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After four long years, the Curricular Review has finally found its heart. The preliminary report of the Task Force on General Education released this week articulates a comprehensive and compelling vision of what it means to be educated in the 21st century. On the whole, the document advances a sound underpinning philosophy for general education: that all Harvard College graduates should be knowledgeable about the seminal issues that face their generation. Yet members of the Harvard community have voiced concerns about the particulars of the committee’s proposal, most notably the balance of the 10 required fields, which...
...neighboring dorms. Under the PAF Program, fellows are matched with a group of around 10 freshmen, who come from a pool of 80 to 150 students in a “single larger dorm or group of smaller dorms,” according to a College website. The Curricular Review’s faculty Standing Committee on Advising and Counseling will also advise Rinere. The Student Advisory Board, which was instrumental in designing the PAF Program, is accepting students to replace recent graduates and undergrads who have left the board. The board will have seven subcommittees this year, including...
...swift approval of the review—conducted mostly out of sight and with no public dissent among faculty members—also bodes well for Kagan, who is considered a leading candidate for Harvard’s presidency. By comparison, the undergraduate curricular review at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences has dragged on for four years—with no clear end in sight...
...mail, Elhauge called the revisions made by the Law School curricular review “bold” and “innovative,” adding that the changes passing unanimously “is like hell freezing over...
...biggest fear at the moment is that my films might be elitist, which I never intended them to be, and I don’t ultimately think that they are,” he says. Indeed, as important as his VES degree were Bujalski’s extra-curricular hours spent at the Harvard Film Archive or the Brattle. His tastes are broad: ask him what the last good film he saw was, and he’ll tell you “Predator”; ask him about the impact of studio “specialty divisions?...