Word: fcc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...faculty plans to constantly meet with students about curriculum, and let them have a major voice as to what is offered. But many feel, as Farner does, that FCC has a real obligation to try new things, and so they are hoping that in time, stu-students will accept the innovative courses...
...second difficulty--and possibly a more significant one--is the lack of preparation that many students are bringing with them to FCC. For them, the college has set up a skills center, which offers non-credit classes in reading, as well as in effective studying and thinking. In the near future, courses in remedial math will also be offered...
WITH their college education, FCC students will be better able to work in the Washington community, and this kind of activity is being encouraged at FCC. An act of Congress made the college a land-grant institution, the first such college in the country to be urban-oriented. College officials and students met with community leaders all summer to try to arrange cooperative programs--things like adult classes, and workshops and institutes and such...
...college will try to employ community people and students wherever possible and plans to continue looking for ways to work with and for the community. One suggestion that seems to be highly considered is using FCC faculty members and students as advisers to the community on various topics...
...emphasis at FCC is on serving the community as much as serving the students. The campus, when it is built, will be "no different from the rest of the community," according to Morris Kandle, FCC vice-president for finances and administration. "When a person walks onto our campus," he said this summer, "we want him to feel as if he is walking through his community, that he is not walking into some ivory-towered academic factory." For this purpose, FCC has hired a firm of black architects who have had experience in urban planning and development...