Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...popular rock band on campus is hardly an educated individual, and an upperclassman who can't integrate a function is hardly differentiable from a sophisticated high school graduate. This inconsistency between the expectations of a Harvard student and reality stems from an insufficient advising system and a Core Curriculum which does not make enough demands on students...
...There are too many intellectual and educational casualties among the student body of Harvard. Our students deserve better," Bennett bellowed. Not exactly a typical birthday greeting. Although Bennett raised some valid points--such as the problems with Harvard's advising system and the Core Curriculum-the good secretary failed to butress his conclusion with anything resembling researched support. Even Bok said Bennett didn't sound too "sober...
Bennett also offered an attack on the Core Curriculum as a "symbolic nod, a head feint," in the direction of a true central educational core. When Bok confronted him on the issue, Bennett displayed a remarkable ignorance of the specifics of the core program. While he was able to crack that it is a "core lite," he failed to offer any specific commentary. Yet the Core does have its pitfalls, foremost among them the fact that the undergraduates it serves, like their Secretary of Education, don't understand its foundation. The Core's mission to teach students how to think...
...heartening that the President of Harvard can defend himself and his institution from peevish and petty assaults with great skill, Bok failed deal with the important issues that Bennett did raise despite himself. On these more substantive issues--teaching, advising and, to a lesser extent, the Core Curriculum--Bok issued the sort of conditioned, knee-jerk defense of Harvard that Bennett had predicted he would...
...McLaughlin has put us in superb financial shape and has balanced the budget. He will use the rest of this year to continue to examine every phase of the curriculum in order to maintain Dartmouth's reputation of excellence," McCullough said...