Word: curriculum
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Pilbeam will review with faculty and students the impact of the shortened shopping period and whether it improved course management, he said. He will then present conclusions to the Faculty Council, which oversees curriculum issues. Pilbeam emphasized that the shortened shopping period is an experiment and will be modified if necessary...
These conservative critics say they are trying to combat a decline in the quality of the core curriculum at many of the nation's colleges and universities. They argue that, during the last 20 years, colleges and universities have become increasingly politicized, giving way to the demands of special-interest groups...
...trying to create a required curriculum," said John P. Walters, the new executive director of the Madison Center and Bennett's former chief of staff at the Education Department. "What we're trying to do is say that the central question in the higher education community should be, 'what are the most important works for undergradutes...
...view of curriculum is quite a bit narrower than educators feel is essential," Shattuck said. "Bennett's view is that the classics and a few well-trodden works are essential [to a college curriculum], and while they're essential, they're not enough...
Dean of the Law School James Vorenberg '49 said yesterday that he thinks the change in the first-year curriculum is "a great opportunity that meets many of the proposals and ideas students had for more feedback and [legal] writing...