Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...press conference yesterday afternoon, May said he assumed department faculties and representatives of Harvard professional schools will also enter the discussions, both to counter-balance undergraduate suggestions and to give an indication how the new curriculum might be received by graduate school admission offices...
...proposed curriculum study grew out of several influences including the April student strike, in the Harvard community, May said. "It is clear that there is dissatisfaction among students, and a good deal of open-mindedness toward consideration of change among the Faculty," he said...
Dean Ford at the same time expressed guarded optimism over the possibilities of the study. "My positive reaction is thatit puts serious argument back where it belongs in the curriculum, "he said." A lot of students are not taking curriculum seriously and Dean May is right to suggest a certain urgency in this study...
Both May and Ford said they hope specific curriculum legislation will come before the Faculty this Spring. after it completes debate of the Fainsod report on restructuring...
...proposed study initiates a new concept in Faculty reform. Unlike other major curriculum reforms. typified by the 1944 General Education report. the proposal comes from the office of the dean of the College- not the Faculty itself- and does not call for a centralized review committee...