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As Harvard goes, so goes higher education?
Seven years and two presidents ago, Harvard began to craft a new curriculum. After many false starts, it will go into effect this fall -- even as its own architects admit it looks a lot like the flawed program it was designed to replace. One could simply toss this aside as a missed opportunity for one university, but do so would be a mistake: Last month, Bucknell University faculty approved a new curriculum, and, amazingly, it looks a lot like Harvard's botched effort.
This is yet another reason that Harvard's ongoing Board of Overseers election is of acute importance -- and Harvard alums who think higher education could do better should look closely at the two petition candidates, Robert Freedman and Harvey Silverglate. Harvard needs to get it right because its choices affect not just its own students, but also those at institutions that, for better or worse, look to Harvard for leadership.
Posted by Anne D. Neal on April 17, 2009 at April 17, 2009 02:32 PM
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