Word: curriculum
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LAST SPRING a Faculty committee reviewing the curriculum of Harvard's ROTC program discovered that two courses required security clearances of their students. "We're going to get on the phone and try to have this straightened out," Dean Glimp commented the day the committee released its report. And sure enough, neither of the courses is still classified...
Security clearances have no place in the undergraduate curriculum. It is good to see them gone and encouraging that Harvard administrators could so quickly convince ROTC officials to revise their program. But a reform like this one is too safe to get excited over...
...real issue--ROTC's peculiarly privileged status at Harvard--has not been touched. Why should students be given academic credit for pre-professional military training? Last year's faculty evaluation of the curriculum glossed over that question, and it is one that this year the Faculty ought to answer...
House courses are a major step toward decentralized instruction, and except for the system of residential tutors, Harvard has long resisted that concept. Last year both faculty and student committees at Yale recommended that the colleges (the Yale equivalent of Harvard houses) take the lead in developing new curriculum. But Yale has nothing like the Gen Ed program, and some argue that part of the function of a college-wide Gen Ed program is to develop new courses on a college-wide basis. They argue that house courses may move Harvard toward the English college system in which appointments...
...surprise, Governor Ronald Reagan announced that Cleaver had to go. "It's true, what they've been saying about me all these years," Reagan told chortling reporters on Thursday, "I'm an anti-intellectual. I'm going to take apart the curriculum of this University by at least one course...