Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...resign. The committee continued meeting without the students. We are not sure where public service is going at this University (we don't think it's anywhere good), but we urge the powers-that-be to keep it in the hands of the students and integrate it into the curriculum; after all, it is the students and not the administrators who run the programs and spend dozens of hours each week with needy children and adults...
...wish that the Core Review Committee, designed to examine every area of the Core Curriculum, contained more than a paltry two students. The Core makes up a quarter of our curricular requirements, and it should not be changed without extensive student representation. Letters from students about changes are one thing, but listening to them in person is quite another. Last year's rejection of a proposal to make History 10a and 10b: "Western Societies, Politics, and Cultures" part of the Core does not hearten us on that front; neither does the fact that a Core reform petition signed by more...
...fight for ethnic studies has been going on for 25 years," says Irene Shen, a Columbia senior and one of the organizers of the Committee on Ethnic Studies in the Core Curriculum at Columbia. "We were really tired of being continually put off...so we made a coalition and we're really tired of waiting...
Brokaw took a college-prep curriculum, served as student council president and was elected homecoming king...
...Western civilization. Only then can we both understand other cultures' influence on our contemporary world and gain a common knowledge to tie together history, biology, mathematics and English majors once they leave school. Only then will colleges set an example to employers about the value of a truly liberal curriculum. And college presidents must take the lead...