Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...misunderstanding of the Rosovsky committee's purpose was an old one. When Ford named the members in April, he merely charged them with "investigating the place" of Afro-American studies in the Harvard curriculum. But members of the newly-formed Ad Hoc Committee said then that they had an informal agreement with Ford that the committee was going to lay the groundwork for an Afro-American department...
...Rhodes Scholar himself, Smith was one of the country's youngest college presidents when he assumed office at the small, Quaker-founded liberal arts school. A determinedly academic president, he shunned the role of fund raiser to concentrate on improving the quality of Swarthmore's faculty and curriculum. When 20 black students staged the current sit-in to dramatize their demands for greater black enrollment and a black studies program, the usually imperturbable Smith began to despair. "We have lost something precious here at Swarthmore," he said, "the feeling that force and disruptiveness are just...
...Liberal Arts College," "ROTC and the US Armed Forces," "A Brief History of ROTC," "Army ROTC Enrollment at Harvard, 1968-69," a position paper by some ROTC cadets, and extract copies of the contract between Harvard and Army ROTC, the current program of instruction, and a revised curriculum concept...
...settled is how this department will be constituted and operated. The black students want a black department to have the right "to hire the faculty to staff this department and to engage "consultants on black culture, art ideology and curriculum...
Smith pointed out, however, that whenever he has gone to high schools to talk to students "I have always interviewed students interested in Harvard and Radcliffe at the same time." The joint interviews, Smith said, "make sense since the curriculum of the two colleges is identical and everyone, women as well as men, graduates with the same Harvard degree...