in opposition to Summers, to assert itself in ways that will have...