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Ellison first spoke of a potential grant—and ruffled feathers in higher education??when he told The Wall Street Journal in 2001 that he was going to donate $150 million to either Harvard or Stanford...
...Cambridge. A postdoc offhandedly commented that a friend of hers, a graduate student from America, knew less chemistry than the typical British undergrad because American students spend so much time taking classes unrelated to their major. That mild complaint sums up the American “liberal arts education?? belief that a broad education is beneficial to the development of the student as a scholar and a citizen...
...Margolin says the rationale for grade deflation—that it will cause students to work harder and improve the quality of their education??is suspect...
Meeting every Tuesday from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. on the third floor of the Science Center, the 16 voting members of the Committee on General Education??and ex officio members including Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 and University President Lawrence H. Summers—had a heavy burden on their shoulders...
...committee moved away from a “one size fits all” stance on general education??requiring all students to follow a largely predetermined path—to a greater emphasis on choice. The extent and array of choices, however, remained a divisive topic as the report’s deadline approached...