Word: curriculums
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...financial support. Even the Campus Life Fellow (better known as the fan czar) is funded largely by the Office of the President. And it’s not just student life initiatives that the FAS dean controls—everything from House life to advising to athletics to the curriculum is ultimately managed by the dean...
...least 35 professors are backing an amendment that would explicitly include “the study of the past” in the legislation implementing the proposed new general education curriculum. The amendment will likely be taken up at next Tuesday’s meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Along with nine other amendments released to professors yesterday, the history proposal represents significant faculty concern about a general education program that Harvard’s leaders are hoping will be approved by professors by the end of the academic year. The amendment aims both to insert...
...ardent activistatheist, I second David Van Biema's proposal to add the Bible to the curriculum of our public high schools. I do so for the same reason I support teaching English, keyboarding and the U.S. Constitution: each is useful knowledge for informed citizens in a democracy. My only caution: teach all of the Bible. We wouldn't sample bits and pieces of Macbeth, Jane Eyre, 1984 or Catch-22 in a literature class; we would expect students to read an entire work. Just so with the Bible. My enthusiasm for this proposal is not entirely selfless. I subscribe...
...relieve suffering, but the money has disappeared, with no benefits for the people. The only hope is people-to-people aid, like what was recently provided by Oprah Winfrey at her Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa. She funded and supervised the school's construction and approved the curriculum, instructors and the selection of the most outstanding students. If we could find another billionaire who would do the same thing for outstanding African boys, there would be hope for saving Africa from itself...
...explicitly putting together a new curriculum to blend these new fields,” Kester said. “We are drawing on two really great faculties to deliver this program...We have very high aspirations...