Inside Higher Ed: ‘Time Out’ to Reconsider Core Changes
Many a curricular overhaul is controversial. At the University System of Georgia, where two preliminary plans were met with intense skepticism from some quarters earlier this year, the uproar is causing second thoughts among administrators, who wrote in a letter to faculty members on Monday that they would “halt the current core revision process until later in the year” to allow for more input from faculty at each of the 35 campuses, and “to take stock of where we are.”
The decision, announced by Susan Herbst, the system’s chief academic officer and executive vice chancellor, was a partial about-face that was cheered by many of the plans’ critics. Since the changes were announced, they maintained that faculty were not properly included in the planning stages and that the proposals — still preliminary and short on specifics, to be sure — would water down instruction and training in vital subject areas.
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