Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...able to initiate a host of new policies. Some of the most innovations came only in round-about ways-- can be traced back to Buck or to the CEP -- which to much the same thing. For example, one of the of the CEP was a possible disintegration of the curriculum because of wartime drain on Harvard . The CEP established a few survey courses the core of a liberal arts education; and out of the on this subject emerged the idea of general education. A committee chaired by Buck was set up to study the ; the committee report...
Most high school seniors thought that they were getting out just in time. Self-appointed critics in the post-Sputnik days said that the United States was "lagging behind" the Russians and advocated a stiffening of the school curriculum and an increase in high school science training...
...program's curriculum has expanded as rapidly as its enrollment. For example next year the Program will offer its first seminar, a study in theories of personality, which will be led by George W. Goethals '43, lecturer on Social Relations...
PRINCETON'S faculty has approved a new regulation allowing the university's departments not to require junior generals. The change was made, officials reported, because some departments felt junior generals merely repeated exams given as part of the regular curriculum, although departments in which part of junior independent work is tested on generals will probably retain them...
...also face a sharp rise in ability-the nation's better high schools are improving so fast that their top graduates are too good for ordinary colleges, and too numerous for the best ones to handle. The favored campuses in particular are hotly debating everything from admissions to curriculum, and a new shape for colleges seems to be in the making...