Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...longer training students for their first jobs," says Dean Courtney Brown of Columbia's business school. "We're trying to develop business minds with adaptability, perception and conviction." Even Harvard business school, the most prestigious of them all, has overhauled its whole curriculum, and next month will graduate the first class taught under the new scheme. Many businessmen agree that a noticeable change has occurred. William B. Murphy, president of Campbell Soup and this year's chief of the Business Council, speaks for many when he contends that "both the quality of the training and the graduates...
Ulich suggested that other schools of education emulate Harvard in inventing a special sequence of courses to "explain the teaching of values." Social sciences and humanities courses should be integrated with the material taught in the traditional "how-to-teach" graduate school of education curriculum...
...where musical organizations were voluntary, extracurricular activities, practical music flourished and had a splendid spirit. People were loyal to their organizations and they worked with them well. Individual performance was often of a very high order. On the contrary, where practical music was accredited as a part of the curriculum, there was apt to be far less enthusiasm, and far less accomplishment and loyalty," Thompson said...
...give adequate recogniton to the teaching skill as well as the research performance of the faculty; how to create a curriculum that serves the needs of the students as well as the research interest of the teacher; how to prepare the generalist as well as the specialist in an age of specialization looking for better generalizations; how to treat the individual student as a unigue human being in the mass student body; how to make the university seem smaller even as it grows larger; how to establish a range of contact between faculty and students broader than...
...undergraduate is in one sense the most radical change at Santa Cruz. To solve the perpetual problems of liberal education, colleges, about twice as large as the Houses, will be created within the university with the power to hire their own faculty, shape and teach their own curriculum. Departmental strength will be seriously circumscribed and the colleges will become the center of political strength within the broader university culture. At Harvard, the college has been losing a defensive war for two decades; at Santa Cruz, the colleges will have necessary prominence. In short, starting from scratch, says Stookey, means that...