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...Professors will apply to the Standing Committee on General Education, chaired by Wolfson Professor of Jewish Studies Jay M. Harris, for their course to be accepted to one of the eight fields. This framework hopes to eschew the liabilities of the Core, most notably its limited choice and poor course selection, through a more judicious and broadly conceived review process...
...that end, Fryer’s lab has been studying problems as varied as whether or not names associated with African-Americans put black employees at a disadvantage in the workplace and how to give incentives for kids in poor schools to do well on achievement tests...
...fact, the U.S. generates about a quarter of the world’s goods and services—a number roughly in line with our proportional resource consumption. Moreover, I doubt we really want Americans to have the same standard of living as wonderfully resource-efficient (read: desperately poor) Indians...
...human cognition. He sealed his fate not even by positing a controversial belief, but by his mere suggestion that it could be the case—and no matter that his actions spoke loud, that he did more than anyone, for instance, to make a Harvard education affordable to poor and middle-income families. Summers was punished for doing what, in the best of worlds, intellectuals would do more often: taking advantage of a university’s purported spirit of open inquiry, and freely speaking their minds...
...Alas, the devil is in the details—or the lack thereof. Despite outlining a new rationale and rubric for deciding whether courses will count, General Education does not adequately address the Core’s most egregious failings: its constraining menu of course choices and poor teaching standards.Instead of sharply defining the new system, the Faculty threw up its hand and left all of the critical elements of implementation—from deciding how many courses will count to transitioning between the Core and General Education—to a new and all-powerful committee, the Standing Committee...