Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under the present arrangement, work in tutorial receives no formal grade other than the tutors' recommendation of honors, pass or fail. In view of tutorial's growing importance in the curriculum, the committee is reviewing whether a need exists for a more definite scale of accomplishment...
...glad, unquestioning hand marks Brown's social attitude, it is with integrity and experimental dedication that it approaches its curriculum. Almost unheralded, President Wriston introduced in January, 1953, a set of courses in the Identification and Criticism of Ideas, which he calls, "the exciting thing in education in America today...
Brown administrators point to the indication of IC's success: in the two years since the courses' injection into the curriculum, freshman fatalities have dropped from ten percent of the class to five, and library circulation has increased 30 percent. Commenting on this healthy effect, Wriston says, "Improved standards make for increased pride. Therefore the students work for and get higher grades...
GSAS, then, is to a great extent personified by is scholarly curriculum. Nevertheless there are marked lines of cleavage among faculty and students on the purpose of graduate education. There is, however, an official orthodox view of the function as they see it applicable in their fields...
...Turks are studying not only the Business School's courses, but the School itself. They are learning the case method of instruction, report writing, and the library system, and are attempting to formulate a curriculum based on Harvard's, but applicable to Turkish economy...