The Core of the Problem
The implementation of the Core Curriculum demanded more from professors--especially senior faculty--but it was not met by an increase in the ranks of FAS.
Without additional faculty to teach the new curriculum, the Core offers less than 70 percent of the 132 courses it is supposed to offer.
"Faculty members are very scrupulous about covering their own areas," said Pedersen, "but we also try to mount a general education curriculum, with the Core and freshman seminars. That's hard to sustain with the size of the faculty we have now."
Fisher said that these requirements were concentrated in certain departments that overlap to a large degree with specific Core areas.
"We have an obligation to give students a broad curriculum of courses in Literature and Arts B that we can't meet because we don't have enough people," said Harvard College Professor Thomas Forrest Kelly, chair of the Music department. "The Core puts a little more burden on us."
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