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This year was devoted mostly to finding students and professors to serve on these committees and to initiating discussion of the major issues and themes that the committees will seek to examine.
Against the backdrop of World War II, then-University President James B. Conant ’14 appointed a group of professors to examine the role of “education in a free society,” with a specific focus on the way Harvard educates its undergraduates. That...
For example, the committee to examine concentrations, co-chaired by Professor of Economics Lawrence F. Katz and Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Diana Sorensen, will break down and debate the purpose and structure of the concentrations. Members will discuss such issues as joint concentrations, concentration requirements and the role...
The Pedagogy committee will examine ways of teaching. They will scrutinize what methods are effective in the undergraduate classroom, as well as more general questions about the learning process. The Pedagogy chairs are Jones Professor of American Studies Lizabeth Cohen and Cabot Professor of Biology Richard M. Losick.
And the job of looking at how it all comes together will fall to the Overall Academic Experience committee, which will examine the Harvard education as a whole and how it fits within the framework of life at the College, taking into account such concepts as the first year and...