Word: cep
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...CEP recommended that departments step-up Honors tutorial with grades, examinations, and themes. This year the Social Relations staff plans to institute a Sophomore examination, along with an enlarged first-year tutorial reading program...
...when the faculty passed the CEP proposals, it left the non-honors tutorial program up to the Houses and individual departments. Some of them, like Government and Economics, will try to arrange tutorial for a student who requests it, while the History Department has expressed an intention of coordinating an advisory program in each House for non-honors juniors. The Philosophy Department, on the other hand, claims that it does not have the manpower to offer any non-honors junior tutorial even if requested...
...their disregard of the CEP's formal but unratified non-honors proposals, many departments are doing the entire CEP program a major disservice. So far, only a handful of students in Government and Economics have asked for tutorial; perhaps next year, if not encouraged, none may request it. And, as is often pointed out, a non-honors concentrator is not necessarily an incapable, shiftless, or uninterested student. He can often benefit from tutorial instruction as much as the honors candidate...
...prevent a withering of the non-honors program, the larger departments might try reversing their present method of waiting for tutorial to be requested before offering it. As was suggested by the CEP provisions last spring, the Houses and Departments should see that at least one member of each department will organize non-honors tutorial in each House. A definite House-oriented tutorial program should be established; those uninterested would not have to attend. If departments claim they do not have enough tutors to offer non-honors instruction, then they should add personnel...
Changes in accordance with this aspect of the CEP proposals, have come less rapidly in other major fields of concentration. Seymour E. Harris '20, chairman of the Department of Economics, said yesterday, "It is basically a problem for the Houses...