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...Faculty grew a lot in the last five years, so I presume they’ll let it shrink a bit,” said English professor Louis Menand. “Faculty salaries can be a quite big chunk of the budget...
English Professor Louis Menand and Philosophy Professor Alison Simmons—the two co-chairs of the Task Force on General Education, which wrote the legislation for the new curriculum to be launched this fall—said that they are concerned that the eight-category requirement may constrain students’ schedules, especially those who will also be pursuing secondary fields...
...Menand said he is hopeful that two Gen Ed classes will count double for students’ concentrations in most cases, a stipulation that would give students more leeway than the seven-requirement Core...
...original proposal that Menand and Simmons’ task force submitted to the Faculty in October had seven categories—the same number that the Core currently contains. By February, it had grown to eight...
...After Menand and Simmons submitted their report to the Faculty for discussion in February, they and the rest of the task force decided not to speak at Faculty meetings until the final Gen Ed vote in May. They said wanted to let the Faculty finish shaping the curriculum and feel as though it was their...