Word: curriculums
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...doctors, who now make as little as $30 per hour of teaching, will be paid $100 an hour starting July 1. The move to increase funding for academic instruction reflects a push to make teaching as lucrative for doctors as treating patients, coming as Harvard Medical School revamps its curriculum to stress more faculty-student interaction. The funding, which will increase from $8 million to $16 million, will be contributed mostly by Harvard University and Harvard Medical School (HMS), with an additional $3 million coming from Harvard’s three teaching hospitals—Mass. General, Brigham and Women?...
...core curriculum with wide flexibility stresses the equivalence in value between the infinitude of academic pursuits. Permissive attitudes toward sexual deviancy imply the effective similarity between all moral worldviews, or rather deny the plausibility of any moral worldview. And Houses with similar racial compositions, ratios of concentrations, and percentages of athletes yields to each student a very comparable, if unfulfilling, living experience...
...Last fall the Task Force for General Education, made up of Harvard Faculty, two students, and an assistant dean, met to determine the future direction of the undergraduate curriculum. Based on the undergraduate community’s apparent passion for extracurricular involvement, their proposal recommended that a committee be formed to explore ways to link students’ existing activities to their current coursework. This differs from the existing Bok Center program in that it lets students take initiative in relating their non-academic pursuits to classes instead of offering courses with a specific outside component...
...students the opportunity to link the two if they choose. According to Kemper Professor of American History James T. Kloppenburg, “The goal is to give students more flexibility to plan their own undergraduate programs, experiment with various alternatives, and make changes. Locking students into a rigid curriculum ...is now seen as a problem rather than a goal...
...life and education. The dean holds the critical power of the purse over the College’s budget, and almost every student life initiative from advising to housing to social life requires the dean’s approval. The next dean also controls the fate of the College curriculum. Almost immediately, the new dean will determine whether the new General Education system is a breath of fresh air complete with new courses and more flexibility, or a reincarnation of the Core. The new dean will also have to quickly decide how to go forward with the pedagogical reforms encouraged...