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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...
...described and evaluated in the 100 page appendix to the recommendations of the Conway subcommittee, the freshman seminar program and the program of General Education presently work at cross-purposes. Some quotations from the report, written by Byron Stookey and endorsed by the subcommittee, will suggest that one of the aims of the seminar program is to induce students to follow their teachers into an academic career. The seminars "have utilized inquiry in depth (a) as a means of demonstrating the nature and methods of a significant academic area; (b) to provide opportunity for the student to discover what scholarly...
...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...