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Schneider, Alison – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1999
Two major universities illustrate very different experiences with curriculum reform. At Duke University (North Carolina), a new core curriculum was adopted smoothly. At Rice University (Texas), a new undergraduate curriculum that took long to develop was defeated easily by disgruntled faculty. Some feel public relations and institutional politics…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Curriculum, College Faculty, Core Curriculum