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...curriculum,” he said at yesterday’s meeting. “It should not be the job of an implementation committee to do the simple arithmetic that should precede the vote.”The gap between approval and implementation after the last curricular review was about one year. The Faculty endorsed the Core Curriculum in spring 1978, and the new program took effect for freshmen entering in fall 1979. Professor of the History of Science Everett I. Mendelsohn, who has taught at Harvard since the 1960s, recalled a two-year transition period in which both...
Professors voted to refer questions surrounding evaluations to the Committee on Pedagogical Improvement for further review...
...approved legislation to replace the Core with a new general education curriculum emphasizing the real-world applications of a liberal arts education.In a 168-to-14 vote at yesterday’s meeting of the Faculty, professors concluded a four-year-long debate over the centerpiece of the curricular review, the College’s first in three decades. After six meetings in as many weeks, professors expressed happiness and relief that the legislation’s passage—a stated goal of FAS administrators for this year—had been achieved.Under the new general education requirements, students...
...House resident and member of HDAG, says the group received a response to its letters and petitions from Interim President Derek C. Bok. Bok wrote on March 16 that he had forwarded two letters from HDAG to the Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (CCSR) “for further review.”The two-member CCSR is responsible for reviewing issues surrounding the University’s investments.The committee has yet to respond to the HDAG proposal, but the students remain hopeful. Elizabeth Gray, the CCSR secretary, declined to comment last week.Nationwide, the divestment movement remains energized, fueled...
...before they become mandatory. As Skocpol prepares to step down from her post at the end next month, the push for universal evaluation may prove to be the last public act of her deanship. Professors voted to refer questions surrounding evaluations to the Committee on Pedagogical Improvement for further review. At a meeting in May 2006, professors failed to reach a quorum for a binding vote on the same matter even as some of them blasted the proposal for infringing on “professorial autonomy.” The Faculty yesterday also approved next year’s student...