Word: gen
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...subcommittees Dean Rosovsky appointed last year have created a plan that would adversely, if indirectly, affect America's higher education system. In considering this important step, both faculty and students should bear in mind the considerable weight Harvard carries in social and academic circles, and tread carefully. While the Gen Ed system certainly merits revamping, the current Core proposal is not the answer...
...students and Faculty members believed only five new areas of general education would be established, to replace the three existing areas. However, the Core report recommends a much more rigid program with ten specific areas in all. This is unacceptable: although we recognize the inevitability of some type of Gen Ed revisions, ten areas constitute an unnecessarily excessive infringement on students' freedom of choice. Indeed, most members of the Harvard community were prepared to accept the verdict of the Faculty subcommittees. In light of the unexpectedly stringent requirements, however, many must now reconsider whether or not the Faculty is going...
...ISSUE that needs clarification is the question of how many core courses the University will offer, and the corollary of this question--will the core courses invariably be large, impersonal lecture courses? So far, no one involved with the overhauling of Gen Ed will volunteer a specific response. Members of the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) said last week that during a closed meeting with the designers of the new core curriculum they inferred that about 30 core courses, each with an enrollment of approximately 200 students, would be created--a contention several authors of the core's report immediately...
...Gen Ed reform proposals that were the basis of the report released this week drew sharp criticism last year, although they were much less restrictive than the reforms set forth in the new core report; now a new wave of criticism is apparently in the offing...
...proposal, which has not yet been released to the press or to the full Faculty, would apparently require each student to take a total of eight Gen Ed courses, although it provides for exemptions from certain areas...