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...their personal understanding of this abstract idea. Participants of this Discussion Group identify a wide range of creative pursuits—from creating electricity with dirt to demonstrating the definition of the word with Legos.Held at the GSE on Appian Way, the Creativity Discussion Group was created after the Task Force for the Arts released its report last December. Both Croft, a visual artist, and Clapp, who has a long history of acting in theater, are doctoral students in the GSE and were motivated by the report’s publication to make their idea for a forum...
...search for order, Lowell turned to specialization—not general education. It was not until World War II that Harvard established a general education curriculum. University President James B. Conant ’14 vested then-Dean of the Faculty Paul H. Buck with an epic task: to chair a committee that would reevaluate secondary and higher American education. The new initiative involved promoting and preserving democratic ideals. The resulting manifesto, the Red Book, not only proposed an answer for how to mold students into educated citizens, but also how to mold a more cohesive world community. Thousands...
With that goal in mind, the new Task Force—co-chaired by Menand and Simmons—produced a piece of legislation that met Bok’s expectations. After releasing their initial report in October 2006, they visited departments to discuss the proposal and then released a revised report in February 2007 to be reviewed by the full Faculty...
According to Menand, he and the rest of the Task Force decided to withdraww from the discussion at that point, since they wanted the Faculty to feel as though the curriculum was theirs...
...paper and in Task Force meetings Menand and Simmons’s legislation seemed like the answer to Bok’s expectations...