Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...already had their families before coming to Radcliffe, motherhood proved no obstacle. The first during her College career managed three children, her curriculum, had a GI husband; the second managed one child, the curriculum, and the husband. Both received cum laude degrees...
...head of the General Education program during its trial years, Professor Wright made the program so successful that last year the Faculty went right down the line with his final recommendations--to make the program a permanent and increasing part of the College curriculum. He guided what might have become a rambling and ill-organized group of courses through the years when a determined segment of the Faculty was dead against G.E.; he left the program vigorous and expanding...
When slim, brown-haired Martha Lucas took over the presidency of Virginia's Sweet Briar College for women in 1946, she announced that she would "promote world awareness in every possible way." She planned new instruction "on the Orient, Russia, South America," a broad curriculum which would include "the intellectual experience of the whole of mankind." Sweet Briar soon learned that President Lucas was a woman deeply concerned about the world...
...Commission said: "State laws requiring special oaths for teachers, or laying down detailed prescriptions for the school curriculum, or establishing uniform tests and criteria of loyalty impair the vigor of local school autonomy and thus do harm to an important safeguard of freedom in education...
These suggestions add up to a full-time course for credit and such a course should be required for many graduate degrees, because the majority of professional people in the academic world go into teaching, not research. The present graduate curriculum creates a frame of mind often specialized and sophisticated to an ingrown stage, not oriented to teaching--which requires simplification and work with unmotivated students...