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...world, professors only seemed to care that their parochial corner of academia be included, leaving Harvard with an uninspired retread of the Core Curriculum. It will be up to Smith and Wolfson Professor of Jewish Studies Jay M. Harris, who will lead the General Education committee which is to implement the Review’s findings, to breathe life and coherence into the new curriculum.Furthermore, the Faculty repeatedly balked at making teaching evaluations mandatory for all courses. Far from creating a “Harvard version of RateMyProfessor.com,” as one professor claimed at a Faculty meeting, evaluations...
...president, Faust will grapple with the leftover ambitions of her predecessors. She will have to resuscitate the planning of a capital campaign that was shelved during the tenure of Lawrence H. Summers, gain approval of the draft of the Allston master plan filed last winter, and implement the general education report approved this spring...
...Fortunately, as with the guidance of science, a wise person who recognizes and values deep and innovative thinking can make fair decisions in all aspects of the University. Given Harvard’s visibility, Faust’s ability to implement visionary reforms will benefit not only students and faculty in the Harvard community, but will also seed positive change in the world at large...
...administrative life of the Faculty as well, suggesting yesterday that the divisional deans—who oversee the main areas of study—should be given more authority. “We should be allowing the divisional deans to have the power that they need to implement within their areas what’s best for those individual areas,” he said.DINING WITH DREWLike Knowles—who served on the board of Corning, Inc. until early this year—Smith has strong ties to private industry. Before teaching, he worked for three years at Honeywell...
...David R. Pilbeam announced in a letter sent to professors late Wednesday afternoon. The popular master of Cabot House has been an active participant in discussions surrounding the curricular review since its inception. Under Harris’s leadership, the standing committee will be responsible for determining how to implement the University’s first new program of general education in a generation. “As many faculty members have said, so much depends on administration and implementation,” Harris said on Sunday. “I think there are tremendous opportunities. There are any number...