Word: gen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...instead of undertaking a narrow evaluation of Gen Ed, Pipkin says, the committee should look at the philosophy underlying Harvard education: "The real complaint that people have is that we're not clear where we're going or what we're educating people for. One answer to that was the General Education program--that was the old model, and the thing is that it has to be examined in 1974 to see whether it still makes sense...
With the advent of the Nixon administration, attacks on OEO-funded attorneys took on more threatening forms. In 1970 Assistant Atty. Gen. William Ruckelshaus accused legal services lawyers of filing "politically motivated" lawsuits aimed at embarrassing the Nixon administration. He charged that some of the agencies were using the courts "as a method for confrontation" with the establishment...
...Argentine worker, whom the makers of The Traitors are addressing, Barrera's story is sufficient in itself to make him recognize how miserably workers can be exploited by his supposed leaders. It is a common knowledge in Argentina that, beginning with the rule of Gen. Juan D. Peron in 1945, when workers received a wide array of economic and social benefits, trade unions became increasingly conservative until they were virtually at the beck and call of the government. Throughout the spectacularly popular decade of Peron's regime, and throughout the military rule that followed, Argentine workers lost their autonomous leaders...
...General Education system set up by President Conant about 1950, contrary to some facile assumptions, has made very few echoes in the curricula of other universities. This renders the Harvard experience that much more distinctive, however, and connects its evaluation that much more closely with that of Gen Ed. The program is hard to duplicate largely because it is hard to find faculty talented enough to sweep over broad interdisciplinary areas of thought all by themselves; even within single disciplines many faculty prefer to cop out of teaching introductory courses, and avoid the challenge of comprehensive generalization...
...last time that happened, with the University Committee on the Objectives of General Education in a Free Society, it shaped the Harvard education for 30 years. The committee produced a report known as the Redbook that led to the present Gen Ed program and course requirements, and generally changed the face of American college education...