Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Including interested departmental Faculty members as well as elected representatives of the open student meeting, the function of the CUI would be "curriculum evaluation and general department at concerns...
...Robert S. Blacklow, assistant to the dean of the Faculty of Medicine for curriculum, added that "just to make the first offense a misdemeanor doesn't solve the problem. There will be repeaters, so the penalties must continue to be light...
Before proceeding to our specific recommendations, we should perhaps refer again to the general principles which have guided our thinking about the role of students in the governance of the Faculty. As we pointed out earlier, while we believe that the ultimate responsibility for appointments, degree requirements, and the curriculum must lie with the Faculty, we also think that students have a very important role to play in shaping their social and intellectual lives and the interrelations between them. We believe the Faculty should welcome and encourage student suggestions of ways to enrich their educational experience. We think it essential...
...with the university as an institution. The case for vesting faculties with the final responsibility for appointments, curriculum, and degree requirements rests on their professional qualifications and on the fact that they must live with their decisions over many student generations, rather than over a short time span. To emphasize this is not to derogate the abilities or the perspicacity of students, nor is it to reject the need for a student advisory input on the curriculum and related matters through new or improved channels. But faculty and students are not equals in training, knowledge, and experience. To ignore greater...
...offer recommendations bearing on its organization. We have been made aware of a variety of proposals designed to lighten the Dean's burdens. Some, such as those advanced by the Dunlop Committee, would provide him with more functional assistance, to deal with such subjects as budgets, personnel, the curriculum, fund-raising, governmental relations, student affairs, and the like. Others, including one emanating from a member of our Committee, would provide three area Deans (or Associate Deans) for the Humanities, the Social Sciences, and the Natural Sciences, who would serve perhaps on a part-time basis as academic deputies...