Word: dropouts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...North Central Associ ation of Colleges and Secondary Schools voted to revoke Parsons' accreditation. The association did not explain its reasons, but other investigators have unearthed evidence suggesting that academic quality is not Parsons' primary goal. A surprising proportion of its students are either transfers or dropouts from other schools, and the colloquial campus name for Parsons is "Dropout U." Although well-paid, many Parsons professors must handle up to 20 class hours a week, and the teacher-student ratio is 1 to 20, compared with 1 to 6 at Harvard, 1 to 9 at Iowa. The association...
Wilson is a Leonardo-haired philosophy dropout from San Francisco State with only two night-school courses in drawing; he is willing to admit that he has taken at least six trips, "before it was illegal, of course." His first foray into bizarre design was his own wedding invitation, worked out in a print shop of which he was co-owner. He followed this with a protest poster against the war in Viet Nam. Both were great hits with the local hippies ("They blew their minds," Wilson recalls), and soon he was being commissioned by rock-'n'-roll...
Depression can so severely curtail the gifted student's academic function- ing that he has to dropout, he continued. "Thus, the intra-psychic gap between his ideal image of self and his real image leads to a gap between his intellectual potential and performance," he said...
...nature of work should be redefined," he said. "Students should be paid for studying, in addition to having free tuition." Such pay would be an inducement to economically-disadvantaged students not to leave school, he said." A 16-year-old dropout who's working and making enough money to buy clothes and look nice on a date won't give that up to go back to school," he said...
...efforts have centered around the fact that Miles has a 25 per cent dropout rate each year because of inadequate high school training in basic skills. "I found that I was putting more and more time into Miles until I reached the point that I could not do that and continue at Harvard," Monro said. "I made my decision to leave last spring," he added, "and gave Harvard a year's notice to arrange for a successor. I couldn't be happier with the man who will be recommended to the overseers as my successor...