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Chair of the General Education Standing Committee Jay M. Harris presented an update on curricular reform at yesterday’s meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), highlighting a new strategy for course development that will use graduate seminars as vehicles for planning future undergraduate courses...
...Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Michael D. Smith recently confirmed that, at least next year, the number of course options to count toward General Education will be extremely limited. In the beginning, at least, it appears that the faculty can offer undergraduates no guarantees as to how many courses will count towards either requirement and when those courses will be offered in coming years...
...Susan W. Lewis, director of the Core program, confirmed that a climate of uncertainty prevailed for her office: “We’re working on next week and next month, as is every other department in FAS.” This sort of insecurity might trail after any period of flux, but it must be accompanied by a resolute show of good faith in the system to which we are transitioning. If current underclassmen and incoming freshmen are to be confronted with an unstable curricular landscape at large, then the College should at least maximize the number...
Come September, students will no longer arrive on campus to a slew of fresh-faced faculty members. Instead, the same professors with the same interests will stand up to present much the same material as the year before. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) can expect a “pause” in faculty hiring during the 2008-2009 academic year, according to FAS Dean Michael D. Smith, who recently proposed the measure. While University Hall’s desire to maintain a manageable faculty size in the face of administrative and programmatic changes is completely understandable, this...
Kosslyn, who did not respond to requests for comment yesterday, joined FAS as an associate professor in 1977, and after brief stints at Brandeis University and Johns Hopkins University in the early eighties, he became part of the Faculty for good...