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Among the many causes relating to Lawrence Summers’ downfall, one that is worth dwelling on is the debate over undergraduate general education at Harvard. The college now offers, for example, fewer of the kind of survey courses many undergraduates want and need—the sort of connect-the-dot overviews of the arts and sciences that form the foundation of a liberal education. Understandably, most Harvard faculty members want to teach their specialties. The core curriculum tried to bridge the gap by emphasizing methods of study rather than content, but it doesn’t seem...
...ongoing discussion of curriculum reform has produced very smart papers by distinguished faculty members, from a variety of perspectives, on the goals of liberal education. And the self-proclaimed “Gang of Four” suggested an offering of rigorous survey courses. The report produced by the curriculum review didn’t reflect those concerns. But maybe the controversy over Summers’ departure provides the chance to look at this particular issue anew...
...fairly simply approach might be to create four new survey courses that would be offered to freshmen and sophomores: The History of Civilization; The History of Science; The History of Social Thought (philosophy, politics, economics, sociology); and the History of Arts and Literature...
Harvard raised $589.9 million last year, up from $540.3 million in 2004, when Harvard placed first, according to the annual survey by the Council for Aid to Education...
Four out of five college professors across the nation consider themselves “spiritual,” according to a report released yesterday, countering the popular perception that college campuses are predominantly secular. The Higher Education Research Institute at University of California at Los Angeles surveyed 40,670 faculty at 421 colleges and universities nationwide on their views about religion and spirituality. Jennifer A. Lindholm, director of the project, said she was surprised by the results. “I wasn’t sure what we would find,” she said. “I would...