The Curriculum

The Curriculum
Cut to the Core
Apr 03, 2017
University that locked out its faculty in the fall is now telling professors they must shrink the core curriculum within a year and make do without majors such as philosophy and math.
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The unintended consequences of too many requirements (essay)
June 27, 2017

They can have unintended consequences, writes Donal O’Shea. And the trick is to find those that actually improve student learning.

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Long Island University, citing need to attract students, orders faculty to trim core curriculum
April 3, 2017

University that locked out its faculty in the fall is now telling professors they must shrink the core curriculum within a year and make do without majors such as philosophy and math.

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Princeton proposal would require all students -- even those already proficient -- to study a language other than English
November 2, 2016

Princeton general-education proposal would require all students -- even those already proficient in a foreign language -- to study a language other than English. Most of the shrinking number of institutions with requirements let students test out of them.

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Dean at Seattle U, subject of protests seeking her ouster and defending her, retires
July 25, 2016

Academic at center of dispute at Seattle University -- subject of lengthy sit-in demanding her ouster and protest defending her -- will retire.

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A humanities professor visits colleges with his daughter (essay)
May 27, 2016
John Fea, a history chair, describes what he learned on his daughter's college tours about the presence or absence of a liberal arts ethos.
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Dick Gregory writes to student protesters about which battles matter most (essay)
May 26, 2016

Dick Gregory writes that students who are protesting against a dean who recommended his autobiography should think about which battles matter the most.

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Extracurriculars are robbing students of their education (essay)
April 11, 2016

Students are so busy singing in a cappella groups, planting trees for the environment and playing intramural ultimate Frisbee that they're being robbed of their education, argues William Hurst.

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How misguided university policies are harming the humanities, arts and sciences (essay)
December 18, 2015

Universities themselves have helped cripple the humanities, the arts and the sciences, argues Harvey Graff.

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General education gets a makeover at Utah university, combining full year in one course
November 6, 2015

Southern Utah University goes all in with an experiment on general education, combining 13 courses into one year of material that eight professors jointly teach.

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A Toni Morrison novel makes it into a curriculum known for its classical roots
June 25, 2015

Columbia's core literature course, long criticized for its lack of diversity, adds to the list a novel by Toni Morrison -- the first living author and the first nonwhite author.

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