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...campus with a painful history of anti-Semitism, most professors??including some of Lawrence H. Summers’ most vocal supporters—vigorously reject the charge that Summers’ faith had any connection to his downfall...
Former Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 agrees that the basic mission of undergraduate education must be geared toward educating students rather than satisfying professors?? teaching desires. “Our students are our basic reason for being in business at all,” he wrote in an op-ed in The Crimson in 2003. “Strangely, the curriculum is determined almost entirely by what faculty feel comfortable teaching rather than by what students want to learn...
...been done in the past (for example Literature and Arts B-11, “The Art of Film,”was previously Visual and Environmental Studies 170a). Under proposed General Education guidelines, the reverse will likely happen, as some current Core courses are absorbed into their professors?? departments. Instead of renaming courses twice, there should be a concerted effort, especially in the social sciences and the humanities, to certify additional departmental courses that meet a particular Core requirement while maintaining their departmental administration.Currently, for example, there is a single departmental course (Music...
...middle of sophomore year, have been on the brink of a vote since the beginning of the semester, but legislation has yet to be presented to the full Faculty. The recommendations were on the agenda of the Feb. 7 Faculty meeting, but the meeting was consumed by professors?? attacks on Summers’ leadership. Another Faculty meeting, scheduled for this past Tuesday, was cancelled the day after Summers’ Feb. 21 resignation to give professors “time to settle,” according to Weary Professor of German and Comparative Literature Judith L. Ryan. Kirby...
...institution,” Ryan added, “we haven’t in fact been able to articulate specifically what our objections were—and thus it gets reduced to some vague ‘discontent.’” Most of all, professors??even those who have been vocal in their criticism of Summers, including Classics Department Chair Richard F. Thomas—say that the Faculty should move past last month’s crisis despite stinging rebukes in the press. “To really respond would require going into...