Word: curriculum
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...Quantitative Reasoning Requirement (QRR) will be more difficult for the class of 1992, and may be on its way to becoming an eleventh Core Curriculum topic, some of its administrators said yesterday...
...subcommittee acted because of professors' complaints that their students often pass the exam without understanding the material, said Aaron S. Richmond '91, one of two students on the subcommittee, which is part of the Standing Committee on the Core Curriculum. He said the changes in the program would make freshmen work harder to understand the material, but would also give them more help with studying...
Because of his respect for students' freedom in deciding their moral values, Bok turns away from the curriculum to "efforts beyond the classroom" to teach ethics. But like his opening analogy about the hollowness of Commencement Day platitudes, Bok's report is not an "accurate description of the facts" concerning the University's ethical standards. In a number of areas, Harvard policy has failed to act ethically "in dealing with moral issues facing the university...
Fearing more protests on an already troubled campus, the school administration readily agreed to the TAA's demands for salary increases, improved working conditions and increased graduate student input in the curriculum...
...colleges and universities," he asked, "on the issue of their responsibility to foster moral discernment in their students? With the exception of a relatively few places--mostly religious or military institutions--higher education is silent." When asked about efforts such as the moral reasoning courses in the Core Curriculum, he replied: "That's about [moral] dilemmas, lifeboat stuff. I don't mean theory. I meant getting drugs off campus." Alas, the debate was never squarely joined, nor has it been in other forums. Bennett and his supporters seem bent on caricaturing the new courses without understanding what the instructors...