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...issue the Redbook committee should address is the composition of the student body at the College and its implications for undergraduate education. In a friend-of-the-court brief written by the University for the DeFunis v. Odegaard case, which involved the constitutionality of a separate admissions process for minority students, Harvard emphasized the educational enrichment that can be achieved only through a diverse student body. The brief stated that a heterogeneous student body should become an educational goal in and of itself. The criteria for diversity mentioned were standard: academic interests, cultural orientation, geography, and personal philosophies. But even...
Even these criteria seem crazy in their effectiveness for achieving diversity among the student body. All other factors aside, how many undergraduates have passed their early adulthood? How many have done anything other than go to school for most of their lives? If the Redbook committee wants to break any new ground in enriching education through the composition of the student body, it should lend its weight to an extended concept of diversity, admitting people of all ages and of all walks of life to study at Harvard...
Harvard has given credit for fieldwork in the past, but only for either individual projects or for specialized courses in departments such as psychology. What the new Redbook committee might do is to establish the concept of fieldwork combined with academic work as a governing principle of education at Harvard, making it available to all on a wide range of subject matter. Next year, for the first time, General Education will offer a 100-level course in which fieldwork constitutes an important part of the instruction: "Education, Learning, and the Theories and Practice of Teaching" will combine readings and critical...
...House seminars have served to provide similar opportunities to students, although they are offered on a more limited basis than upper-level Gen Ed courses, they indicate strategies that the Redbook committee might consider. In next year's seminar on the "Problems of Bilingual People in an Urban Environment," the student's research will be based on his work as a volunteer in agencies such as schools and hospitals in a Boston bilingual community. The combination of fieldwork with rigorous academic inquiry offers a fruitful organizing principle for the Gen Ed program. It might infuse liberal education at Harvard with...
...which have normally occupied the Faculty's docket since the late '40s. The specific innovations, reforms and proposals of the past few years contain the germs of valuable educational ideals and principles that need to be nurtured and fully articulated in order to influence the work of the second "Redbook committee." Without student efforts even these piecemeal advances might have faltered. But next year's student body must begin to explore the general values and principles which underlie their specific complaints. Failing this they will have little clout in hammering out the next 20 years' educational consensus...