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...disparagement of “professional” expertise bleeds into the academic world. The conclusions of Harvard’s ongoing curricular review presume that the pursuit of expertise is a pathology Harvard must help undergraduates resist. The 2004 report identified “specialization” and “professionalization” as problems of higher education today. These dangers motivate the proposals now being implemented: delayed concentration choice, which makes concentration programs less deep; incentives for secondary fields; and discouragement of honors programs. Money is dirty: Students preparing for law, medicine, or business—including...
...after 22 years at Harvard. In September 2004, Dean of Freshmen Elizabeth Studley Nathans announced the end of her 12-year tenure at Harvard after being forced from her post, and, that same month, Associate Dean of the College Jeffrey Wolcowitz, who helped guide the College’s curricular review, abruptly stepped down from his University Hall position after 16 years in the building. In December, Doherty, a 10-year Harvard veteran who was associate dean of the College at the time, announced her intention to leave...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted yesterday to revamp the life sciences program and move concentration choice to the middle of sophomore year, capping a month of curricular reform and setting the stage for an uncertain debate on the future of the Core.The extension of the concentration choice deadline, which will go into effect for next year’s freshmen, follows the secondary fields legislation approved two weeks ago in bringing the structure of the College curriculum more in line with Harvard’s peers.Empty seats early in the session left some wondering whether the requisite one-sixth...
...move, which was recommended by a committee of the College’s ongoing Curricular Review, was approved by a voice vote at a full meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences this afternoon...
...midst of a curricular review that promises to touch every aspect of academic life, it is critical that we form some conception of what the purpose of a college education should be, specifically one committed to a liberal arts tradition...