Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clear whether the joint committee will remain in existence to consider further aspects of History curriculum. Hughes described junior generals as "the most urgent question facing us, demanding action this spring...
...thoughts of a university president these days are no longer limited to such lofty matters as improving the curriculum or such necessary deeds as raising funds. Not with students and drugs to worry about. Last week President John Toll of S.U.N.Y.'s Stony Brook campus ruefully told a joint New York legislative committee on crime that "I've probably talked more about this than any other single topic since I've been president...
Before taking the $40,000 Cleveland post, Briggs demanded the abolition of an outdated troika system, in which three autonomous administrators reported separately to the school board on curriculum, finance and architecture. In a series of conferences with business leaders, he also insisted on assurances of community support, since "I cannot do it alone." Once installed in office, Briggs undertook a massive publicity campaign to bring home to Clevelanders just how bad the schools were. He even walked around town displaying photographic blowups of the stinking, 19th century toilets-open sewage troughs with a waste receptacle at one end-still...
...that was never a live possibility. Ending the requirement would significantly weaken the teaching wing of language departments' graduate programs. Also Dean Ford and others feel that it is vital for Harvard to have a statement supporting the value of language study built into the structure of its curriculum...
...have been quick to pick up the rhetoric of "student power" this year; students are always looking for new ideological styles, and it is easy--and sometimes justified--to leap onto anti-authoritarian bandwagons within the University. But to demand student control over all social regulations and discipline, the curriculum, educational innovations, admissions, and the promotion of Faculty, is absolutely pointless. Even if the majority of a students body were to prefer their energetic peers over administrators as the decision-makers, and even if these students were able to devote full time to the University's government, it is unrealistic...