<p>Has this been posted yet?</p>
<p><a href="http://thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=510923%5B/url%5D">http://thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=510923</a>
Although significant Faculty discussion is still required before final legislation can be completed, votes on recommendations regarding concentrations and general education are possible this spring.</p>
<p>If the votes are successful, the class of 2007 might have the option of graduating under simpler distribution requirements and the class of 2010 could be the first to declare concentrations during their sophomore rather than freshman year.</p>
<p>"The review, the Colleges first since the 1970s, has been beset by delays over the past year and dogged by criticism that it lacks bold new ideas. An article in The New York Times on Jan. 8 noted that the general education report contained concepts already produced by curricular reviews at Yale and other peer institutions and said that the report landed on many desks not so much with a thud as a rustle.</p>
<p>But in his letter to the Faculty, Kirby insisted that this review was about improving education, not making big news. </p>
<p>The history of our curricular reforms in the past century shows that Harvard has been better at making large curricular statements than it has been in improving the teaching of its undergraduates, Kirby wrote in the letter. We should be pleased for this Faculty to engage in a firm defense of the ideals of a liberal educationvulnerable here as anywherebut only if, in the same moment, we really improve what we do here.</p>
<p>Wow, those are some pretty sweeping changes being proposed... moving finals into December? The possibility of minors? Wow! I can't wait to read what they decide...</p>
<p>Hey! Harvard's starting to look a lot like Yale!</p>