Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there is now "a substantial number of medical stu dents who don't put economics above everything else. These young people want to find in their profession a social commitment as well as a decent living. These kids are marvelous. They're even beginning to force changes in the curriculum...
...committee, which is advisory to the Biology department's Faculty, will consider significant course and concentration requirement changes. "This is a unique opportunity for students to take positive action in determining their own curriculum," Abraham S. Flexer, assistant professor of Biology, said...
Winslow R. Briggs '51, committee chairman, last night suggested possible changes in curriculum, including the elimination of enrollment limitations in lower level courses and greater diversity in required choruses. "The committee will probably submit a list of considered recommendations to the department's Faculty no later than mid-March," Briggs said...
...students will hear and give testimony in addition to soliciting ideas on the role students might play in decision-making. At the first meeting of the committee of Friday, decision-making on curriculum and student life will be discussed...
THOUGH MR. BARZUN answers that Columbia and other American universities are worth saving, at least he asks the question. Not even the New Left surpasses for depth or length his attacks on the wasteful process of a Ph.D., the petrified curriculum, and the shabby teaching which disfigure higher education. For the most part, he suggests, the student's presence in school has no other purpose than a ritual one. The teaching university has become the training university, and, in its attempt to be modern, has lost the cohesion of a real institution. Bureaucracy and angling for promotion has replaced amiable...