Word: cores
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nearly two years later, Butterfield is still being hunted down by hard core Nixonians. Now head of the Federal Aviation Administration, which is under attack for neglecting safety standards, he has been hampered by the undercutting and sandbagging of Nixon allies in the Department of Transportation, the parent body of FAA. What is more, Butterfield has been getting midnight phone calls from old associates who have berated him for coming clean about the White House tapes. One call came from Rose Mary Woods, the former President's longtime secretary, who angrily assailed Butterfield as a "son of a bitch...
...framework set up for it in 1945 by the Harvard Committee's report, General Education in A Free Society [The Redbook], and modified in 1965 by the Doty Report, is no longer suited to existing intellectual, social and institutional conditions. No longer does General Education serve as the fundamental core curriculum that was originally intended. The broadly-based intellectual and "cultural experience that was available to students particularly freshmen and sophomores, twenty years ago is gone. And instead of being replaced by, an updated system adapted to the universally changing conditions (rising cultures, new social theories, a worsening economy) that...
...admissions offices are now admitting students with widely varied academic experiences in high school. Professors can no longer assume that most freshmen have reached a relatively consistent level of knowledge in certain fields by the time they come here. Not only, therefore, has a clear conception of what a core course ought to be become increasingly difficult to form; but a core curriculum that would be a logical continuation of the student body's secondary school education, is unthinkable...
Professors and administrators have not been alone in questioning the value, or even feasibility, of the traditional theory of education based upon a core curriculum. Back in 1966, a former Harvard proctor recently noted, general opposition to authority inspired students to question the value of certain long-established basic requirements. In 1968, the compulsory lower-level General Education requirement was abolished. Audiences in lower level courses shrank severely as a result. Students were demanding something new from their courses; they wanted something tangible, to get out and do something. Students were asking to be able to put their energies into...
Though the U.S. makes up the largest component of this empire, Evangelicalism is a worldwide movement that includes tens of millions of people of nearly every persuasion, from Anglicans to Fundamentalists. While the more liberal Protestants embrace many theologies, Evangelicals are united on a core of orthodox beliefs and take literally the biblical injunction to "proclaim the good news to the whole creation." They are now fielding more missionaries than ever before and have little trouble attracting hundreds of thousands of followers to their crusades...