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...Sciences.While the new “what it means to be a human being” requirement was debated at length at the Faculty meeting, the “Reason and Faith” requirement—which received national media attention after it was unveiled with the task force??s original preliminary report in October—seemed to die quietly.In its letter, the eight-member task force explained that “courses dealing with religion...can be readily accommodated in other categories.” For example, the Moral Reasoning category can encompass...
...Alison Simmons, the co-chair of the Gen Ed task force, wrote in an e-mail last night. “Our proposal is subject based rather than discipline based.” But at least one professor who spoke at yesterday’s meeting protested the task force??s decision to create a new system mirroring the Core’s structure. “One of the problems with the Core, and maybe one of the only ones, is that there are too many categories,” Susan R. Suleiman, the Dillon professor...
While the proposed requirement—unveiled with the task force??s report in October—generated nationwide headlines and heated on-campus debate, it died quietly today at a meeting of the full Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...chairs of the task force??Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language Louis Menand and Professor of Philosophy Alison Simmons, who are both members of the council—spoke with the council about progress the task force has made in reforming the report...
...task force will then be relieved of its job, and it will be up to the Faculty Council and interim Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles to “flesh out what the task force??s report means in terms of actual faculty legislation,” Mendelsohn said...