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...promised to release their final report this month. “The comments will certainly be helpful to the task force as we prepare the final version of our report,” task force co-chair and Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language Louis Menand wrote in an e-mail yesterday. —Staff writer Lois E. Beckett can be reached at lbeckett@fas.harvard.edu...
...spirit of pragmatism and anti-intellectualism. The Task Force’s underlying rationale for general education can be summed up in three words: real-world citizenship. Perhaps reflecting the pragmatic worldview of the task force co-chair and Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language Louis Menand, they have taken the focus off of academics and directed it instead towards real-life application and civic duty...
...Prof. Louis Menand could be any Cold War figure, he’d like to be one of the French New Wave film directors. (“Hey, Prof. Louis Menand...
...chairs of the task force—Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language Louis Menand and Professor of Philosophy Alison Simmons, who are both members of the council—spoke with the council about progress the task force has made in reforming the report...
...Menand and Simmons are expected to send a letter to the Faculty before next week’s meeting. The letter will include an update on the progress that the task force has made and will mention changes that have been suggested, according to Professor of the History of Science Everett I. Mendelsohn, a council member...