Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ability to make the sort of broad decisions that modern business demands. What training would give him that ability? In 1952 Gillen took his problem to the University of Pennsylvania (where he got his B.S. in 1923), and gradually campus and company began to work out a curriculum. The university set up a special Institute of Humanistic Studies for Executives, in 1953 enrolled its first students from seven different Bell companies. By last week, having "graduated" 17 Bellmen and enrolled 19 more, the institute felt that it had enough evidence to pronounce the Bell experiment a success...
Under the plan adopted by the University last year, the summer-camp period would be extended to 12 weeks, and the classroom curriculum would be reduced from four to three years...
...plan itself, as drawn up by committee of nine faculty members headed by McKay, attempts to "liberalize" the ROTC curriculum, and make it conform more to College standards...
...program, announced Wednesday by Dean Francis Keppel '38, provides for actual teaching practice as a part of the regular Education School curriculum. Candidates for the plan will be specially selected from graduates of ten Massachusetts colleges...
...Seminar is conducted on a graduate school level, offering courses on American politics, literature, law and sociology to 350 students from thirteen European nations. The school year is divided into six weeks, and gradual additions to the curriculum are made from year to year. Last year, for instance, Chafee and four other professors from the Law School initiated the session devoted to American Legal Though and Institutions...