Beliefwatch Ivy League
The job wasn’t going to be easy. Harvard has been looking at revising its core curriculum–established in 1978 to ensure that all undergraduates are educated in certain subject areas–for years. Committees were convened and disbanded, defeated by internal politics and conceptual stalemates. The most recent iteration, the aforementioned task force, is now drafting its final recommendations for a vote next month by the faculty. It will likely succeed, but not without sustaining considerable damage from the culture wars....