Word: curriculum
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This year the administration created a student-faculty Racial Harassment Committee to determine precedent and procedure for dealing with racial harassment, and a student-faculty Academic Affairs Committee to deal with increasing racial awareness by means of the curriculum. The Academic Affairs Committee is currently investigating ways to increase the number of courses on American ethnic minorities and the number of minority faculty members...
...academic front, he built the John F. Kennedy School of Government, that while faulted by some for a lack of mission is universally seen as the foremost school of its kind. Bok is also credited with originating the "New Pathways" program at the Medical School, a revolutionary medical curriculum that emphasizes personal skills. He is also widely regarded for shaping the so-called case method of teaching at the Business School...
...member of the faculty is looking from the inside, Rosovsky is. The 59-year-old Polish native has experienced almost every aspect of Harvard faculty life from his years as a graduate student to dean of the Faculty, during which he established the current Core curriculum. Yet, at no point in his Harvard career has he seen himself as fitting into one niche, he says...
While Bok has made the teaching of ethics a priority since his installment in Massachusetts Hall 16 years ago, the University-wide ethics program which Thompson now heads and the establishment of an undergraduate Moral Reasoning Core requirement are Harvard's only comprehensive programs to integrate ethics into the curriculum...
While it is true that CMES has been encountering difficulties in the areas of structure, coordination of resources, and curriculum planning, we reject the implication that all of CMES's problems can be pinned to the events of 1986. Even more, however, we reject the implication that the Center has been stagnating and disintegrating ever since then. Due in large part to new junior and senior faculty members and a new student organization, activities have increased in quality, quantity, and breadth, giving the Center a new vitality...