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This decision will be drafted into a formal proposal at the CEP's next meeting April 17 and sent on to the Faculty for approval. By next Fall the Independent Study program, now restricted to honors juniors and seniors, will probably be open to everyone in the College except freshmen...
...CEP also agreed that a student should not have to get his Independent Study project approved by the head tutor in his field. Under the revised rules he would only need two signatures--his supervisor's and that of a senior official in the department. His own department would have veto power over the project only if he were asking concentration credit...
Dean Ford, chairman of the CEP, said last night that the Committee quickly decided to revise the rules when they realized how much Independent Study has changed over the years. Originally Independent Study was to be a mechanism for students to chop their course load from four to three and pursue--or not pursue--a special project with little supervision. Actually most Independent Studies resemble tutorials--carefully supervised one-man courses...
...CEP considered the Independent Study question briefly in January and decided then to take no action on the HPC's recommendations. Ford said that the question was brought back to the CEP floor "because the HPC became much more specific in their suggestions" and because Edward T. Wilcox, CEP secretary and director of the Office of Advanced Standing, which originated the program, "sorted out a set of specific issues on which he wanted the CEP's advice...
Controls have a place in the Independent Study program, and the three changes the CEP is considering would still leave a mechanism for Faculty members to guide students away from blind alleys. It is time though for the Faculty to jetison artificial standards like college year and rank in class. The limits on Independent Study should be the ability of students to think up good projects and the willingness of individual Faculty members to supervise them...