Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...indications were clear last week that the University is finally planning a Center of International Studies, after years of indecision have fostered continuing weakness in the curriculum of this vital area. Who will head such a Center, how soon it can be completed, and what form it will take are important questions that are largely undecided, but it seems that the principle of expanding the International curriculum has finally been accepted over strong opposition...
...sweeping changes are contemplated in the plans of this institute for graduate study and post-doctoral research. Presumably financed by a foundation grant, the Center would be headed by a director whose main function would be to synthesize a strong degree curriculum from functioning graduate and departmental programs. At the same time, the Center would contribute to meeting an acute need for new courses and personnel at the undergraduate level as well, as more instructors in the area of International Relations would be brought to Cambridge and a tighter study plan could be developed for the undergraduate concentrator...
...Faculty stressed the fact that Columbia's qualifications for admission would not be changed as a result of the greater enrollment. The present requirements of the college's curriculum and general education program will also be maintained...
Along with an expansion in the graduate program, new courses and additional personnel are needed to strengthen the undergraduate curriculum, Mason said...
...Senator (and candidate for governor) Price Daniel, offered to turn his church buildings into an all-white school if integration should be forced upon Dallas' public schools. "While correcting the evil of integration," said Pastor Daniel, "we also plan to correct several other evils." Items in the proposed curriculum: condemnation of the United Nations and "oneworld ideology," presentation of evolution "as a damnable heresy and not as scientific fact...