Word: hacker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under Dean Louis M. Hacker, the new "School of General Studies" will have everything a campus should have-short of a football team. It will have its own faculty, its own Phi Beta Kappa elections; its degree will rank with those of both Barnard and Columbia College. Though not all students will try for a degree (which has taken as long as 18 years), all must work for credit, and all must earn passing grades...
...Anthropologist Margaret Mead, Novelist-Poet Babette Deutsch) will be guest professors. Wherever their professors come from, the college's 10,000 adult students may be sure of one thing: they will be getting as sound an education as any undergraduate could hope for. It will, says Louis Hacker, be "formal education. We won't teach them how to repair their radios. And if they want to learn about soap sculpture, they'll just have to look somewhere else...
...this set the college to wondering what the eventual outcome of the G. S. experiment will be. It can no longer masquerade as adult education, and is on its way to becoming another college, or part of the original one. Earlier this year, director Louis M. Hacker announced the first course to be given jointly by the college, G. S., and Barnard, which he hoped was "only the beginning in a program of cooperation between the three schools...