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General Education is gradually getting ready to take on its big, new role in undergraduate instruction. Last week the University announced the appointment of the first full professor and five assistant professors in GE. This means that when the Faculty's new program for guided distribution and compulsory GE starts working next fall, GE will claim half the teaching time and will pay (out of its own budget) half the salaries of the six recent appointees. With a core of teachers it can call partially its own, GE will be able to plan its future with confidence and competence...
Three of the new appointees have been working in the Natural Sciences section of the present GE program, two as lecturers and one as an instructor. Cohen gives Natural Sciences 3, Holton is an assistant in Natural Sciences 2. and Professor LeCorbeiller teaches Natural Sciences 1--all courses in the "Principles of Physical Sciences...
Simultaneously Provost Buck revealed the selection of the following five assistant professors in GE: I. Bernard Cohen '37, Richard N. Frye, Gerald J. Holton, Daniel H. H. Ingalls '36, and John Sawyer...
...only previous permanent assignment to GE came through the division of Associate Professor Samuel H. Beer's appointment between the Government and the General Education Departments...
...first proposals for GE contained in "General Education in a Free Society," suggested that in the areas of humanities and social sciences, one particular course would be required of all students. In that program, only one distribution course would have been permitted in the area of concentration...