Word: generality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Periodically fashion and education grow nostalgic, and try to return to the way things were in the good old days. Harvard's new Core Curriculum, for example, harkens back to the narrower educational requirements of the early 1900s. The Core is part of a current national trend toward revising general education curricula, usually by tightening requirements and clarifying academic goals. But despite the impression fostered by the national media, Harvard's own administrators point out that the Core is neither the first nor the most radical educational reform of its kind. Many other institutions have almost simultaneously opted for programs...
Most experts agree that the current national flurry of general education reforms marks a swing of the pendulum back to the way curricula were before '60's campus activists forced many university administrations to abolish or loosen course requirements. Now that campuses are quiet again, faculties are starting to regret their loss of control over students' educations. Many of the reasons cited for curricular reforms sound like the same ones the fathers of general education offered in the early 1900s at places like Columbia, the University of Chicago, and Harvard. The speeches are so much alike they prompted critic Alston...
Edward F. Powers, associate general counsel for employee relations, could not be reached for comment late last night...
...appointment was announced at a special meeting of the general faculty of the School of Public Health. Blout, who left for Washington, D.C., was not available for comment...
...budget of approximately $12,000 funded by a $5 charge on all undergraduate women's term bills. "What the legislature does with it largely determines what the group does in general," Jennifer R. Levin '80, president of RUS, said yesterday...