Word: curriculums
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...looked around and saw a way to make sure that there was an opportunity for us to do better as far as opportunities for kids,” Knight said. She also noted that the re-accreditation process forced CRLS to take a “deeper look at curriculum, taking a look at what kind of position we had in place to maintain good student achievement scores.” Knight said the school revamped its curriculum and adjusted its “learning communities,” subdivisions of the student body intended to provide students with...
...real test of a program of general education is not what it requires of the students, but what it demands of the faculty,” wrote Professor Michael J. Sandel in a January New York Times article on the Harvard curriculum. Articulating the tension between faculty research and undergraduate education in large research universities, Sandel asserted that “general education needs to lean against the specializing tendencies of departments and disciplines...
...There is no perfect curriculum,” writes Rev. Peter J. Gomes in his essay, “only one that works as well as it can for its peculiar moment in time.” The set of recommendations as it now stands says little about the contemporary challenges to a liberal arts education, focusing on streamlining our curriculum rather than remedying the antiquated ideas behind...
...don’t say this to cast aspersions on the pursuits of my peers or to suggest that a curriculum cater to these new predilections toward the social sciences. Rather, it is the task of professors today to make a compelling case for a liberal arts education, to not only facilitate distribution requirements but to show us why we should care about the Elements of Rhetoric, the Matter in the Universe, and the Making of Modern South Asia...
...told the Faculty Council that “if invited, he would be delighted to be involved in our continuing work on the curriculum,” Faculty Council member and 300th Anniversary University Professor Laurel Thatcher Ulrich wrote in an e-mail...