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...report did not have a guiding philosophy of general education on the order of ‘general education in a free society’ in 1945, or even the Core’s ‘approaches to knowledge,’” Wolcowitz writes in an e-mail. “I expected a clearer guiding philosophy to emerge as requirement areas get defined...
...Still, Wolcowitz dismisses fears about the process’s apparent lack of vision...
...personally less troubled than some others by the fact that we didn’t have an overarching philosophy of general education, believing that the most important goal is to ensure that students are broadly educated in a wide range of fields and do not overspecialize,” Wolcowitz says...
...fact, Wolcowitz began writing the final report before all the working groups had submitted their written recommendations, but Gross says time constraints made this an inevitability...
...Spencer, and Summers himself attended some steering committee meetings, the FAS administrator says, adding that “Clayton saw everything.” Summers says he gave Spencer his suggestions for the report. That steering committee was composed of the three leaders of the review—Gross, Wolcowitz and Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby—the eight co-chairs of the working groups and Carol J. Thompson, an administrator at the Kennedy School of Government who used to serve as an FAS associate dean...