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Responsibility for designing and administering General Education offerings would be split between the Committee on General Education and House Committees on Educational Policy. On a University-wide level, the Gen. Ed. Committee would be responsible for establishing General Education courses that are listed in the catalogue of Courses of Instruction. The large Gen. Ed. course are among the best in the University, and the end of the General Education requirement would not mean the end of the program or of the Committee's work...
...gravely concerned that the budgetary axe is threatening the Gen. Ed. program at this time and in the immediate future. We believe that one of the primary and urgent responsibilities of Harvard's next president should be to secure an endowment expressly for the General Education program at about $10 million. This sum would ensure close to an additional $800,000 yearly for the Committee's operating budget, bringing its total resources to about $1.7 million annually. Approximately $1 million could fund the large courses that are interdisciplinary in nature or taught by professors outside Arts and Sciences...
...would like to see each professional school represented in the Gen. Ed. program by at least one course similar to Soc. Sci. 137, Soc. Sci 150, and Hum. 11 and 14. Through this commitment by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the increased opportunities for cross-registration recommended above, Harvard would acknowledge that a "liberal education" need not preclude an exposure to the traditionally "professional" disciplines...
Active group projects in the creative arts, under the direction of qualified instructors from inside and outside the University, should also be based in the Houses and should receive Gen. Ed. funds and degree credit. Diversity and experimentation should characterize the form, as well as the content, of these House courses. Team teaching should be encouraged, especially in interdisciplinary courses. Instructors could teach jointly throughout the term or successively for several weeks each. Group research projects and workshops could also be started, along the lines of some of the Freshman Seminars and Applied Physics...
...carnival days, the sideshow freaks, are still present. Hear the saw-throated barker cry of the Headless Body Beautiful: "Yessir, folks, step right up and see Lola, the living, decapitated victim of a hideous automobile accident!" There is the Frog Boy, and Giant Hong Kong Rats, and a "gen-ewe-ine female cannibal," ominously billed as Zoma the Depraved. And, of course, there is the terrible, eternal Alligator Lady: "She walks, she talks, she crawls on her belly like a reptile, a leapin', screamin', creepin', crawlin' mawnster! She's eleven feet lawng...