At Barnard Student Government Association’s representative council meeting, Barnard’s new provost, Linda Bell, discussed the changes in store for the college’s curriculum and the Nine Ways of Knowing. Read on for information about the upcoming town hall, where administrators will field student questions about Barnard's finances. Emma Goss brings you the five most important bits of information that you may have missed this week.
Saved by the bell:The administrative guest of the evening was Linda Bell, who became Provost and Dean of Faculty in October. Bell said that beginning next week, she plans to begin preliminary work on “a full-scale general education review.” Bell said that she is assembling a committee that will include faculty and students to discuss how to restructure Barnard’s curriculum and general education requirements. Bell added that it would take a year to a year and a half to conceptualize a new curriculum.
