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...ROTTEN TO THE CORE...
Nearly all of the DEAS faculty members at Tuesday’s meeting also voted to approve a second statement expressing concerns about the proposal to replace the Core curriculum with a set of distribution requirements...
Abernathy said the second statement emerged from concerns that the reform proposal does not provide concrete incentives—in the form of funding, teaching fellows and other support—that the Core Office currently gives faculty who develop Core courses...
...clear and drastic benefits of this new system vis-à-vis the Core make its timely implementation of the utmost importance. Both current and prospective students want to know that they are coming to Harvard to get the best education in the world. If that is to be the case, the new system should be implemented as soon as possible...
...Faculty must take on this role if the curricular review is to succeed. Additionally, the next dean, whose tenure will likely be defined by the accomplishments of a new curriculum, should not be burdened with even the possibility of implementing Kirby’s program. Changing the decrepit Core program is necessary and should be completed with all due speed, but the new dean of the Faculty needs independence and control over the important alterations...