Word: curriculums
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...mission: we are here to be educated as “citizens of the world,” to use a phrase often used by our (also outgoing) University president. Ostensibly, this goal of fostering global responsibility informs the structure of Harvard’s curriculum, the breadth of its extracurricular spheres, and even the makeup of its undergraduate classes. While Kirby surely meant to imply that learning is a duty, it strikes me as somewhat telling that he chose to articulate it so sternly as a “business.” Is it a good thing that...
...members and the pressing need for change, this year should have been one of thoughtful deliberation and official legislation. But this decisive stage of the curricular review depended on the Faculty’s initiative and leadership, and, regrettably, the Faculty failed to provide either.Most discouragingly, the antiquated Core Curriculum still survives amid universal disapproval, even though the HCCR’s Committee on General Education (CGE) has produced a group of exciting alternatives to replace the failed system. Professors and students alike have long recognized that the Core suffers from an arbitrary pedagogical philosophy and a needlessly restrictive...
...lost the Corporation’s support after frequent tussles with a Faculty affronted by his leadership style. But during his tenure, Summers for a time did as the Corporation had hoped, using his pulpit to extend Harvard’s international reach, push for a more rigorous undergraduate curriculum, and endorse a bolder vision for Allston development. Summers’ roadmap for the University, professors and administrators say, will be completed by future Harvard presidents. In a way, Summers’ agenda is now the University’s. In this selection of articles, The Crimson delves into...
...Lonely Accomplishment in General Education.” What troubled me most about his title was the word “lonely.” Could it be possible, I wondered, that, at a time of deep commitment to reforming general education and reinvigorating the undergraduate curriculum, there was only one faculty member in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) offering what Kavulla described as the “semblance of well-rounded, broad education to eager newcomers...
...consume the campus, that long list will be whittled down to the single individual who will ultimately set up shop in Mass. Hall.The stakes are high. The completion of Summers’ unrealized vision for the University—the pursuit of reforms to the undergraduate experience and curriculum, a formidable expansion across the Charles River into Allston, and the prospect of a record-setting capital campaign—may ironically be left to his successor, who must chart the future direction of the University.“This is the most important decision that this group of overseers will...