Word: conway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Faculty voted unanimously yesterday to approve the report of the Conway committee recommending the continuance of the freshman seminar program...
...question of how much time faculty members put into the freshman seminar program was raised by William N. Lipscomb Jr., professor of Chemistry. Lipscomb said last night that the Conway committee had not considered--"as indeed it was not supposed to"--whether there were alternatives to freshman seminars which could more profitably employ the time of faculty members...
...seminar program at the meeting, but said it was not a solution to the important problem of improving the large lecture courses at the College. Brower said last night that he had been particularly interested in the criticisms of large courses which were contained in the report of the Conway committee, and expressed the hope that "the same amount of money and time and thought which went into the seminar program will be put to use improving the educational experience of students in the large courses...
...sixth recommendation of the Conway subcommittee is "that the committee reviewing the program of General Education [the Doty Committee] be requested to consider the relation of the seminars to that program." The obvious step for the Doty Committee is simply to extend Gen. Ed. credit to seminars in addition to the few in the social sciences which already have it. It should be clear now that such a step would prove fatal to any program which conceives General Education as something more than academic dilettantism...
Thus the Faculty should make more specific the seventh recommendation of the Conway subcommittee, "that a standing committee of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences be appointed to supervise the freshman seminar program." That committee must be the Committee on General Education...