Word: hansons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Advanced Standing Program is the faculty's approach of "progressive moderation" toward eliminating some of the disadvantages which a course system for 4,500 students can impose on the more qualified individual. From the Office of Advanced Standing upstairs in University Hall, director Harlan P. Hanson coordinates the four loosely connected plans which make up the program. Each of its facets, early admission, sophomore standing, advanced placement, and course reduction, is intended to contribute to a more challenging program for the student...
...students in the program this semester--the largest groups being in history and literature and social relations--when members of the class of '60 become juniors there will probably be a sizable increase. For the 130 freshmen who qualified for advanced placement this past year were notified by Hanson that they were "particularly eligible" to apply for course reduction if they became honors candidates...
Advanced placement in any field will carry equal weight when Hanson's office makes the final decision on a course reduction plan. Preliminary approval, however, must first be obtained from the head tutor in the department. While holding advanced placement gives one special consideration in the Office of Advanced Standing, is does not theoretically influence the decision of the department. Since Hanson's office is inclined to approve of course reduction programs anyway, the fact that one holds Advanced Placement is not crucially significant...
...professors' ideas of the purpose of course reduction differ as much as their requirements for getting it. In no field need specific achievement be demonstrated afterward, and, as Hanson says, "the departments should be free to grant it whenever they feel working at a three-course rate would be more advantageous to the student than working under the normal load...
...From Hanson's viewpoint the general purpose of the program at present is to encourage the departments to experiment in the hope they find a definite use for the system. The plan is left purposely undefined because the Committee on Advanced Standing is reluctant to establish the outer bounds of course reduction or in other ways limit the prerogatives of the department...