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...class, approved last winter by the school's faculty, represents a departure from the administration's previous efforts to integrate ethics throughout the first-year curriculum. In fact, following the school's receipt of a $30 million grant for the teaching of ethics in 1987, B-School officials said repeatedly that there would be no required course...
...fact, it appears that only after the announcement of the Shad grant did the B-School begin to display concern about retaining its ethics specialists. Shortly before announcement of the gift, the school advised its only junior ethicist, Associate Professor of Business Administration Kenneth E. Goodpaster, not to pursue tenure. B-School sources then said Goodpaster was told that if he sought tenure, he would be denied...
...poll's findings indicate students gave Clark mixed reviews. But in fact, Clark's receptiveness to the survey results is so far the most visible response to the student activism...
...review showed the faculty considering only one significant change--a strengthening of the Core's Quantitative Reasoning Requirement (QRR). Otherwise, the faculty concerned itself not with academic policy, but rather with the mechanics of the Core. In fact, the overriding issue presented by most of the seven sub-areas of the Core was finding enough professors and teaching fellows to staff the courses...
...example, the Moral Reasoning component of the Core faces a particularly severe shortage of courses, largely because its definition is interdisciplinary and requires innovation from standard departmental courses. In fact, the subcommittee report says that when courses, such as the ever-popular Moral Reasoning 22, "Justice," need to be replaced, the Core area will face difficulty in finding adequate substitutes...