“While I appreciate the report’s broad contours...it still remains to develop a guiding vision,” Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures Julie A. Buckler told the Faculty at its May 18 meeting.
Others cited a disconnect between the professors on the working groups and the administrators in charge of the review.
Coleman wrote in an e-mail after that Faculty meeting that seven of the 14 concentration recommendations in the final report were not contained in the report of her group—and some, including the concentration cap, “do not mesh with the spirit of our discussions.”
“None of the working groups collaborated with any of the others,” she said at the last regular Faculty meeting of the year in May.
But Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences William C. Kirby said all proposals in the final report were “strongly endorsed” by the curricular review’s steering committee, of which each working group’s co-chairs were members.
Some of the recommendations, Kirby said in an interview, will require no vote by the Faculty at large. The Faculty will vote on any proposals that change graduation requirements or “fundamentally change the nature of the curriculum,” he said.
—Staff writer Laura L. Krug can be reached at krug@fas.harvard.edu.