Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...September 1971, the library stood only half built, its books stored in a brewery. "We didn't have any buildings or dorms," recalls Physics Teacher Byron Youtz. Some classes met in local churches, and one convened on a lakeshore. Faculty members had no promise of tenure, and the curriculum consisted--as it still does--of Socratic seminars, Great Books courses and the like. Instead of grades, students got written evaluations, and still do. The original student body of 1,000 included a fair number of hippie types, to the dismay of the down-home state legislature, which showed a recurring...
...report, commissioned by the MIT Committee to Design an Integrative Curriculum in the Liberal Arts, recommended the establishment of a College of the New Liberal Arts to "enable students to achieve a high degree of competence in both a science or engineering subject and one of the HASS (humanities, arts, or social science) subjects...
Students and faculty of the new college would not be "second class," the report concluded, for the curriculum would be "exceptionally demanding." Marx warned, however, that MIT must be careful not to "dilute its strength as an engineering school" and become "a second rate Harvard...
...Medical School has promoted social awareness activities outside the curriculum as well, including community outreach programs and academic societies, Federman says...
...tools the Medical School has available to it, the curriculum and financial awards (Harvard has no control over the policies of affiliated hospitals) would be insufficient even if the school used them to achieve social goals, according to Rashi Fein, professor of economics in the Department of Social Medicine and Health Policy...