Word: curriculum
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...curriculum does not exist in the abstract,” Kirby said. “This will succeed or fail according to the quality of courses and teaching and learning...
This school year has been one of great transition for Harvard. While the University saw the beginning of a new era with the installation of President Drew G. Faust, the College has undergone a radical change in admissions policy, a huge expansion of financial aid, and a revamped curriculum. While The Crimson was generally optimistic about the College’s new programs, we turned a critical eye to their implementation, as well as to inept bureaucratic attempts to tamper with existing structures...
...devolved into an insipid mash-up of compromises that is essentially a redux of the old Core. A scant 37 Gen Ed courses have been approved for the 2008-2009 academic year, and only seven more for the following fall. Despite being set to supplant the long-criticized Core curriculum by 2009, a mere 60 proposals have even been submitted, many of which are nothing more than adapted Core courses. Meanwhile, continuing efforts to get professors to adapt their courses to the dying Core system have proven to be largely inadequate...
...making higher education more accessible to those entering its freshmen ranks, but that opportunity amounts to little if the administration pays less heed to students once on campus. If students are to enjoy a meaningful collegiate experience, their lives should be enriched not only by a intellectually coherent curriculum, but also by a student body so diverse as to include those entering from other universities...
...interim dean of the College this past year after Benedict H. Gross ’71 stepped down.During a time of University-wide administrative transition, Pilbeam stepped in to keep the College on track—presiding over the early stages of the implementation of the General Education curriculum, the creation of a sweeping financial aid increase, and plans for a $1 billion House renewal project.But in answering a call of duty to the University, the 68-year-old from the English coast became the conveyer of a number of unpopular decisions, including the end of the Undergraduate Council?...