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There are several errors of fact in the editorial series relating to General Education this week. The most serious of them is the assumption that the Gen Ed program will launch in four months, and that the class of 2012 will have to decide between the new Program and the Core when they arrive. This is incorrect. The new Gen Ed program will launch in September 2009, with a small number of courses available next year. Students in the Class of 2012 will enter under the Core requirements, and have the opportunity to switch, should they wish to, beginning...
...class of 2012 would have to fulfill the requirements of the Core, with no exceptions, would have been the simplest thing we could have done. But we did not believe that would be the best way to serve students, and so we embarked on an ambitious plan to get Gen Ed courses available to students—in a kind of “preview” mode for the program—in 08-09. Before the year is out, we should have about 15 new or significantly revised courses on the General Education menu, developed or revised specifically...
...General Education Standing Committee approved 13 classes at its meeting last Thursday, bringing the total of courses approved for the new Gen Ed curriculum to 39. Among the new inductees is the popular Moral Reasoning 22: “Justice,” taught by Government professor Michael J. Sandel. Routinely one of the largest courses at the College, “Justice” received approval as part of the new “Ethical Reasoning” course category. The once-empty “Science of the Physical Universe” category now contains one class: Science...
...induction into club whose ranks have begun to swell with people nominated purely for their celebrity rather than any loftier merits. That list grew further, Thursday, when President Nicolas Sarkozy conferred the title on Canadian singer Céline Dion, welcoming her into the company of Alexis de Tocqueville, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Gustave Flaubert, Alexander Graham Bell and Albert Dreyfus - and also Jerry Lewis. Not surprisingly, some observers suggest that the contrast in achievements of its various honorees has cheapened the medal to the point of self-parody...
Listening to the questions asked of Gen. David Petraeus in the Senate Thursday, you might think the U.S. was headed for a new war in the Gulf. Senators from both sides of the aisle spent as much time asking him about Iran as they did about Iraq and Afghanistan. Sen. Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut grilled Petraeus on Iran's anti-U.S. activities in the region. Sen. Daniel Akaka of Hawaii plaintively asked about the utility of negotiations with Iran. And Sen. Jim Webb of Virginia pressed Petraeus on what he meant by the need to "counter malign Iranian influence...