Word: cep
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...uncertainty over non-Honors arose in February of 1958, when the CEP concluded that non-Honors junior tutorial had proved "disappointing," and suggested that it be discontinued "as a required operation." At the same time, the CEP drew up a program to strengthen Honors tutorial, leaving an even wider split between Honors and non-Honors programs...
Among the non-Honors students, however, the CEP found a "significant group" whose interest the Departments ought to "engage." While such students "typically aim neither at scholarly study nor at later professional accomplishment in their field of concentration," said the CEP report, Departments can interest them in aspects of their field which "touch them as men and as members of a community...
When the Faculty voted on May 6, the CEP had eliminated even this pious hope, and its final report stated that "no department is required to provide tutorial instruction" for non-Honors juniors. This fall, however, Dean Monro took an active concern "on behalf of the whole College," and suggested a voluntary, graded half-course running throughout the year "as part of the communications network between the student and his House...
Since then, discussion of the non-Honors program has revolved around the question of House or Departmental control of the program. The CEP statement did not make clear who should run the programs, but Monro's report throws a new light on this issue...
Last February, the CEP tentatively outlined a plan for non-Honors tutorial. "It is to be hoped," the Committee wrote, "that for each field of concentration a program of group tutorial or small discussion sessions might develop in the Houses for non-Honors seniors. The Committee hopes that each department will be prepared to implement a non-Honors program...