Word: fcc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Next year, FCC President Frank Farner, a 39-year-old graduate dean at the University of Oregon, hopes to get funds to take care of almost 5500 students, but it will still be a few years before FCC will be able to accommodate every D.C. high school graduate who wants to attend--which is the college's goal. And it will be a few years after that before FCC will actively be able to go out and recruit students and attempt to teach the large numbers of dropouts, as Farner wants...
...difficulty is that FCC was established and is funded by Congress, and nobody knows how willing that body will be to provide large amounts of money to the college. This year, FCC's operating budget is $4.3 million, but next year the budget request will be significantly higher, as FCC seeks money for construction on its permanent site...
Over 90 percent of the students at FCC this year are freshmen, and, for the first term, at least, the faculty is offering them 11 so-called core courses. There are also a small number of business classes, and various advanced courses of a more specialized nature for the transfer students. The core courses are inter-disciplinary, within the three areas of humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences...
...team of teachers, consisting of a sociologist, an economist, a political scientist, and maybe a psychologist or historian (although history is officially in the humanities at FCC), conduct the courses. The things they planned to stress, one faculty member said in an interview this summer, were things that were directly related to the student's background. The hope is to make students aware of the problems of the ghetto and able to do something about them...
...method of teaching is also different from the traditional approach. There will be no failing grades given at FCC, only two or three shades of "pass." Lectures will be replaced, as much as possible, by secton-type seminar meetings, and when lectures are held, the hope is to make them "happenings" --movies, debates, discussions between students and faculty members, and the like. Innovation is the key at FC, innovation in terms of involving students more in the process of teaching...