Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...annoying truisms about big ideas is they usually demand big money. The Core Curriculum, the general education program which the Faculty will begin to phase in next year, is no exception. So it was with an equally big sign of relief that the Faculty this week accepted the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's $1.25 million grant for the Core, the first grant exclusively designated to aid the Core's development...
James S. Ackerman, head tutor in Fine Arts, yesterday also expressed doubts about the future of the tutorial reforms. He said his department may be "overloaded with rules" next year, because they must also adhere to the regulations of the Core Curriculum. "If we get enough rules, we won't be able to fulfill any of them," he added...
WHEN THE STANDING COMMITTEE on the Core Curriculum releases the official 1979-80 listings of Core courses in a few weeks, undergraduates will see the program for the first time. Dean Rosovsky has kept discussion of the Core behind closed doors and beyond the grasp of students. Rosovsky capped his policy of stifling student involvement when he asked the Core committee two weeks ago not to divulge any information even about the 38 courses that had already been approved by the group. The few students who serve on the standing committee or its subcommittees were forbidden to solicit opinions about...
...this statement becomes apparent when the logic is applied to the Faculty--some of whom will leave Harvard, some of whom will not choose to teach Core courses. Moreover, Rosovsky is implicitly denying that students have a valid perspective on their own educations. The Faculty created the Core Curriculum to replace the flawed and misdirected General Education program. As students under Gen Ed's sway, present undergraduates have a unique outlook on the program. They are well qualified to suggest ways in which the Faculty might best avoid repeating these mistakes...
...applied to the Faculty with equal validity. Professors who will retire next year, assistant professors who will not receive tenure and professors who don't plan to teach Core courses are also unaffected by the Core. Should Rosovsky have barned them from the Faculty debates on the Core Curriculum last year...