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...Without regard for Santayana’s oft-quoted maxim, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) recently concluded that Harvard’s new General Education program will not require the study of history. The Faculty??s definitive exclusion of history should arrive as no small shock, given the values articulated in the preliminary report of the Task Force on General Education...
...Faculty??s reticence to accord history its own place within the general education hierarchy raises grave concerns not only about the sincerity of the General Education program’s original goals—which, so it would seem, necessitate some historical literacy—but more importantly about the legitimacy of those goals themselves. The Task Force’s preliminary report emphasized the importance and inherent value of so-called “liberal learning,” defined as the “free inquiry undertaken without concern for topical relevance or vocational utility?...
...From such a perspective, the Faculty??s hostility toward history should not surprise us. History, like true liberal education, is not instrumental. The study of history demonstrates its value not, as certain academic schools once assumed, through scientific analyses of past events in order to yield guides for the future...
...Harvard, “every tub is on its own bottom,” or so the old saying goes. This means that each faculty??or “tub”—is largely independent of the central administration, setting its own policies, granting its own degrees, and, most importantly, setting its own budget. The power of the purse is largely invested in one person and one person alone: the dean of the Faculty...
...American Studies. “We have to take account in general education that the whole world doesn’t speak English.” The Crimson did not obtain copies of all the finalized amendments themselves. 300th Anniversary University Professor Laurel T. Ulrich, a member of the Faculty??s 19-member governing body, said the amendments mostly deal with a “clarification of categories.” She added that many were drafted by groups of professors spanning different departments, citing two amendments proposed by the Caucus of Chairs, an informal group of about...