Advertisement

Faculty Council Debates Gen Ed

Members unsure of guiding principle behind proposed distribution requirements

Also at yesterday’s meeting, the six council members who met on Monday with two members of the Harvard Corporation, the University’s top governing board, reported back to the rest of the council.

Phillips Professor of Early American History Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, who attended the meeting with the Corporation members, said it was “really productive.”

“We talked informally and practically,” Ulrich said.

She said that similar meetings between council and Corporation members were “likely” in the future.

Ulrich said council members may discuss their meeting with the Corporation briefly at next Tuesday’s full Faculty meeting, in order to keep the rest of the Faculty informed.

Advertisement

“We want to be transparent,” Ulrich said.

A “report on the progress and schedule of the Curricular Review,” presented by Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences William C. Kirby and Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71, is also on the agenda for the March 15 Faculty meeting.

But continued discussion of University President Lawrence H. Summers’ leadership will likely consume much of the meeting. The Faculty will debate two motions, one of which calls for a vote of no confidence in Summers’ tenure. The other motion includes a list of grievances against Summers and calls for the Faculty to have an increased say in University governance.

—Staff writer Sara E. Polsky can be reached at polsky@fas.harvard.edu.

Advertisement