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...critical details, the draft legislation has passed the buck to a new committee, the decisions of which could very well leave students with another lackluster and dispiriting general education system.One of the most prominent—and in our view the most important—features of the Task Force??s report was allowing well-qualified students to break out of the straightjacket imposed by the Core by substituting departmental classes for Core requirements. In place of the Core’s often absurd criteria for classes—for instance, it requires a final exam?...
When I reflect on the Core classes that dot my transcript, the problem as I see it had little to do with what I was learning, and everything to do with how it was taught, an error of method, not of content. In this light, the Task Force??s report seems too erudite and abstract for the dilemma at hand, like trying to fix a broken down car with a new theory of locomotion. The proposed shift from “ways of knowing” to “real-world context” will do little...
HDAG is targeting Schlumberger for divestment because of the company’s ties to the Sudanese oil industry. According to a report by the Sudan Divestment Task Force??a national activist group that HDAG is a member of—Schlumberger has increased the number of oil rigs it has in Sudan by 400% since the start of the genocide...
...Former Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 is, of course, the most notable example. His book last year, “Excellence Without a Soul,” so fiercely attacked the proposed general-education requirements that the task force??s final report was obliged to note his “forceful (and, we hope, premature) critique...
...discussion with the Faculty Council was the importance that teaching and learning go hand in hand,” Biewener said. Faculty members also expressed concern about implementing some of the report’s recommendations.Thomas F. Kelly, Knafel professor of music, said he feared that the task force??s ideas might simply remain “a very handsome report that we will remember for a great many years.”Statistics Department Chair Xiao-Li Meng, another of the report’s authors, said he was optimistic.“We need...