Word: internationalizationã
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...students to get course credit and money to travel to 13 additional countries, and they bring the College to the head of the line amongst peer institutions. By expanding the range of international experiences available to undergrads, the College has laid the groundwork for a true “internationalization?? of its curriculum. Director of the Office of International Programs Jane Edwards, the University’s General Counsel, and the nine-member committee responsible for evaluating the travel policy deserve special praise. Also, the students, faculty, and staff who signed an online petition calling for a review...
Indeed, the curricular review’s theme of “internationalization?? is in part a call for more of this kind of fluffy treatment of foreign cultures, sanitized through a Western “pluralistic” lens so that nobody’s feelings get hurt. Meanwhile, students who do not hew a narrow ideological line will suffer in the classroom. Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield ’53 described Harvard professors to the Boston Globe: “Everybody is a liberal and shows it. They conduct classes in such...
...Faculty William C. Kirby, which merely outlined in superficial terms some of the questions that face the curricular review—including the obvious and uninspired (“communities of learning,” “student research”) and the vague (“internationalization??)—and the task forces that had been established—again, ranging from the minor (“timing of the concentration choice”) to the mindless (“wireless technology?...
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