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...ED MCMAHON struggles to avoid foreclosure on his L.A. home. Where's Publishers Clearing House when you need...
...Hope may lie in the new Gen Ed program, whose requirements recognize that “empirical reasoning is not a discrete body of knowledge” but “a set of related conceptual skills that guide valid reasoning and decision-making...
...Opening up the Core and Gen Ed requirements and extending the deadline for making the pass/fail versus letter-grading choice will lower the invisible barrier many students place in front of venturing outside their academic comfort zones. There is no substitute for students’ willingness to embrace the challenges and risks of exploring new fields, but there is also no reason Harvard should not have academic policies that encourage...
...Harvard education, it is argued, is its commitment to a liberal arts curriculum—one that is not wedded to preprofessional or vocational utility, but the development of the well-rounded individual. In the words of the Final Report of the Task Force on General Education (Gen Ed), a liberal arts education aims to “unsettle presumptions, to defamiliarize the familiar, to reveal what is going on beneath and behind appearances, to disorient young people and to help them find ways to reorient themselves.” To that end, the new program in General Education seeks...
...Until the Faculty really adopts such an initiative, however, our optimism must be tempered. The reported inertia and apathy in new course development may yet condemn students to recast versions of the hollow Cores. As of yet, no new courses have been created under this Gen Ed category. Of existing courses approved to count for credit, only one, Mathematics 154: Probability Theory (which even Gen Ed Committee chair Jay R. Harris admits most students are never going to take), is not a hold-over from the Core...