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...Summers may have more than just his philosophical imprint on the report??€”his red-ink may lie between the report??€™s lines...
That this curricular review is not as dramatic as the last two, though, should not indict the whole process. Many, though not all, of the HCCR report??€™s recommendations are solid, if familiar, and deserve support for what they are—unexciting but generally necessary reforms. And there is much potential for improvement during the next year of discussion and debate...
...vaguely-defined senior-year endeavor that does not have to involve original and intensive academic research or writing—deserves scorn, too, for providing seniors with what would likely become an easy way out of doing real work. Finally, we question the value of the report??€™s recommendation to delay concentration declarations, which would eliminate often essential first-semester sophomore tutorials...
Many of the proposals to improve teaching are also good, including the suggestions to expand junior seminars, reduce section size from 18 to 15 and require professors to head concentration tutorials. The report??€™s perennial focus on increased student and faculty contact through smaller classes and an expanded Faculty, meanwhile, will hopefully give students the attention they deserve. Still, the recommendations to encourage better teaching fellows—which range from new awards for top-notch TFs to better TF training—will do little to change teaching quality because they do not insist on greater coursehead...
...College, who for the most part haven’t caught on to University Hall’s curricular review craze. Yet there remain a number of ways this whole undertaking could fail students—reforms that benefit administrators more than undergraduates might be pushed through or the report??€™s good suggestions could get even more watered down. Now that the initial recommendations are on paper, the College’s curricular reviewers must make sure the rest of the process serves students at the College before anyone else...