Word: curriculum
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...government began to apply economic theory, systems analysis and other sophisticated techniques to governmental problems--creating a new demand for trained public servants. Bankers and lawyers were superseded by economists and political scientists, and in 1966 the Littauer School became the Kennedy School, offering more degrees, formulating its own curriculum, and gaining its own faculty...
...Kennedy School offers two main programs. The traditional one-year Masters of Public Administration (MPA) provides a flexible curriculum for those in mid-career. The Masters of Public Policy (MPP) is a two-year program, with a rigid first-year curriculum oriented towards recent college graduates. Advanced degrees, three-week seminars and programs for foreign students are some of the offerings the school expects will extend its influence. In the midst of a $20 million fundraising drive, the school also plans to open five new research centers in addition to the one it opened last year...
Perhaps the most impressive thing about Harvard's effort at curriculum reform has been its success thus far in moving along without serious interruption. Dean Rosovsky and James Q. Wilson, Shattuck Professor of Government and chairman of the task force on the core curriculum, have generally revealed themselves as masters of tact in their desire to avoid setting up the backs of any possible faculty opposition...
...their project moving at such a steady pace by avoiding open debate on the details of their proposal to tighten up the present General Education requirements for undergraduates until they have thoroughly thrashed them out with concerned faculty. Little wonder that none of the key figures in the core curriculum want to say much about what's gone on this summer...
...schedule. Moses says he views the job as a combined role of dean of student life and dean of activities. Fox says of the job, "It's very important for any administrator to be very sensitive to academic affairs--that is what people came here for. But the curriculum is clearly the responsibility of the Faculty, and it's not appropriate for those of us who don't have academic appointments to be setting policy--we have to go down the middle path--the freshman dean is not here just to hold parties on Friday afternoons, either...