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...entire Review should follow Gen Ed’s lead. Faculty discontent suggests that the Review will ultimately fail to pass a Faculty vote, anyway. The process should begin over again with the goal of producing recommendations that really challenge or extend our notions of what an undergraduate education should...
...Gen Ed committee’s final draft was not publicly released after it was strongly criticized by the Faculty Council—the Faculty’s 18-member governing body—at a March 9 meeting. Council members killed the report because they said it lacked a sufficiently defined guiding philosophy...
...Gen Ed committee plans on releasing a report next fall, after further discussion and review of the suggestions made by the committees that have already reported, according to Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby...
When the review was launched in 2003, administrators had hoped that faculty would vote on the recommendations by this spring. But insufficient progress by the Gen Ed committee in particular and the fact that most Faculty meetings this semester focused on concerns over University President Lawrence H. Summers’ leadership rather than the review has pushed that timetable back...
...Summers said Monday that he has not attended any meetings of the Gen Ed committee this semester, and confirmed that he has ceased contribution to the review through all other means, both formal and informal...