Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...administration has recently rejected 12 candidates for tenure in the Afro-American Studies department and is opposing departmental efforts to form a graduate studies program and has not asked for any input from the Afro-American Studies department concerning the recently proposed Core Curriculum, the associate professor added...
...Core Curriculum proposal is upon us, and I hear far too little opposition. The problem with the learning environment at Harvard is hardly an unclear definition of what is important. The Core Committee has laid out its ideal of what the liberally educated student should be like, and they have tried to devise a system to move us in that direction. What people need is exactly the opposite...
...their work and maximize their grades. We have more choices to make than students in the past, and too many of us deal with them through mindless pre-professionalism and confused leave-taking. Meaningful choices grow out of people; they need to be nurtured, and not directed. The Core Curriculum proposal is an attempt to direct...
...Harvard, the Faculty Council's attempts to integrate student opinion into discussions of the proposed Core Curriculum have thus far proven unsuccessful. While publicly encouraging students to work through existing student-faculty committees such as the Committee on Undergraduate Education, the Faculty Council has also rejected the concept of direct student representation on the Core Committees, which will devise the actual courses for the new curriculum...
John A. Matheson, a student enrolled in the Master of Divinity program, says he is in "general agreement" with the idea of a core curriculum. "Students come here with one pet field" and get ordained as ministers after graduation without a general knowledge in all fields, Matheson says...