Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Notre Dame's students are female. To replace what he once described as "academic programs encrusted over the decades," Hesburgh insisted that students take an unusually extensive requirement of core courses (currently 39 hours out of the baccalaureate's 120), and he held to that principle through the curriculum-battering...
...prosperous institution loaded with new research facilities. Although guarded about an agenda for his new job, Shapiro, who will be Princeton's first Jewish president as well as the first president in 120 years to be chosen from outside its faculty, cites minority enrollment and a richer core curriculum as general concerns. His first task, says Shapiro, is "to listen to students, faculty and alumni." He adds, "I hope I will get wiser as I begin to develop ideas with the faculty and others...
Council chairman Richard S. Eisert '88, who last Friday discussed tonight's agenda with Bok, said the president will also answer questions concerning the recent council reports on tenure, the Core Curriculum, University investment policy and the establishment of a student center...
...other (to him) immutable concepts in thousands of seminars across the country. "By the fact that I started to teach," he says, "I discovered school is not an education." Nor, by his lights, is college. In his view, virtually all colleges have given up the essential liberal-arts core curriculum, which now barely survives in what Adler considers relatively pure form at a few scattered schools, like St. John's in Maryland...
Mehl, who heads the Commission on Math and Sciences, proposed using the fund to develop a mathematics and science curriculum for South African secondary schools in collaboration with Ed School lecturer David Perkins, an expert in the field...