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...afternoon KSG panel, led by former Dean of the Faculy of Arts and Sciences Henry Rosovsky??who is currently co-chair of a joint UNESCO-World Bank committee on higher education in developing countries—addressed the future of higher education in Vietnam. Harvard Business School Professor Tarun Khanna, as well as scholars from MIT and Tufts University, also participated in the discussion...
...nation. The 1945 review under then-University President James B. Conant ’14 essentially invented the idea of general education; its report, the “Redbook,” sold 40,000 copies in a few years. Former Dean of the Faculty Henry A. Rosovsky??s 1979 review invented the Core and a system of “approaches to knowledge” that became popular nationwide...
...Core with a combination of departmental distribution requirements and the so-called Harvard College Courses, a set of as-yet-undefined broad interdisciplinary survey courses. This proposal somewhat resembles the distributional requirement system established in the 1940s, which faced widespread faculty and student dissatisfaction by the time of Rosovsky??s 1970s review that created the Core as a replacement. According to critics at the time, the flexibility of the 1940s system led to diluted courses lacking intellectual rigor and left the faculty uninspired and lackadaisical about teaching them...
...under former Dean of the Faculty Henry A. Rosovsky. But these comparisons are disingenuous at best. Conant’s revolutionary review essentially invented the idea of general education, the basis for core curricula nationwide; its 1945 report, the Redbook, sold 40,000 copies in a few years. Rosovsky??s review reinvigorated the faculty—still reeling from the culture shocks of the 1960s—by designing the core we know today, creating the idea of “approaches to knowledge.” Both of them garnered frequent press coverage and influenced undergraduate pedagogy...
...Wolcowitz based on the committees’ work is due in May, but don’t expect anything earth-shattering. The committees are set up with broad tasks that seem more suited to re-evaluating the administrative processes of pedagogy, not the fundamental questions of education. While Rosovsky??s committees centered around intellectual inquiries—“Historical Study,” “Literature and Arts” and the other core areas we all know and love—this review is ill-defined and is suited to revising calendars, not ways...