Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many critics fault ROTC on strictly academic grounds. As they see it, such boring trade-school courses as "military staff operations" have no more business being part of the college curriculum than the officer-instructors sent by the Pentagon-who must be accorded the rank and privileges of a full professor-have being part of the faculty. While overlooking the presence of similar non-military courses (accounting, physical education), the critics also tend to forget that universities themselves approve the ROTC instructors, many of whom are rising young officers who take graduate courses on the side. At Columbia, for example...
Track C. The Army is also revising its curriculum to include more academically oriented courses. At eleven campuses, it is now testing an experimental course known as Track C, which uses local civilian instructors to teach cadets in their first two years. In the course entitled "Concepts of Warfare and National Defense," for example, civilians teach the political, economic and geographical aspects while an Army officer expounds on the military side. In addition, the Army has raised the academic credentials of its professors of military science; it now demands that they hold at least a master's degree...
...most efficient way for ROTC to fight the movement to take away its academic credit is to liberalize its curriculum. Instead of asking faculties to accredit military courses, in fact, the Pentagon plans to accredit more academic courses for ROTC, such as economics, psychology and political science. Purely soldierly skills may increasingly be taught at summer camps rather than on campuses. The problem, though, is whether such compromises will satisfy the ROTC's fervent critics. The trouble is that more and more campus idealists seem to view all armies as evil, including armies that defend free societies...
...student-Faculty committee at the Divinity School has released a report calling for extensive efforts to recruit black students and to improve the black curriculum. The school's black student group is planning to reject the report formally in a statement next Monday because they say the committee was not representative of the black students...
...course. Examinations appraise an important skill--the ability to respond to legal problems with speed, accuracy, and endurance, given limited resources and under extreme pressure. They expose to some degree the quantity and quality of a student's preparation, as well as his competence in mastering the first-year curriculum. They also measure such things as how well he feels that day, how well attuned he is to a given professor's expectations, and how well his nerves can adjust to the artificially created tensions for which exam period is famous. Thus the student who has prepared assiduously for these...