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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some advanced standing students make "a premature decision to enter a department, not because they are already committed to the field of study, but because the line around Harvard has always been, 'take advanced standing. You'll get a break in Gen Ed,'" Davis said...
Many current Gen Ed courses that do not fit into the Core and do not become departmental courses will be in a new group of "non-departmental" courses. During the transition period, these courses and Core courses will be assigned to one of the three Gen Ed course areas for students who must still fulfill all or part of Gen...
...Stanford professors have had to water down their advanced courses to explain material they used to be able to assume students understood." David Riesman, Ford Professor of Social Sciences, adds that a common intellectual experience enables students to learn more from each other. Under Gen Ed, he says, "the chance is minimal that you will be taking a course that one of your roommates is taking so you can talk about it together...
Unlike most schools, Harvard has long kept its general education courses separate from its interdepartmental offerings, thereby avoiding many interdepartmental squabbles. Others do not have the resources to develop a completely separate set of courses for gen ed. But even Harvard has not completely escaped the problem of academic politics, which complicates general education reform. Atlantic Monthly says departmental power struggles and the ensuing need for compromises between competing interests ensures that no single, clear vision of educational priorities guides faculties. "Somewhere in the profusion of competing interests, the goal of the pursuit of knowledge was submerged," says Alston Chase...
...former diplomat to put teeth into a Justice Department with a sometime questionable commitment to ferreting out the truth. Last August the Justice Department concluded a 22-month investigation of the assasination with indictments of four anti-Castro Cubans and the three Chilean agents of the now defunct DINA, Gen. Juan Manuel Contreras Sepulveda, former head of the DINA, Pedro Espinoza Bravo and Armando Fernandez Larios...