Word: curriculum
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...unbending opponent of divestiture. Bok first diagnoses the need for business managers more well-versed in the ways of government regulation, employee relations and the ethics of international operations. Few would argue against his advice, and Business School faculty are quick to point out parts of the present curriculum that already cover these fields...
...changes in the use of the case method are bound to be glacial. Still, the term covers many different types of teaching, "as many different types as there are cases," according to one professor. The changes Bok proposes for the Business School curriculum are another matter. He favors the creation of separate new courses to cover the emerging disciplines of ethics, employee relations, and government regulation...
...faculty recently approved the recommendations of a committee chaired by Heskett, which studied the Business School curriculum for two years. Under the revised curriculum, the areas Bok outlines get treatment in bits and pieces in a variety of courses, including "Human Behavior in Organizations," "Business Policy," and "Business, Government, and the International Economy." There is no separate ethics course. Heskett says the Business School prefers to treat ethical problems wherever they come up in each course, rather than pigeon-holing them into one course which might, be dominated by those students who already have a special interest in ethics...
...BUSINESS FACULTY is unlikely to sit down to review its curriculum again in the near future. This leaves Bok's suggestions in limbo, making his report more a spur to discussion than a set of concrete reform proposals. Even so, Business School administrators should take the report as a sign that others within and without the University are concerned about the strength of the school's commitment to ethics. Witness the flurry of media attention earlier this year over a course in "Competitive Decision-Making" taught by Howard Raiffa, Ramsay Professor of Managerial Economics, which drew fire from the Wall...
Shils' remarks may be, as Government spokesmen charge, both intemperate and premature. But "Caesar's" reach is an object of concern throughout academia. "Governmental intrusion is a considerable and growing problem," says Stanford President Richard Lyman, 55, adding, "but curriculum and academic quality have not been seriously threatened." Affirmative Action Critic Nathan Glazer, a sociologist at Harvard, says a real danger to academic freedom is that faculty members "don't want to go to all the trouble" of proving they have been unable to find qualified blacks or women, so they tolerate inferior appointments...