In the Fall of 1966, seventy students set out to rethink the way that undergraduates are taught at Brown University. Eventually joined by more students and a number of professors, the group conducted a yearlong study of college education, its history, and the latest ideas for making it better - all in the hopes of applying what they learned to Brown. The end result was a 400-page tome that presented the group's research, proposed a philosophy of education, and set out the details of a new curriculum to implement that philosophy. Within three years, the student-centered philosophy of education presented in their report became Brown's educational philosophy, and it endures to this day.Every Fall, more than 1,600 new undergraduates walk through Brown's Van Wickle Gates to discover a world of intellectual freedom unmatched by any other college. For most of these students, this freedom is precisely why they chose to come. Simply put, the New Curriculum defines the undergraduate experience. Today's Brown students owe a tremendous debt of gratitude to the individuals whose names appear on the title page of this book, and the countless others who were involved.The Open Jar Foundation is delighted to be releasing this paperback edition of the report, with a new introduction from authors Ira Magaziner and Elliot Maxwell. We hope that our efforts will make the report accessible to a wide range of audiences: administrative groups at Brown, charged with charting the future of the curriculum; students in education courses at Brown and elsewhere; Brown students who are simply interested in learning where their celebrated curriculum came from; students at other schools who are attempting to effect their own curricular change; and many others. We hope that you will enjoy reading it as much as we have enjoyed putting it together.(The Open Jar Foundation is a not-for-profit organization dedicatedto the performing arts and curricular freedom in higher education.)