Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with Mr. Emmerich's assessment that CUE meetings are "secret." Although interpretations may differ, I believe (as does Webster's) that "secret" means keeping information from general knowledge. From this understanding, an important fact emerges: the CUE does not "conduct its meeting in secret" because--save for the 'Core Curriculum' meeting of February 6--minutes are available for every CUE meeting as well as reports from any CUE member, including its chairperson Dean Bowersock...
...would like to take issue with J. Wyatt Emmerich's editorial "Harvard: Behind Closed Doors," published in your February 13, 1978 edition. First, a clarification should be made: the blanket on the Report on the Core Curriculum is temporary; as I understand it, the Core report will be made public as soon as it is formally introduced to the Faculty. The justification for the confidentiality was delivered to myself and other members of the Educational Resource Group (ERG) by Associate Dean Glen W. Bowersock; he explained that a breach of protocol might irritate Faculty members to such a degree that...
...largely attributed to the fact that campus reporters are barred from the CUE and ERG meetings..." In the thirteen months since I was first elected to ERG, there has been only one meeting closed to the public, the meeting of February 11, 1978 during which the Core Curriculum report was discussed. ERG meetings are not closed to the press; in fact, explicit invitations to these meetings have been extended to both The Crimson and The Independent on numerous occasions, but no Crimson reporter has ever made an appearance. I strongly believe that campus publications can help muster student opinion...
DIED. Charles Woolsey Cole, 71, former president of Amherst College (1946-60); of a heart attack; on a cruise ship off Los Angeles. The youngest man ever to head Amherst, Cole introduced a core curriculum required for all students and greatly enlarged the college's endowment. From 1961 to 1964 he served as Ambassador to Chile...
That was the word this week from Faculty members and students on the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE), who began hinting at the from the proposed core curriculum will take when the Faculty finally gets a chance to vote...