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Four months ago, the Task Force on General Education articulated, in its preliminary report, a guiding philosophy for the future of general education. That philosophy, centered on the practical application of a liberal arts education to the problems of the modern world, impressed us then and continues to do so today.The Task Force, however, has gone too far with this philosophy in its final report, which was released last week and will be discussed by the full Faculty today. Unlike the original report, which emphasized the openness and flexibility of the new system, this latest report perpetuates...
...second consecutive week, the Cambridge City Council broke into fierce debate over one councillor’s request to alter the membership of its Neighborhood Safety Committee, a task force charged with addressing crime problems following a rise in robberies and assaults during the summer of 2006. However, much of the furor surrounded the Cambridge Chronicle, a local newspaper that has recently published several editorials criticizing the management of Mayor Kenneth E. Reeves ’72 in forming the Committee. During last week’s meeting, Councillor E. Denise Simmons put forth a resolution that would have increased...
...four members of the economics department who worked on the plans.But by that summer, word of a looming FAS budget deficit had begun to emerge from University Hall.Last February, University Art Museums announced that the Fogg would be shuttering along with other aging museums for renovations. Faced with the task of finding a place for the museums’ multi-billion-dollar collections, then-Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby told Stock that the plans for renovating Littauer would not be going forward—and that the Fine Arts Library would be moving in.Kirby, the Geisinger professor...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) is slated to discuss the final report of the Task Force on General Education at its meeting this afternoon, and Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles has said a vote on the report may come as soon as March...
...Many professors expressed support for the final report’s real-world rationale and praised the Task Force for responding to criticisms of earlier drafts...