Word: curriculum
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...addition to the four schools for Africans (a fifth, for Ethiopian children, is due to open soon), the island is dotted with boarding schools for 20,000 Cuban students; all these institutes combine an academic curriculum with manual labor and ideological training. Part of their educational program, says Roberto Ogando, a political leader on the island, is "to learn that as members of a controlled democracy they have an obligation to work -and if necessary even to fight-with their hands." In keeping with the Isle of Pines' conversion from an agricultural community (and prison colony) into a kind...
Camus's literary works have never gone out of print, but his message has often been muted or ignored. Until now. In America he is a part of the curriculum on almost every campus; even in France, where he was almost pathologically rejected by Sartre's followers, he is being rehabilitated. Says Historian Christian Jambet, 29, whose analysis of revolution, L'Ange, has become a modern classic...
Rosovsky does not, however, believe that any effort he takes to face the problems of graduate education at Harvard will necessarily be of as great a scope as the undergraduate curriculum reform. "The issues are different. The problems of graduate education are not curricular," he notes. Instead, the Faculty faces "more difficult questions, very intellectual in nature," which relate to the problem of defining the role of graduate education in a society that is growing rapidly more professional in its outlook. "It's a question of demographics--how to reconcile the requirements of academic life with the outside world...
...changes came on all fronts. From above, Dean Henry Rosovsky was leading the Faculty of Arts and Sciences into its first major revision of the undergraduate curriculum in a decade--a revision that would spark considerable student opposition and place the ill-defined phrase "Core Curriculum" into a hundred newspaper columns. From below, students pressed for a new form of self-government, as asembly that would give students the powerful voice many believed they would never attain under the nine-year-old system of student-faculty advisory committees. And finally, from the outside world there arose a different kind...
...DELEGATES to the Harvard-Radcliffe Constitutional Convention should be commended for their acute sense of the lack of any organized student voice, influence, or power in how Harvard is run. Our recent experiences with the Core Curriculum, in which the opposition of 65 per cent of the student body was ignored, and with Harvard's contribution to apartheid, in which the united petition of over 3000 students was ignored, expose the costs of having no leverage over the University...