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...proposal, but even more so from its unfortunate focus on life after Harvard. Just because relatively few Harvard students go on to graduate school and careers in academia does not mean that we should celebrate the tendency or adjust a Harvard education to fit such expectations. Despite the proposal??s protestations to the contrary, this is another step along the disturbing path toward reducing Harvard’s liberal arts education to a pre-professional education and thus transforming Harvard’s undergraduates from scholars into consumers. A Harvard College education is an invaluable and irretrievable opportunity...
...vocational training. But I have one qualm: The committee on General Education tends to veer towards anarchy instead of rigor. Yet rigor is precisely what we need. Although freedom is always a popular idea, it is not the best suited in our case. And however brilliant, our latest proposal??the Task Force’s Preliminary Report—might not be either. Both of them—just like the current Core—fail to see that as students, we come here to learn. Any desire for instruction is an acknowledgment of ignorance. We are thus...
...several professors say the proposal??s thematic focus on “citizenship”—a word used seven times in the report—is too narrow...
...said the long-awaited overhaul of the Core Curriculum—given fresh momentum earlier this month by the release of a new general education proposal??should be the Faculty’s top priority...
...continue to attract the kind of faculty and students we want at a time when all major engineering schools in the country are expanding their programs,” Venky, the Armstrong professor of engineering and applied sciences, told a meeting of the FAS last week. Under the proposal??more than four years in the making—the school’s full-time faculty will expand by approximately 30 positions—through joint appointments with other graduate schools and FAS positions—to bring the total faculty size to 100. By contrast, CalTech...