Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past four years have seen the evolution and establishment of the Core Curriculum. Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky's pet project. Many seniors have praise for the new course offerings, but some of the more memorable aspects of the program have been the problems affiliated with its growing pains...
...stepping into office at is propitious time for change--if it's change you want--since Dean Rosovsky has already cleared the deck of some difficult issues. The hoopla over the Core Curriculum has finally calmed down, and the program is firmly in place. After years of souring deficits, the Faculty budget is back to equilibrium and seems to have weathered the worst of this decade's inflation. During his last year in office, Rosovsky turned attention to a number of important long-range issues that you would be wise to pursue vigorously--undergraduate teaching, the status of junior faculty...
...climatic change occurred in 1865 after a bitter 10-year power struggle between the two governing boards. The University was still tied to the state, and the Corporation and Overseers engaged in running feuds with the legislature and each other over issues such as admissions, curriculum, and whether the University should support Unitarianism. In 1850 Governor George Bartwell tried to obtain for the legislature the power to elect members of the Corporation for six year terms. The bill was defeated, but after vigorous debate a compromise was reached which signaled the end of the old system. The Corporation was left...
...forging the model on which the University is still run today in his 30 year term of office. Under him the average age of undergraduates and faculty increased, the requirements of dorm residence and regular chapel attendance were dropped, and professors became more professional. He introduced an elective-based curriculum and was the first president to address one of the few academic issues that consistently occupies the Corporation, academic freedom. Except for one incident involving an economics professor's textbook, he introduced the doctrine that Harvard stood for "an absolute freedom from all restriction--governmental, academic, or social--on freedom...
Under a new language coordinator, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Wilga M. Rivers, the department began a curriculum overhaul that brought new courses, technology, and methods of instruction. Since these changes began in 1974, enrollment in language courses has jumped 66 percent, Rivers says...