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Kenen added that the curriculum will undergo a review in 2012, five years after the Gen Ed vote in May 2007—the committee that conducts the review may recommend to the Faculty that the number of categories be reduced, depending on the results in the next few years...
Both architects of the new General Education curriculum said that they would have preferred a program with fewer than eight categories to give students more leeway for electives...
English Professor Louis Menand and Philosophy Professor Alison Simmons—the two co-chairs of the Task Force on General Education, which wrote the legislation for the new curriculum to be launched this fall—said that they are concerned that the eight-category requirement may constrain students’ schedules, especially those who will also be pursuing secondary fields...
After Menand and Simmons submitted their report to the Faculty for discussion in February, they and the rest of the task force decided not to speak at Faculty meetings until the final Gen Ed vote in May. They said wanted to let the Faculty finish shaping the curriculum and feel as though it was their...
...really believe that it’s about high expectations, strong curriculum, and excellence in structure,” Young said...