Grace Driggers remembers feeling uncomfortable throughout REL-121, a course she took to fulfill the core religion requirement. For three years, Calvin had been a place that had built her up in song, in...
Calvin is one step closer to revitalizing the humanities on campus by considering how the humanities can impact core, thanks to funding from the National Endowment of the Humanities. Calvin was one of...
The proposal to grant an exemption from the Persons in Community (PIC) core category and the second year of foreign language to students in Bachelor of Science (BS) and Bachelor of Computer Science (BCS)...
Faculty senate is in the throes of debating a new core proposal. This proposal would allow students pursuing a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) or a Bachelor of Computer Science (B.C.S) degree to be exempt from...
At Monday’s full faculty assembly, the proposal for a revised core curriculum structure failed to receive the required 60 percent supermajority needed for approval. Out of 227 faculty votes cast, there...
At last week’s faculty senate meeting, the core curriculum committee (CCC) presented a “draft working model” of a new core to the senators for feedback. Provost Brandsen stressed that it was tentative...
When I filled my core requirement for the arts, I took Classic Mythology. At the time, I was just relieved I didn’t have to take a genuine art class – that is, something involving drawing, painting,...
“Does Calvin’s liberal arts curriculum foster critical thinking skills?”
Jim Jadrich, science education and physics professor, addressed this question last Friday in an informative presentation...
This past Wednesday, student senate hosted a town hall for students to ask questions about potential changes to core. Around two dozen students showed up to listen to a presentation given by members of...
After 15 years of the current core and nearly two years of discussions around core revision, three new core proposals, one of which is to retain the current core, will be brought to the faculty this May....
Students asked hard-hitting questions about Calvin’s future at Wednesday night’s town hall meeting with President Michael Le Roy. Taking questions from both Twitter and the audience, President Le Roy...
A disagreement between academic departments over the need to revise the current core curriculum has delayed plans for a new core, according to professor Bruce Berglund, chair of the core curriculum committee.
Earlier...
