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...report of the Educational Policy Committee (EPC), which recommended delaying concentration choice by a semester and allowing students to study a “secondary field” in addition to their primary concentration, will be discussed first, the letter said. In an e-mail to The Crimson on Friday, Kirby wrote that he hopes to hold a vote on the EPC recommendations in the first half of the spring semester...
...planets remain in alignment” after these discussions, Kirby wrote in his letter to the Faculty, the January Term Committee’s report will be discussed this coming semester...
...Aside from briefly summarizing the eight curricular review reports, Kirby’s five-page letter touched on several broad themes in the review: the desire to “re-commit our Faculty to the central task of educating undergraduates,” a focus on “resisting pressures for early specialization and professionalization,” and a need for a “curriculum of choice, incentive, and opportunity...
...letter to the Faculty, Kirby insisted that this review was about improving education, not making big news...
...history of our curricular reforms in the past century shows that Harvard has been better at making large curricular statements than it has been in improving the teaching of its undergraduates,” Kirby wrote in the letter. “We should be pleased for this Faculty to engage in a firm defense of the ideals of a liberal education—vulnerable here as anywhere—but only if, in the same moment, we really improve what we do here...