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Harvard’s next interim president, Derek C. Bok, who oversaw the implementation of the current Core Curriculum during his first term as the University’s chief, said in an e-mail Friday that he will not impose his ideas for the curricular review on the Faculty...
...outgoing president, Lawrence H. Summers, stepped back from the review last spring after professors exerted pressure on him to reduce his involvement in Faculty affairs. Until last spring, Summers served as an ex officio member of the General Education committee, which is charged with reforming the Core...
...Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language Louis Menand, another member of the Committee on General Education, said there is a very good chance the proposals for an overhaul of the Core will fall through...
...reference to Bok’s preference for more carefully delineated categories of courses, Menand pointed out that when Bok started to develop the idea for the Core in the early 70s, it was a very different...
...According to Phyllis Keller, author of “Getting at the Core: Curricular Review at Harvard,” during the last review, Bok would attend meetings of the committees to show his interest, but he was not directly involved in discussion...