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...proposed making 12th grade optional in order to save the state around $60 million. Although we understand the magnitude of the financial pressures confronting Utah and other states, making the final year of high school nonobligatory sends the wrong message. It further devalues schooling in an age when public opinion has come to doubt the value of education qua education. Despite the necessity of budget cuts in a time of fiscal difficulty, the field of education should be protected at all costs...
Since then the program, commonly known as “Expos,” has expanded to cover different subject areas, such as nature writing or poetry analysis, as well as higher level courses such as a public speaking practicum. Twenty-five years ago, the Faculty approved another expos course to supplement its standard one-term requirement in order to assist “freshman with severe writing problems,” a 1985 Crimson article reported...
...Faculty meeting on March 2, professors went public with their angst about the centralized priorities...
Indeed, the public concern opened a two-way debate, even among center affiliates. Government Professor Daniel Carpenter, director of the Center for American Political Studies, said at the time that his center’s priorities—largely focused on student research funding—were aligned with FAS priorities...
Earlier this month, Faust appointed Harvard School of Public Health Professor Sue J. Goldie to head the new Harvard Institute for Global Health, a University-wide institute that Faust hopes will spearhead a discipline that she has called a top priority...