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...hard to get funding for most activities.”Associate Dean of Advising Programs Monique Rinere wrote in an e-mail that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) is “generously” funding the program. FAS first recommended the program as part of its curricular review.“We feel it is very important to support our freshmen and the students who want to support and guide them throughout the year,” adding that the funding is “in line” with the budget of peer advising programs...
...committee of professors to draft legislation for the fall on the next system of general education. But the shape of that system, as speeches in the last half hour of yesterday’s meeting demonstrated, is far from clear.Two professors who have played key roles in the curricular review rose to say they were dissatisfied with the current proposal, which the Committee on General Education released last fall.Charles S. Maier ’60, the Saltonstall professor of history who served on that committee, said that the proposed looser distribution requirements should be reconsidered.“I, myself...
...Lewis ’68 has branded Harvard “soulless,” arguing that the institution fails to exert any “formative force” on its students and that the faculty are “exhausted” by their work on curricular review...
...other hand, he said, the undergraduate academic program lacks direction, and the faculty have “come up dry” after three years of working on the curricular review...
...which will likely apply retroactively, according to CSC student member Aaron D. Chadbourne ’06, who attended yesterday’s meeting. The push to approve more departmental alternatives for Core requirements now is a result of uncertainty about the future of the curricular review’s General Education proposal, said Harvard College Professor Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, a member of the CSC. While the faculty continues to debate General Education, expanding Core offerings will alleviate student concern that the Core is too restrictive, Ulrich said. “If someone would like to take a more challenging...