Word: reformers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Criticism of post-graduate education has taken many forms, and clearly reflects the different conditions at Harvard's various schools. Notable examples of student discontent and active agitation for reform can be found at the Medical School, the School of Education, the Law School, the Graduate School of Design, and within the Department of Economics in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Each student reform group built its case on specific issues, but it also seems clear that Harvard graduate students share general concerns...
...practice in the real world, as well as the quality and method of the teaching itself. Secondly, they seek a closer and more significant relationship with the faculty. The desire for a collegial community of scholars, teaching and learning from each other, motivates many of the demands for reform. And finally, students assert that they should play a larger role in determining the educational and administrative policies of their schools...
These three general concerns focus on improving the process of postgraduate education. The actual reform movements of the past two years attest to the fact that students do have something worthwhile to say about this process...
...experiment was not continued this year and the impetus for student-directed innovation in the pre-clinical years seems to have died. Instead, a faculty committee has taken up the broader question of curriculum reform and has issued recommendations which could dramatically reshape the Medical School system...
...departments. Other faculty claim that the Medical School, as a professional school, should not attempt to offer the flexibility of an academic graduation education. The subcommittee report, if not delayed indefinitely, might emerge from the faculty in a watered-down form which would institute meaningless changes. Attempts at reform by small groups of students and faculty seem stifled by outspoken commitment to the status quo among their fellows...