Word: adjuncts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...because several Junior colleges were awarding an Associate of Arts degree for only two years work. President Lowell and the faculty thought that degree was being cheapened, so they invented a new term, Adjunct in Arts, which the Commission gives new. The faculty will not award a Bachelor of Arts to an Extension student, for he does not take General examinations or participate in Tutorial work...
However, most students in the Extension program do not attempt to get the Adjunct in Arts degree, only slightly over two hundred have fulfilled the necessary requirements. This is way under one percent of the enrollment since 1910. Explaining this unwillingness to follow the courses through, Dean Phelps says, "The average time for a person with a full time job to complete the prescribed course is about six years," and anything can happen in that long a time. Most enrolless study for only one year, and take courses that they missed in college, or if they...
...holders of the Adjunct of Arts degree have been awarded sixteen Master of Arts degrees, eleven Masters of Education, one Bachelor of Sacred Theology, and five Doctors of Philosophy. Looking over this impressive list of what were once part time scholars. Dean Pheips modestly states, "it would seem, there fore, that the Extension courses and the degree for which they count are each year fulfilling the educational purpose for which they were originally established...
...observed, information has come to the attention of this bureau charging White as being a valuable adjunct to an underground Soviet espionage organization operating in Washington...
...move to Wisconsin . . . which in the days of the elder LaFollette was not the way it is now." He graduated from the University of Wisconsin, got his Master's degree at the University of Chicago and took his first teaching post in the University of Texas as "The Adjunct Professor of English and Literature." From this post, Jones moved around, teaching at the Universities of Texas, Montana, and North Carolina, and finally winding up back in Michigan in 1930. In 1936, his scholarly reputation established, but still a somewhat bewildered Midwesterner, he came to Harvard. "I kept looking...