Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After two weeks of churning disorder, as black militants campaigned for changes in curriculum and admission policy, San Francisco State College President Robert R. Smith reluctantly closed his campus down (TIME, Nov. 22). Last week, convinced that he was not the man to reopen the college, Smith resigned. Named to replace him as acting president was Professor Samuel I. Hayakawa, 62, an internationally recognized expert not in administration but in general semantics, the study of the interrelationship of language, thought and behavior...
...future, ROTC will have the option of offering its courses outside the regular curriculum like a "Free University" or of persuading the regular academic departments to give courses that students can take to fulfill ROTC requirements...
...what one Pikeville senior proudly calls "the only right-wing student protest movement in the country" is against the progressive policies of Thomas Johns, 37, a former Little All-America football tackle (Hanover College, 1953) who became president 19 months ago. Johns hired 30 new teachers, put a new curriculum emphasis on sociology and psychology, secured federal grants so that students can work in local antipoverty projects, and instituted compulsory courses on contemporary issues. He has appointed students to faculty and trustee committees, urged them to get involved in such local issues as water pollution, strip mining and illiteracy...
...Arkansas lower court agreed with the biology teacher. But the state's Supreme Court reversed that ruling in 1967, holding that the law was a "valid exercise of the state's power to specify the curriculum in its public schools." In last week's decision, the U.S. Supreme Court avoided entirely the issues of states' rights and freedom of speech. Since the Arkansas statute allowed the teaching of only the Biblical version of man's beginnings, ruled the court, it was clearly part of an "establishment of religion" by the state. The decision was written...
...While the law requires that ROTC courses be included in the Harvard curriculum and be prescribed and conducted by the Secretaries of the Military Services, the Army contracts alone specifices that the Military may prescribe and conduct their courses only with Faculty approval...