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...general education committee—which includes academic heavyweights like political philosopher Michael Sandel, English department star Louis Menand, and University President Larry Summers—wrestled with questions of pedagogical philosophy, Mahan’s thesis evolved into a sharp critique of Harvard’s undergraduate education...
...We’ve kind of reached the end of our road,” said General Education committee member Louis Menand, who is also the Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language. “I have heard nothing about another meeting...
...Menand suggested that the committee also may have left the report lacking some details in their desire to leave some specifics up to the Faculty...
...committee thought the best thing was to put a row of empty bottles up there and see how the faculty wanted to fill them,” said Menand...
What he has accomplished as president—the biggest expansion of low-income aid since the GI Bill, the Crimson Summer Academy to prepare disadvantaged high school students for college, the greatest investments in science and technology ever, recruiting extraordinary new faculty like Louis Menand and Steven Pinker, expanding study abroad, defending affirmative action, making ours a “Green Campus”—all of that is irrelevant to the one-third of professors (of one out of Harvard’s nine faculties) that voted to kick the bastard when he?...