Word: cccp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Committee on Curriculum Planning (CCCP) has been studying M.I.T. undergraduate education for the past two years under the chairmanship of Jerrold R. Zacharias, professor of Physics...
...CCCP felt that its most important recommendation was for a permanent and substantial program of planning and research on undergraduate education. It urged the Institute to devote a significantly greater portion of its resources to this project. "Most universities do not recognize as much as they might the high order of intellectual effort such planning demands," the committee said...
Other parts of the report bear directly on the subject requirements for freshmen and sophomores. The CCCP suggested revision of current rules in order to give undergraduates earlier elective opportunities in the areas of science and engineering...
...CCCP recommended instead that the core consist of one year of a physics sequence and math sequence plus one half-year of chemistry. The student would then add to this by selecting "science area electives" and "elective laboratories...