Also at yesterday’s meeting, Kirby and Gross announced for the first time the full list of students, professors and administrators who will serve on Harvard’s four curricular review committees.
Though the committee chairs and student members had been announced earlier this month, Kirby and Gross have spent the last few months courting Faculty members to serve on the committees that will lead the largest evaluation of the undergraduate curriculum since the 1970s.
“I had never thought about [serving] in this kind of context, but I have been very interested in the curriculum and in the idea of review,” said Professor of Anthropology Daniel E. Lieberman, who will serve on the working group on students’ overall academic experience. “This is a very complex institution in which there are lots of highly integrated and interdependent units. Unless you think about how they all fit together, you could end up with a disaster.”
—Jessica E. Vascellaro contributed to the reporting of this article.
—Staff writer Rebecca D. O’Brien can be reached at robrien@fas.harvard.edu.