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...similar, five-person committee that met last summer was also charged with structuring a set of general education requirements for the College. Though that report will ultimately not be adopted by the Faculty, it will likely inform the work of this summer??s group...
...This summer??s committee, which first met on June 9, includes two veterans of last summers “Gang of Five”—including Menand and philosophy professor Alison Simmons—as well as four new faces...
...membership parallels the three-by-three structure of the current Gen Ed recommendations, with two professors representing each of the three proposed areas. The two humanities professors on this summer??s committee, Menand and Simmons, were both members of the Gang of Five. The two science professors on the committee, Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology David R. Liu ‘94 and Ford Professor of Human Evolution David Pilbeam, and the two social science professors on the committee, Lindsley Professor of Psychology Stephen M. Kosslyn and Professor of Sociology Mary C. Waters, are new to general...
...three-year-old curricular review, it’s déjà vu. In circumstances strikingly similar to those in which the “Gang of Five” —a group of academics who revised the recommendations of the Committee on General Education last summer??was formed, Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby has selected six professors to retailor a set of general education proposals that have generated little enthusiasm among faculty members.It is one of the last official acts of the deanship for Kirby, who was charged with spearheading the curricular...
...important new programs, and I’ll want to build upon good foundations that he’s laid,” Knowles said.At his final Faculty meeting as dean last week, Kirby said that a group of professors would draft legislation on general education over the summer??meaning that the Faculty may vote on a possible successor to the Core Curriculum as early as the fall.Knowles, who did a two-year stint in the British Royal Air Force before graduating first-class from Oxford University, earned renown as a chemist before becoming an administrator. A scholar...