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Land Surrender. Although virtually all African leaders are products of mission schools, many of them are now suspicious of Christian-supervised education. Uganda Strongman Milton Obote, who was educated by Protestants, has already nationalized all missionary schools; religious instruction is included in the curricula, but the churches claim that many government-appointed teachers refuse to teach it. Tanzania last month demanded that missions give up unused landholdings...
...students, whether living on campus or not, will participate in the Upward Bound program of high school tutoring, counseling and seminars. The seminars deal with areas not directly related to school curricula--comparative religions, computers, general psychology...
Sister Jacqueline Grennan, 40, president of Missouri's Webster College, has a nationwide reputation as a nunly innovator. She is the only woman member of the President's educational advisory council, and under her direction Webster has done pioneering research in the development of school curricula. Last week Sister Jacqueline joined the growing number of U.S. nuns (TIME, Jan. 13) who have abandoned the convent. With the approval of St. Louis' Joseph Cardinal Ritter, she is leaving the Sisters of Loretto after 18 years. At their request, however, she will remain president of Webster-which, if Rome...
Another alternative more likely at this point, would be to change the name of Arch Sci to Environmental Studies, while keeping the Visual Studies program technically discrete. The two fields would then gradually alter their curricula to prepare for a later merger...
...hands of Dr. Robert H. Ebert, Dean of the Medical School. The report will be released in the fall and members of the Med School Faculty will discuss its recommendations. In a speech delivered last winter, Dr. Ebert set forth his ideas on Medical School curricula and indicated the direction changes are likely to take. Excerpts of the speech are printed below...