Word: programming
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...allegiance of U.S. allies. But that faliure was far overshadowed in the election by the roaring inflation that Carter's numerous switches in economic policy could never stop or even slow, and the rising unemployment that seemed to accept as the price of an ineffective anti-inflation program...
Aside from celebrity gazing, many members of the Harvard community have a different concern with the new government: draft registration. While President Carter's program remains in legal limbo pending a Supreme Court decision on whether it unconstitutionally discriminates against men, the possibility that Reagan could terminate it by executive order also raises hopes among the unnumbered thousands who refused to register...
That attitude, however, creates a political problem for the subcommittees, which are trying desperately this year to encourage Faculty members to teach in the Core. Because the program has not reached its course goal and because professors are not clamoring to get into the Core, the program cannot afford to lose offerings. Therefore, many subcommittee members believe that initiating a strict evaluation process now would be a mistake...
...people working on the Core--for whom the tattered Gen Ed program should serve as an example of what not to do--know they must develop some method for keeping tabs on courses once they become part of the program. What they remain uncertain about is exactly how to do that. So far, each of the Core's five subcommittees has been allowed to use whatever method it likes for evaluating the courses offered under its authority--with varied success...
...fully implemented, it may prove prudent for the subcommittees to refrain from imposing themselves on professors teaching Core courses. But what's politic is not always what's right. The people working on the Core have an obligation to create a standardized method for regularly reviewing offerings in the program. Establishing student-Faculty committees to evaluate courses in each of the five Core areas and then report their findings would prove workable and beneficial. But no system will work without the cooperation of professors teaching in the Core. For the sake of the program and students taking courses...