Word: pathways
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...creation of New Pathway--a radically new educational program emphasizing clinical studies--and a new core requirement in social medicine, both introduced with the class of 1989, have been steps in that direction...
Traditionally, the collective energies that universities devote to education have gone first to reviewing the curriculum. Harvard is no exception to the rule. Within the past few years, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences has produced its Core Curriculum, the Medical School has developed a New Pathway, the Divinity School has revamped its curriculum for preparing ministers, and other faculties have reviewed and improved important parts of their teaching program...
...connected with the New Pathway program are willing to predict that the future will be without problems. In fact, some have already raised concerns that were not anticipated during the program's planning. Among them: the nature of the program has made it tougher for the 24 Pathway students to feel as if they are part of the Class of 1989, which has some 140 additional members...
Another problem considered potentially serious is the prospect that the Pathway students will be perceived by others at the school as the faculty's favorites, or otherwise more special than the program's planners had intended...
...Harvard weren't considering making the New Pathway the regular pathway at the Medical School, Goodenough said, "we wouldn't be doing...