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...freshmen bring a little in and the seniors don’t take much away.” If universities, as Lowell seemed to suggest, are reservoirs of knowledge, then Harvard would be a particularly heavy one, slow to move. The Harvard College Curricular Review is a case in point. It was launched in the fall of 2002, and while the all the review’s committee’s had released their reports by this January, most of their recommendations remain unimplemented. Most of the reforms have been precise, sure-footed, and wide-ranging, and we look forward...
...part in a unique educational tradition. Unlike their peers in Canada or Britain (or South Africa, or Indonesia, or just about anywhere else), undergraduates in this country profit from a liberal arts philosophy that seeks to produce well-educated citizens, not well-trained professionals. As the current Harvard College Curricular Review continues to seek new ways to liberalize undergraduate academics, most recently by delaying concentration choice to the middle of sophomore year, the importance of protecting this liberal arts tradition cannot be overstated. Undergraduate engineering programs impose a daunting set of requirements on their students to maintain universal accreditation standards...
Knowles must also push forward the business of the sluggish Harvard College Curricular Review as it nears its completion. In doing so, Knowles will set an important precedent for his successor...
...deanship, which ended a year into Summers’ presidency, Knowles also encouraged greater faculty-student interaction. He expanded the Freshman Seminar Program and pushed for smaller sections in undergraduate courses.Beginning next semester, Knowles will oversee the looming debate over general education as part of the Harvard College Curricular Review. On Monday night, Knowles called the review a “major concern,” but did not specify how he intends to frame the debate.“Dean Kirby initiated a number of important new programs, and I’ll want to build upon good foundations...
...many layers of deans. It is not clear that the faculty council can do a lot about this; however, I want to do what I can in that direction.” On the subject of general education reform, the last major piece of the College’s curricular review, Schmid said that his “opinion was formed relatively early.” “I arrived at Harvard around the same time as the Core in ’78,” Schmid observed, “I always felt that the Core curriculum...