Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...FORCE program is also big (125,000 students in 188 colleges, 1,400 officer-instructors), but operates on a relatively low budget ($13 million). It has been harassed by cutbacks and constant changes in curriculum. The Air Force gives no flight training to undergraduates, instead concentrates on classroom instruction (aerodynamics, weather, Air Force administration), devotes 99 hours to the role of air power and its history. Started in 1947 as a program for ground specialists, the A.F.R.O.T.C. was built up by 1951 to turn out 27,000 officers a year for a 143-wing Air Force. With authorized strength down...
...plan calls for a 12-week summer camp and a cut in College ROTC class room work to three years. The program is outlined in the report which was filed last week by a subcommittee of the Committee on Education Policy formed to study the ROTC curriculum. The changes will be proposed at the next Faculty Meeting early in May. If passed by the faculty, Bundy will then contact the Department of the Army to get military backing. The plan would affect only the Army ROTC...
...this stage of the year, all but the emergency changes in next year's curriculum are known. A list of the proposed changes could easily be mimeographed, and distributed to the House offices. By eliminating the present hit-or-miss technique of the preliminary Study Card, both the student and the Committee on the Choice of Electives could use them to far greater advantage...
Other appointments are: Phyllis La Farge '55, curriculum; John Rubinstein '56, social; Jane Elkind '56, student appointment...
...survey courses to begin at about 1500 A.D. if the institution is conservative, and 1918 if it is not, with a quick flashback to 1917 in order to include the Bolshevik revolution ... If this trend is carried to its logical conclusion we shall indeed not have history in the curriculum, but only social studies which, with luck, will be contemporary civilization, and at worst, predictions of things to come based on statistics of things happening...