Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attention to students, offering a well-balanced program of academic work and extra-curricular activities. Now he finds this is impossible, if not undesirable. A few years ago, he had trouble filling the school; now he has too many applicants. With the resulting selection, he has found that the curriculum of the school has become progressively harder. The well-balanced program and the individual attention are vanishing. In short, the school is no longer any good for a broad range of abilities; it is "specializing to the danger point...
Though the foundation has been working on its program for months, it kept its activities top secret. Last March, when it thought it would have only $50 million to spend, it began sending out questionnaires, asking about faculty salaries, enrollments, curriculum and accreditation. At that time it included one stipulation which was later dropped: that each recipient must raise enough money to match its grant. Then, when the Ford Motor Co. decided to put its stock up for public sale, the foundation realized that it would have assets enough to give an additional $210 million to the colleges, $200 million...
...opening of the ROTC to the freshmen in the spring, Dupuy said, is one result of the new Reserve Forces Act of 1955 and the recent modification of the College's Army curriculum...
...scientist is to find time to accumulate this knowledge, often peripheral to his real interests, close coordination between courses and departments is necessary, the report said. With this coordination lacking in the present curriculum, some students are insufficiently prepared and important material is omitted, it added...
...courses will also be added to the curriculum, Kronauer said. "We have three new courses this fall, and we will add more later if student response warrants it," he said. The new courses are all in applied science, one including field trips to industrial plants...