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...incoming freshmen who flooded the campus this past weekend will face a markedly new concentration structure, as theirs will be the first class to declare a concentration in the middle of their sophomore year. While we endorse many of the reforms suggested by the Harvard College Curricular Review (HCCR), this is not one of them. Advocates of the delay argue that it will give students more time to explore their options before committing to a concentration. But the advantage of taking four extra courses seems dubious. Rather then encourage students to invest more time or thought into their decision...
...Thomas, another regular Caucus participant, are on the ten-member committee advising Bok on the search.At its April 6 meeting, the group also met with Theda Skocpol, the Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, to discuss issues such as funding for graduate students and how undergraduate curricular reforms could affect graduate students.According to McCarthy, Skocpol stressed during her meeting with the Caucus that she is working to standardize procedures amongst the numerous departments serving graduate students.“By making some of the rules and regulations a bit clearer...the staff will be able to devote...
...announced last week. These courses––most of which will be offered in 2007-08, but some of which will debut this fall––will greatly enrich Harvard’s humanities offerings along the lines proposed by the Harvard College Curricular Review (HCCR), and will serve as needed pathways into the often overspecialized world of Harvard’s arts and literature courses. Envisioned by Dean for the Humanities Maria Tatar as a “bridge between the Core” and the system of distributional requirements outlined...
...curricular review reports present no evidence that Harvard students are too narrowly educated or are becoming overspecialized. In fact, our broadly educated students welcome the challenge to compete at the highest level of their academic specialties. Those passionate ambitions seem strongest in our hungriest students, the ones eager to transcend the social and economic disadvantages to which they were born. They seek excellence because they seek success, and they welcome disciplined training that guides them toward those goals...
Harvard’s educational framework descended from the days when Oxford and Cambridge certified the British aristocracy for lives of inherited wealth. A real curricular review in today’s socio-economically diverse and distinctively American Harvard would have encouraged students to achieve their best rather than enjoy dumbed-down requirements. In the classroom as on the field, Harvard should find pride rather than shame in students’ ambition for expertise, and should shape rather than suppress their competitive spirit...