Word: approach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most U.S. educators have long looked with suspicion on Roberts' fiscal-minded approach to running a college, and last week the North Central Associ ation of Colleges and Secondary Schools voted to revoke Parsons' accreditation. The association did not explain its reasons, but other investigators have unearthed evidence suggesting that academic quality is not Parsons' primary goal. A surprising proportion of its students are either transfers or dropouts from other schools, and the colloquial campus name for Parsons is "Dropout U." Although well-paid, many Parsons professors must handle up to 20 class hours a week...
Young professional people, with the writers in the vanguard, have been increasingly critical of restrictions imposed by the system on free expression and the free exchange of ideas. Young writers have been the leaders of the protests against the dogmatic approach to life that is so characteristic of the communist regimes. On a broader scale, the large mass of young people, who are neither products of the higher educational system nor young intellectuals, are equally disillusioned. Although their horizons are not so high as to push them into protests and demands for more selfexpression, they do have their own means...
...STUDENT political movement of the 1960's is, in the totality of its means and ends, unique in American history. No single element of its approach is entirely new but the combination of these elements is new. To speak of a "movement" at all is to over-state the situation, for the very nature of the activity makes it dispersed and diverse. There are changing localities of action, vehicles for expression, tactics to pursue; and no developed ideology. It is a movement that can be seen and has been seen by many different people in many different ways...
...Between the two developments, political activism has risen to greater heights on campus than in any earlier decade. But it is confrontation politics that has set the stage and given the volume of numbers to the protest. The Left has been associated with it but the totality of the approach has not been essentially Left, with its emphasis on ideology, organization, and activity throughout society. Nor has the Left supplied large numbers of participants. The Left has joined the "popular front" rather than created it. The issue-by-issue protestors have been the new and largely dominant element...
Thomas C. Schelling, professor of Economics, has been asked by the State Department to develop a "systems analysis" approach to foreign policy...