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When the first sketchy outlines of what has become a very intricate set of proposals came to light last year, most students and Faculty members believed only five new areas of general education would be established, to replace the three existing areas. However, the Core report recommends a much more rigid program with ten specific areas in all. This is unacceptable: although we recognize the inevitability of some type of Gen Ed revisions, ten areas constitute an unnecessarily excessive infringement on students' freedom of choice. Indeed, most members of the Harvard community were prepared to accept the verdict...
...will be affected by this usurpation of individual decision-making by the Faculty and the core subcommittees. There are indeed valid points to be made on both sides of the question. It is important, however, that all those who can influence the final decision on the adoption of the report's proposals realize the extent to which these reforms will transform General Education and, more importantly, the academic ambience at Harvard...
...Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) said last week that during a closed meeting with the designers of the new core curriculum they inferred that about 30 core courses, each with an enrollment of approximately 200 students, would be created--a contention several authors of the core's report immediately denied. Nevertheless, students, professors and administrators should be aware of the specifics of the Gen Ed revisions before forming an opinion...
...Faculty-appointed committees that developed the core report took the original suggestion of five areas of study, tentatively advanced by a subcommittee last spring, and stretched it to ten. In the opinion of many student and faculty members, these requirements are excessive. One might accept five areas for the sake of pragmatism, but ten are too Draconian to tolerate...
...core curriculum has been another area where faculty/administration control has squelched student input. Last year, the Educational Resources Group published what Francis M. Pipkin, Baird Professor of Science and former associate dean of the Faculty, described as a "well thought out and coherent response to the report of the Task Force on the Core Curriculum." The response made some very valid objections to the task force's proposal...