Word: curricularly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hastie, a leading Negro jurist and former governor of the Virgin Islands. As he sees it, the law's real aim is not to promote the general welfare but to save parochial schools. Wrote Hastie: "When the state reimburses a sectarian school for any part of the curricular costs of a teaching program, it directly finances and supports a religious enterprise. Constitutionally, such subsidizing of a religious enterprise is not essentially different from a payment of public funds into the treasury of a church." The fact that such aid incidentally relieves the state of the burden of educating more...
...Curricular reforms-even fairly drastic ones-may not really affect the interests of many, perhaps most. Faculty members. As long as they can continue to work with the students who interest them-the dedicated upcoming economists or biologists-a large number of Faculty members probably wouldn't care where the remaining students majored: in a department, General Studies, or wherever...
Even if the Faculty now seems generally receptive to curricular reform, however, a coalition of particular interests and general apathy could still spell the doom of specific proposals unless they gather significant momentum-particularly among Faculty members-before they come to the Faculty as a whole. Thus, one test of the overall Faculty response will be the attendance of Faculty associates who attend the initial House meetings on curricular reform. If their participation is high-in other words if many associates wean themselves away from the departments to the Houses-the chances for curricular reform may be bright indeed...
Though the politics of curricular reform look initially encouraging, there are probably definite economic constraints to reform. May devoted only one paragraph to the costs of education among his pages of questions about it, but the paragraph is an important one. It asks the House proposals "to be realistic, in the sense of at least giving consideration to cost differentials among alternative proposals." While May did not say so, it seems probable that the funds available for undergraduate instruction can only be shuffled around, not significantly increased, in an era when the Faculty is already running a hefty deficit...
...Curricular reform faces one other obstacle. If the political atmosphere of the University heats up and students. Faculty, and administrators find it necessary to manage one crisis after another, the time, manpower, and energy needed for the undramatic but vital job of reshaping the College's educational system just might not be forthcoming...