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...websites recently created by Harvard students have inspired similar sites at other schools across the country, and each site has plans to expand in the fall...
Hughes said that thefacebook.com will expand to over 100 schools by the fall. He said that McGill University would likely be the first non-American school to join the network...
...plan—which has acquainted undergraduates more with rote memorization than critical thinking—the report recommends moving to less restrictive distribution requirements, allowing more departmental courses to count for general education credit. New classes known as Harvard College Courses would also “expand the horizons of both faculty and students” and “introduce bodies of knowledge, concepts and major texts.” For these classes to be effective, they must emphasize the world’s most essential texts and ideas—though we oppose a strict...
Many of the proposals to improve teaching are also good, including the suggestions to expand junior seminars, reduce section size from 18 to 15 and require professors to head concentration tutorials. The report’s perennial focus on increased student and faculty contact through smaller classes and an expanded Faculty, meanwhile, will hopefully give students the attention they deserve. Still, the recommendations to encourage better teaching fellows—which range from new awards for top-notch TFs to better TF training—will do little to change teaching quality because they do not insist on greater coursehead...
Thompson, who chaired the Allston life task force, said planners reached a consensus about the need to expand arts facilities...