Word: verba
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Pforzheimer University Professor Sidney Verba '53, chair of the Faculty's Core Review Committee, presented his committee's recommendations, refined through months of negotiation and debate, as the meeting's main motion...
...Verba estimated that sufficient courses would not be developed for the Quantitative Reasoning area until September of 1999, meaning that all current students and members of the classes of 2001 and 2002 will not be affected...
Though he expressed some concerns about the measure to allow high-level courses into the Core, Verba said he was pleased with the meeting's overall results...
Responding to student concerns about the Core's inflexibility, the Faculty adopted Verba's call for FAS Dean Jeremy R. Knowles to develop incentives for teaching in the Core and urged Core committees to make their guidelines more inclusive...
...that the Faculty considers indispensable to undergraduate education." The Core fails on its own terms as well as by standards of liberal education. So it is unfortunate-no, it is inexcusable that the recent reform process undertaken by the Core Review Committee (CRC) and headed by University Professor Sidney Verba '53 has failed in its mission to reform the Core...