Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President Bok names Professor of Government Robert D. Putnam as the new Kennedy School dean after an eight-month search. Professors say that Putnam's entrance will likely mark the beginning of a period of extensive curriculum review after years of great internal expansion and a growing national reputation...
...President Bok's annual report to the Board of Overseers asserts that the Kennedy School must place more emphasis on a humanistic curriculum and public service if it is to train top government leaders. Less than 40 percent of the school's 1985 graduates, writes Bok, work in the public sector...
Nowhere was the issue of pluralism more prominent than in the coordination of student demands for reform in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. For years, minority groups have pleaded, demanded and bargained with administrators for ethnic studies courses to balance out the University's curriculum. In 1988, after a coalition of minority leaders filed an intensive and stinging criticism of hiring practices, the faculty finally responded...
...later, President Derek C. Bok joined in the scrutiny of Harvard's youngest professional school--the school which many have said the president regards as his principal legacy. In his first public response to the criticisms levelled at the Kennedy School, Bok called on the school to pursue a curriculum that would help public servants "move beyond being mere bureaucrats and technicians to become the kinds of human beings to whom we would willingly entrust decisions that affect our lives...
Last week the school gave its first official signs of reaction to the persistent criticisms. Ending the first phase of an intense two-year-long curriculum review, the school's faculty by a wide margin voted its approval of the general direction of the review's coordinating committee, which called for a greater emphasis on ethics and politics in the curriculum...