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...flesh out the rationale, which isn’t there now,” adding that they will finally address questions such as, “What are the weaknesses in the current structure that we aim to address? What are the strengths and weaknesses of the Core Curriculum...
More than a year has passed since an early curricular review committee called for the dissolution of the Core and its replacement with a combination of distribution requirements and vaguely defined Harvard College Courses. After close to 20 committee meetings and countless pages of proposals, Harvard is now only nine pages closer to articulating a new vision for general education, and many of last year’s questions and doubts remain. A few select committee members now find themselves toiling to reach landmarks they hoped to have already passed...
...past two curricular reviews, University presidents have played large roles in forming the new curricula—James Conant ’13 produced the bestselling Redbook on general education in the late 1940s, and Derek Bok spearheaded the formation of today’s Core Curriculum...
While development of the centerpiece of last year’s report—the replacement of the Core Curriculum with a set of knowledge-based general education requirements—is still caught at the committee level, other committees have submitted ideas to the full faculty for review...
Merritt and fellow freshmen Jamie Greenwald and Danielle Mirabel each received Ivy League Rookie of the Week honors. And sophomore back Laura Odorczyk and junior Sara Sedgwick joined Moran on the honorable mention All-Ivy list, rounding out what is a very solid core of underclassmen...