Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...softened demands were both approved. A committee under Henry Rosovsky, professor of Economics, was named to study the long-range role of black studies in the Harvard curriculum. And on May 16 of this year Dean Ford announced plans for Soc Sci 5. That same day Richard E. Neustadt, chairman of the General Education Subcommittee in the Social Sciences, cautioned that experts in this new academic area were not readily available: "We felt the important thing was to get serious faculty working in a serious way rather than wait for the right expert to come along...
...drama at Harvard was simultaneously replayed at dozens of other universities. Even as Harvard announced its plans for Soc Sci 5, 100 representatives of 35 colleges and universities were meeting at Yale to listen to many leading black intellectuals arguing in favor of including black-experience courses in the curriculum...
...leads to segregation. This is to isolate cultures in a way no national culture could stand. There are two main reasons we don't agree. One, we don't set up a course to teach any particular kind of student. Two, this would make a shambles of any curriculum, this hang-up between national and intellectual criteria. It is our feeling that a narrative can be honestly taught by honest...
...himself. This occurred during a panel discussion between the novelist Ralph Ellison and Alvin Poussaint, a Negro phychiatrist, at Brandeis University. Dr. Poussaint argued the ridiculious line I attacked in my letter in Tuesday's Crimson, namely, that no white scholar could or should teach a so-called black curriculum, and the Social Sciences 5 critic with me at the panel turned excitedly toward me to register his agreement with Dr. Poussaint. Now I admit that men are free in our mad society to be racist bigots. But they ought to have enough guts to admit that this is what...
...center, which temporarily has its headquarters in Cambridge. The major stimulus for forming the center, he said, "has been the accelerating interest of students and faculties in the film, and recognition of its role as a major art form of our time and a fit subject for the college curriculum...