May 28, 1999

Rice U. Approves Scaled-Down Plan to Revamp Curriculum

Lesson from the school of hard knocks: If you want to get a curriculum reform approved, don't make any big changes.

Last fall, efforts to revamp the core curriculum at Rice University went up in smoke after disgruntled professors thought they smelled a "postmodern plot" (The Chronicle, February 19).

The sticking point: "ways of knowing" -- five interdisciplinary approaches to knowledge. Critics thought

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