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Finally, in December, President Heffner appointed an extraordinary nine-member committee- headed by associate provost Paul F. Maeder- with a mandate to propose changes in educational philosophy and practice to the Faculty. Magaziner, Miss Friedman, and Friedel were named to the group, as was Eckelmann, an associate dean of Pembroke, and three professors...
...number of students enrolled in independent study has increased to more than 300- a tripling compared to the preceding semester, according to Eckelmann. More than a dozen groups of students are pursuing independent research in Group Independent Study Projects. One G.I.S.P. is studying "Revolution...
Like many students, Eckelmann worries about the response of graduate schools to what Brown has done. He says he is confident, however, that these schools will soon be putting greater emphasis on letters of recommendation and on the results of the Graduate Record and other standardized admissions examinations...
...Eckelmann could have said as well that Brown was fortunate in having administrators who accepted student initiatives as legitimate and who took students' concerns seriously. Almost from the start. Brown's administration helped students push reform through an often disinterested and sometimes suspicious faculty...
...group did not finish its work that spring, but the effort did not stop at the end of the term. Dean Eckelmann found $800 to support Magaziner during the summer of 1967 as he worked at rewriting and duplicating parts of what he modestly called "A Draft of a Working Paper for Education at Brown University...