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...Conway subcommittee of the Committee on Educational Policy, appointed to evaluate the freshman seminar program, has prepared seven recommendations. Of the seven, the sixth suggests the crucial choice before the Faculty: whether or not the seminars should be made consonant with the program in General Education...
...Conway Committee presented its conclusions and recommendations on Freshman Seminars to the Committee on Educational Policy, which endorsed the report without opposition. Dean Ford then opened discussion of the future of the Seminar Program at the Faculty meeting...
...meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Feb. 12, the Conway Committee on Freshman Seminars had recommended that the seminars be continued and that they "be primarily for freshmen." Dean Ford explained that a regular sophomore would probably be able to take a seminar if he could show convincingly why he had missed the program during his freshman year and could convince the Faculty why he should take one as a sophomore, in place of an upper-level seminar or tutorial. Dean Ford estimated that such cases would be very infrequent...
...also explained the recommendation "that the committee reviewing the program of General Education be requested to consider the relation of the seminars to that program." The Conway Committee did not want to tie the hands of the Doty Committee on General Education, Dean Ford said. Though no one has mentioned the possibility, conceivably the Doty Committee might want to re-organize non-departmental courses such as the seminars and general education courses under one, large "unbrella." Thus this recommendation left the position of the seminar undetermined, Dean Ford explained...
...Faculty had only about 45 minutes to discuss the Conway report, and thus no definite steps could be taken yesterday. But by the March 5 meeting the committee will prepare a 50 to 60 page study complete with detailed statistics of the Freshman Seminar program...