Word: cep
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said that he was not sure whether to take a pessimistic view of this lack of action "simply because the Faculty and the CEP couldn't think of anything to do about it," or whether he should be optimistic because the Faculty "abandoned the attempt and gave its blessings in principle to a suggestion from the CEP...
...This CEP suggestion was that the problem be turned over to the Masters of the Houses for an agreeable solution...
...When the CEP's revision of the Honors program was accepted last spring, it was clearly felt that offering more independent work and a stronger program would attract more of the University's undergraduates into Honors. While there is every reason to hope that this expectation is justified, the Faculty must not fail to recognize that many capable students still choose non-Honors programs and that their education should involve something more than attending lectures...
After the Brower-Finley-Perkins Committee has worked out a program for present non-Honors juniors, who were caught between the demise of the old program and the departments' inaction on the new one, both the Masters and the CEP should give a great deal of thought to a variegated, voluntary, and active program for non-Honors Juniors and Seniors. Placing the program in the Houses would help to counter the impersonality of lectures, and would provide a framework for non-Honors concentration dinners and seminars, tutorial devices which could help keep the additional number of needed tutors...
Even now, the GSAS catalog recommends that the qualifying examinations be completed after three years, and the Faculty in the spring of 1957 defined the Ph.D. "less in terms of formal courses" than it had previously done. Anticipating the CEP plan of last spring, the Faculty voted an increase in independent work: only eight half courses in the first two years were required rather than sixteen...