Word: curriculum
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...often teaching is lifeless, arid, and without commitment," Bennett said in the report, "On too many college campuses the curriculum has become a self-service cafeteria through which students pass without being nourished...
...adds that the ideal of a common culture cannot be used as a justification for a homogenous curriculum if the majority of Americans do not attend college. "If we feel a common culture is that important, how come we're letting three-fifths of our people get away without it?" Glazer asks, "I think you can be a good citizen without reading Plato...
Riesman, a contributor to the Bennett report, differs sharply. While Glazer thinks that Harvard's Core Curriculum is the best way to clean up higher education, Riesman advocates Columbia University's Core Curriculum as the ideal to which all colleges should aspire. In Columbia's program, all students are required to take several common courses on Western civilization. Riesman argues that if every student must take at least a few of the same courses, the true meaning of colleges will be restored...
When A Michael Spence took over as Dean of the aculty last July, most people agreed that filling the shoes of former dean--and originator of the Core Curriculum--Henry Rosovsky would be a tall order...
Since the introduction of the Core Curriculum, the old honors system has been living on borrowed time. Compounding its other flaws is the simple fact that one of its key provisions is obsolete. The old regulations require summa recipients to earn two A or A-grades in each of the General Education divisions outside their major. With the phasing out of the General Education program in the coming years, satisfying that requirement would soon prove problematic. "The Committee on Undergraduate Education [CUE] and the Faculty Council were sympathetic to the purpose of that requirement, but hesitated to create a system...