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Beginning next semester, English professor Louis Menand, one of the architects of the new General Education curriculum, will be teaching two courses for the program he helped design...
...incoherent education. To hasten the development of Gen Ed, incoming Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds must refocus Gen Ed around a meaningful educational philosophy. In their preliminary report a year and a half ago, the chairs of the Task Force on General Education, English professor Louis Menand and philosophy professor Allison Simmons, presented a brand of liberal education that sought to prepare students to engage with an increasingly globalized and multicultural world. It was more than just a revamped Core curriculum; Gen Ed was meant to be a forerunner in 21st century American higher education...
...higher education has expanded across the board, the popularity of the liberal arts—which has no direct professional application, save in academia—has decreased, particularly since so many undergraduates seek lucrative jobs in finance, law, and medicine. According to English professor Louis Menand, who co-chaired the task force to redesign Harvard’s general education requirements, this trend of decreasing interest in non-applied fields is not new. “The percentage of bachelor’s degrees in the liberal arts against all bachelor’s degrees that are given every...
...This view of schooling is echoed by Menand: “Liberal arts are fields where inquiry is pursued disinterestedly, which means that it’s knowledge for its own sake,” he says. He notes that over the past half century, only about a tenth of Harvard graduates go on to earn Ph.D.s, while 60 percent go into business, law, or medicine...
...seems like an ingenious solution,” English professor Louis Menand wrote in an e-mail today. Menand has authored a Pulitzer Prize-winning book on late 19th-century American intellectuals. “But I think we’re meant [by James] to project our own idea onto that deliberate opacity...