Word: curriculums
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...years as president, I felt that I had paid my dues,” Bok writes. “I have had nothing to do with these issues since.”WE DON’T NEED NO (GENERAL) EDUCATIONIn 1978, Bok likened the task of reforming the curriculum to that of “moving a cemetery.” Summers would be hard-pressed to disagree with that.Bok, who oversaw the appointment of Core founding father and former Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky, again faces the specter of curricular reform three decades after his first...
...deliberate style had already soothed the waters. Although he may not have done it fast enough for our impatient tastes, he eventually got the university on the right side of the divestiture issue (embracing the “Sullivan principles”), undergraduate education (rolling out the Core Curriculum), and affirmative action (on which he later co-authored a wise and supportive book, “The Shape of the River”). He tripled the endowment, built the Kennedy School, and made Harvard more international than ever, in complexion and outlook. And by cutting such an inoffensive, middle...
...address).And if undergraduate issues are indeed a priority to Harvard, then we, Harvard’s undergraduates, must put the rare opportunity presented by the Harvard College Curricular Review before politics. Historically, this sort of opportunity has presented itself once every three decades. Our chance to restructure the curriculum comes once every 30 years regardless of who the president is, regardless of who the dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science is, and regardless of which bodies of the University are cooperating. No power vacuum, no matter how large, need stall the reforms of this curricular review (already...
...broker; to students, he is an accessible celebrity. After all, this is a man who visits the Houses, dances to hip hop at first-year social events, and fools around on the sidelines of home football games. More substantively, he has launched a long overdue review of the undergraduate curriculum, taught popular courses each year, implemented a far-reaching financial aid initiative, and expanded study abroad opportunities. In many ways, Summers is their president. I have to remind myself that most current Harvard undergraduates are too young to even remember Cornel West. If there is one lesson to be learned...
...engaging undergraduates in conversation—publicly and privately—in an effort to restore their confidence in us as educators who are fully committed to Harvard’s long-term health. We must demonstrate our desire to work closely with students to reform the undergraduate curriculum, and we must devote ourselves more assiduously than ever to good teaching and advising. Together, we must work to make Harvard the institution it can and should be—a place of higher learning where critical debate coincides with mutual respect, where moral values triumph over market values, and where...