Word: reductionism
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The will stipulates that the bequest “be used for renovation projects,” so most of the money will likely be used for building projects and debt reduction, rather than on the expansion of student-related programs.
The staff celebrates this recent reduction of Core requirements for one reason: There are now only seven more required Core classes to eliminate. The core offers few courses of substance, they argue, and is an inappropriate waste of academic time. Yet their attitude dangerously accepts a shallow expectation of the...
Recognizing these failings, and seeking to renovate the Core, however, is one thing. Seeking to overhaul the Core, and in effect, the sole guarantee to our liberal arts education, is another. This staff may consider the reduction as encouragingly increasing course flexibility for students. Yet there is no guarantee that...
Pedersen will leave several major initiatives for her successor to complete. The current Faculty debate over grade inflation is unlikely to be resolved by the end of the year. And the Core reduction, if passed today, would be only a first step towards revamping the Core curriculum—which...
Europeans love to argue that the U.S. has a strategy for winning the war against terrorism but none for winning the peace. Poverty, they say (and I agree), is a persistent source of instability and violence. The remedy is in their own hands. Few ever expected a Republican Administration to...