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...this year of supposed commitment, of faculty leadership following the defenestration of former University President Lawrence H. Summers, the "omission" of one of the Faculty??s small number of meetings is disheartening. Last year, the Faculty was able to muster the courage and patience to meet 14 times, including a January meeting. But when meetings were scheduled for this year, the Faculty decided to revert—even with the daunting task of finalizing the curricular review before it—to its normal, nine-meeting schedule...
...Look, the issue with Summers is that Harvard was run from 1636 to 2000 by the faculty??and he was trying to wrest some of that away,” he adds...
...they should teach their classes within a department instead. Professors will not be able to simply add a final exam in order to join general education; they will have to tailor their courses to adhere to a new philosophy of contemporary relevance to a normal citizen. But the Faculty??s most recent discussions, and last week’s alterations to the Preliminary Report by the Task Force on General Education, show an increasing disregard for the guiding philosophy of the new “Core” and an undue focus on how many literature requirements students...
...Tuesday’s meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), the Committee on Graduate Education’s (CGE) legislation to mandate evaluations of all Teaching Fellows (TFs) passed without a whisper of holding the Faculty to the same standard. While the Faculty??s desire to focus the meeting on curricular reform is understandable, it is utterly dismaying that a quick, easy consensus could not be reached on asking professors to be held accountable in the same way TFs will...
...that the General Education task force has lost its faith in religion, the long-anticipated Gen Ed overhaul looks more like the Core than it has at any point during the four-year-long curricular review. The Faculty??s challenge, if and when the proposed curriculum is implemented, will be to recast the generation-old and much-maligned Core into a system with a radically different mission but an uncannily similar structure and nomenclature. The task force that crafted the proposal distributed a letter before yesterday’s Faculty meeting saying it was eliminating...