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...trust we place in faculty to develop innovative courses” and “the trust we place in students that they will choose wisely.” But for this curricular review to be successful, we must first place our trust in Harvard administrators to organize a framework in which the curriculum can flourish...
...details surrounding the Harvard College Courses, which have been proposed as alternatives in a framework of broader distributional requirements, are uncomfortably unclear. Instead of drawing on traditional introductory-level courses in the different disciplines, Harvard College Courses ought to combine substantive knowledge with the big academic questions in a compelling way that competes with—rather than dumbs down—departmental offerings. These new courses should attempt to provide students with intriguing and provocative interdisciplinary, issue-based and integrative courses that do not fit within existing departments. By doing so, they will allow students to gain insight into...
...doubt granted by allies to the U.S. in the waging wars where legal gray areas abound - from the detention of terror suspects at Guantanamo to the very invasion of Iraq in the first place. Coalition allies have suppressed their own disquiet when the U.S. has drifted outside of the framework of international law in pursuit of its war on terror, on the assumption that the U.S. can be trusted do the right thing...
...especially, and most unfortunately, for those currently engaged in the sort of international and interdisciplinary study the curricular review aspires to provide for every student. While the report provides commendable solutions for improvements within the existing departments, the College would do well to abandon plans to vastly alter the framework and content of concentrations from the outside...
...visas. Yet a balance must be found. Currently, the State Department has swung too far away (and in too disorganized a fashion) from welcoming visitors who are essential to America’s vitality, innovation and global leadership. Finding this appropriate balance is crucial, and continuing under the current framework will hurt national interests and compromise America’s future. The United States accrues enormous security benefits from the higher education community by leading the world in technological innovation. Current declines in foreign graduate school applicants will undermine the position of American universities as international forums for academic exchange...