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Tonight, the Faculty of Arts and Science will consider a motion from Professor Warren Goldfarb (on behalf of the curricular review’s Educational Policy Committee) to push concentration choice back a semester. The reasons for the switch seem fairly logical—a slew of first-year requirements and opportunities makes it difficult for freshmen to explore new academic areas in a meaningful way—and the change would bring the College in line with many of its peer institutions...
...supposed to live without you, when all that I’ve been living for is gone?” This easy listening therapy is not limited to ex-thesis writers, but can actually relate to many seniors current plights of giving up their extra-curricular commitments that they have been “loving” over the past four years. The verb “loving” could be interchanged with writing, playing, leading or any one of the other words describing the actions of graduating seniors. Moving on is hard to do…and thus...
...successful, the Harvard College Curricular Review will transform introductory courses from the narrowly focused Core designed to teach a “way of knowing” into a sweeping, interdisciplinary intellectual odyssey. In order to do so, however, changes must go beyond a mere shuffling of syllabi and involve fundamental changes in pedagogy. We believe this will require reform in Harvard’s stringent policies on hiring full-time teachers.On this page, we have repeatedly maligned the Core Curriculum and endorsed the recommendation of the review’s Committee on General Education, in which students would...
...needs for social and academic initiatives. In addition, the Faculty appoints of the Dean of College, who plays perhaps the most significant role in the student experience at Harvard. As an example of the influence the Faculty has on academics, recall that Kirby and the Faculty administered the curricular review, whose fruits will govern undergraduates’ academic life for the next generation. The decisions made by the new dean will thus have a considerable effect on the student body. It is only fair that a person in a position with such a large effect on students is chosen with...
...University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1964 and was named dean 15 years later, according to the press release. In 1982 he left for the University of Iowa where he served as president for five years. As president of Dartmouth from 1987 to 1998, Freedman oversaw an extensive curricular review, the most successful capital campaign in the school’s history, and a large expansion in facilities, according to the press release. Freedman is also the author of several books, and his autobiography will be published posthumously, Halberstam said. Freedman is survived by his wife, two children, and four...