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...Although the Task Force??s initial report underwent several structural permutations—such as the excision of a “Reason and Faith” requirement—its ostensible raison d’être of preparing undergraduates for global citizenship remained, in spirit at least, largely intact. Yet Harvard’s attempts to generally educate its students, despite the apparently hollow platitudes about the importance of understanding traditions and historically-developed ideas, will not include any mandatory study of the past...
Residents criticized the task force??s chair for supporting Harvard’s plan to build a science complex whose height would exceed the guidelines set by the North Allston Neighborhood Strategic Plan, a 2004 scheme set out by Harvard and the Boston Redevelopment Authority...
While these fears are understandable, they are also misplaced. Critics’ primary objections to activity-based learning stem from the particular vision outlined in the Task Force??s report—a vision that does not reflect the best that activity-based learning has to offer. Well-developed activity-based courses can create potent synergies between real-world experiences and academic exploration, an alchemy that need not intrude on students’ other extracurricular commitments. Such classes stand to significantly enrich undergraduates’ learning experiences, and deserve serious consideration from Harvard’s students...
...courses. Furthermore, we students should approach the idea of synthesizing classroom learning and “real-world” experience with open minds. Many of us who have taken the plunge into activity-based classes are eager for more. We hope the faculty will act on the Task Force??s proposal in tomorrow’s faculty meeting and form a committee to investigate a pedagogical initiative in activity-based learning, one that does not simply piggyback off Harvard’s extracurriculars but engages activity outside the classroom to create a truly educational experience...
...Faculty-wide accomplishments have been equally impressive. She chaired the Task Force on Teaching and Career Development, which called on teaching to be given “major and equal weight” as research in deciding professorial salaries. Effecting her and her task force??s recommendations will be critically important in the face of many professors’ tendency to devote scant attention to pedagogy in favor of research, writing, and publication. Though scholarship is no doubt vital to any modern research university, it cannot function as such without quality instruction from devoted researchers. Still other achievements...