Word: reviewers
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...that end, the economist-turned-dean has launched what participants are calling "a curriculum review with a little `c' and a little `r'." The curriculum review, headed by Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education David Pilbeam, is designed to analyze the nuts and bolts of undergraduate education in each of the 42 concentrations, from tutorials to advising to course requirements...
...rare occurence when Harvard decides to review its undergraduate education: only twice in the last 50 years has the University undertaken such reviews, and the results--General Education and, later, the Core Curriculum--have had wide-ranging impacts in academia...
...most important component of the review is the role that it will play in helping sift through the myriad requests for new funds likely to become available from the impending University-wide capital campaign--expected to aim for up to $2 billion...
Despite the possible long-term impact of the review, participants describe it as a low-key process intended simply to give administrators a better understanding of how the teaching of undergraduates is played out on a day-to-day basis...
...most illiberal, exploitative practice amounting to millions of dollars. But since the inquiry was made public by The Wall Street Journal and other media heavy-weights in August, a lot of documents, press releases, legalistic arguments and philosophical points have been bandied about. The massive and unprecedented Justice Department review will likely take months to clear the confusion...