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According to Chief University Planner Kathy A. Spiegelman, an important point of tension lies between the University’s efforts to get the project underway by the end of the calendar year and respond to all of the task force??s comments regarding the DPIR’s content...
Daniel Millenson, a rising junior at Brandeis University, is one of the leaders of the Sudan Divestment Task Force??the organization that authored the original targeted divestment proposal. After reading the CCSR report, he said he found their decision baffling...
...curricular process worked, consider the fate of the Task Force??s “Reason and Faith” proposal. This idea worried some professors who are—justifiably—distressed by the advance of unreason in society. Johnstone Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker put the issue most plainly: “Universities are about reason, pure and simple.” Faith belongs in churches and temples, not at Harvard...
...renewed indefinitely. Yet rather than taking steps to remedy these issues and move toward creating a culture in which teaching ability is valued commensurately with research acumen, the Faculty again turned up its nose at an issue that should dominate attention. The Faculty meeting in which the Task Force??s report was to be discussed was one of the most poorly attended of the year. We hope that Faust and Smith do not allow the report to gather dust on a shelf and instead make it a guiding document for their tenures.The two should also take a page...
...uninspiring. The new curriculum, which was passed last month by a Faculty anxious not to lose face by voting down legislation that has been over four years in the making, is a flawed hodgepodge that, in trying to appease everyone, will ultimately serve no one. When the Task Force??s preliminary report was released last October, we hoped and believed that General Education would herald a new age for undergraduate education at Harvard. Gone would be the days of inflexible requirements and begging for exemptions at the Core Office. General Education was about to heroically do away with...