Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Chancellor Kimpton announced his briskest reforms to date: appointment of Dean Simpson and complete re-establishment of major studies within the college. The full-size curriculum is likely to command respect at last for the sagging college of the wealthy (endowment: $186 million) university; the new dean already has it. Trim, clip-toned, British-born Alan Simpson went to Chicago in 1946 as a newly demobbed Royal Artillery major. He is now a U.S. citizen, married to an associate editor of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists...
...every fair minded undergraduate, recognizing the work and needs of the Annex, would sympathize with any movement tending to improve its facilities. The work that it has been accomplishing, the increasing number of students and the annual enlargement of its curriculum indicate that the Annex has fast been pushing to the front among our colleges for women. If, by joining the Annex to the University we can advance the cause of broader and more liberal education for women and can place that part of the college in the fore most rank of women's colleges, it is our part...
Indications were clear that a sizable percentage of the Faculty does not feel that all freshmen are sufficiently challenged by the curriculum, and comments showed that there were hopes for more personal Faculty-freshman contact. The freshman advising system was not mentioned at the meeting yesterday...
Most of those questioned agreed that "some, though certainly not all" students in their first year are not being sufficiently challenged by the formal curriculum, and it was added that the present freshman advising system is "no help" in this respect...
Much of the discussion about experimenting with a more stimulating freshman curriculum has centered on two approaches. One has emphasized a greater amount of course work, and has been criticized as "proto-graduate school thinking...