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...took several years, however, for the grand treatise to be implemented at Harvard—in the form of Harvard’s first General Education program. But when it did make it into the course catalogs, its introductory lower-level courses excited many...
...summer 2007, Harris was appointed chair of the newly formed Standing Committee on General Education. Already chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and instructor of a popular Core course, Moral Reasoning 54: “If There is No God, All Is Permitted,” Harris had a significant stake in the trajectory of General Education. The Gen Ed committee is responsible for soliciting and approving prosposals for new courses and departmental alternatives. And, as chair of the committee, Harris was charged with translating the ideals of the final report into a workable curriculum...
...president who succeeded Eliot—Abbott Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877—moved away from Eliot’s elective system, instead requiring students to declare concentrations. In the search for order, Lowell turned to specialization—not general education...
...until World War II that Harvard established a general education curriculum. University President James B. Conant ’14 vested then-Dean of the Faculty Paul H. Buck with an epic task: to chair a committee that would reevaluate secondary and higher American education. The new initiative involved promoting and preserving democratic ideals. The resulting manifesto, the Red Book, not only proposed an answer for how to mold students into educated citizens, but also how to mold a more cohesive world community. Thousands of copies were disseminated across the United States, and the nation noticed...
...committee searches for new classes to incorporate into its program next year, professors worry that loopholes in the new curriculum’s structure may allow for specialized courses that deviate from the ideal of a general education. “The structure is the same, of course,” said Gross, “because institutions are comfortable with what they’re used...