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...Kirby, an East Asia scholar, cited a 1924 vote of the Chinese Communist Party: “The motion was passed unanimously although many comrades were opposed.”The curriculum approved yesterday has its foundations in a report released in October by a task force headed by English professor Louis Menand and philosophy professor Alison Simmons. That report made headlines by proposing that every undergraduate be required to take a course in the study of religion and a course on the United States. The group’s final report, released in February, eliminated the requirement...
...task force releases its final report, outlining eight required categories of study: Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding, Culture and Belief. Empirical Reasoning, Ethical Reasoning, Science of Living Systems, Science of the Physical Universe, Societies of the World, and the United States in the World...
...curriculum approved today has its foundations in a report released in October by a task force headed by English professor Louis Menand and philosophy professor Alison Simmons. That report made headlines by proposing that every undergraduate be required to take a course in the study of religion and a course on the United States. The group’s final report, released in February, eliminated the requirement of a religion course but retained the requirement of a course on the United States...
...courses currently are evaluated, but, Skocpol said, course evaluation “is an instrument that works best if everybody is in it.” Skocpol said that the requirement had been approved by the Graduate Policy Committee, the Committee on Graduate Education, and recommended by the Task Force on Teaching and Career Development—all groups chaired or co-chaired by Skocpol. The task force released a “compact” this past winter urging professors to give as much weight to teaching as they do to research. Professor of German Peter J. Burgard criticized...
There is no view of Lake Michigan from the basement conference room of the Chicago Hyatt Regency, nothing to distract from the task at hand. David Hughes is making the rounds. He's met the uniforms from the county sheriff's office, hovered near the the railroad company's booth, peered at the slightly mangy Aflac duck. Nothing offered at this recent job fair resembles his previous occupation, driving and manning guns on a Stryker armored vehicle in Mosul, Iraq. No matter: what he needs is a paycheck with benefits, his first full-time job since separating from the Army...