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Word: curriculum (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...study group is pessimistic about S.F. State-and any other U.S. college headed for the same vortex. The group urges California officials to launch "a thorough review of the whole spectrum of present educational policy, especially as to admission qualifications and content of curriculum." Better communication among the different elements of the college is also vital: "Steps must be taken to bring president, faculty and students truly together in critical periods." Without such reforms, said the group, the future is bleak: "An overriding public opinion may force the conversion of San Francisco State and other colleges into screened and guarded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colleges: Somber Warning | 7/4/1969 | See Source »

...manhandling a single dean. Last month Magaziner delivered the senior class valedictory, collected his magna cum laude degree in an interdisciplinary program called Human Studies, twirled his Phi Beta Kappa key and looked ahead to two years at Oxford as a Rhodes scholar. Brown itself looked ahead to sweeping curriculum changes that might never have occurred without Magaziner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Students: Peaceful Revolutionary | 7/4/1969 | See Source »

...Brown from Lawrence (N.Y.) High School than he began shaking up the university. As a freshman, he persuaded the university administration to abolish the unpopular food-contract system, which forced his classmates to pay an annual rate covering all meals. As a sophomore, he organized a seminar to study curriculum reform. It was so successful that he was paid $800 from the dean's special fund to spend a summer writing up the seminar's recommendations. Result: the 415-page "Magaziner Report," which Harvard Sociologist David Riesman has called "a herculean effort, an impressive document...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Students: Peaceful Revolutionary | 7/4/1969 | See Source »

...well as for Betsy. When the Faculty convened to debate Afro Studies and consider Alan Heimert's strongly worded resolution, Professor Hughes, two-thirds of the way through his term as chairman of the History Department, rose to defend the sanctity of Faculty control over such matters as curriculum and appointment policy. This was the same H. Stuart Hughes who in 1962 ran for the Senate on a plat-form sufficiently unpopular to garner about 6 per cent of the vote, and who was still, when I came to Harvard, the closest thing with tenure to an active radical...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From The End of Four Years | 6/30/1969 | See Source »

Sectionmen in Soc Rel 149 worked on a reply to Roger Brown's request that the course be dropped from the Soc Rel curriculum. The sectionmen said that Brown's move was part of "a long pattern of opposition to the course," and that shifting Soc Rel 149 to the Gen Ed program "would effectively kill...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Until the April Crisis... | 6/12/1969 | See Source »

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