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...yelled at us,” Menand said. “He felt that we could do better, and this was not up to Harvard’s standards...
With that goal in mind, the new Task Force—co-chaired by Menand and Simmons—produced a piece of legislation that met Bok’s expectations. After releasing their initial report in October 2006, they visited departments to discuss the proposal and then released a revised report in February 2007 to be reviewed by the full Faculty...
...It’s a herding cats kind of operation in FAS,” Menand said. “The Faculty is filled with people who are accustomed to doing their own thing...
According to Menand, he and the rest of the Task Force decided to withdraw from the discussion at that point, since they wanted the Faculty to feel as though the curriculum was theirs...
Since Bok had decided to take on the presidency for a second time without being paid, and he himself had overseen the creation of the Core Curriculum, his determination to finish the curricular review was “this sort of heroic thing,” according to Menand...