Word: keppel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...academic year of 1947-48, the Graduate School of Education had an all-inclusive budget of $220,000. Dean Keppel estimates next year's budget to be about $600,000. Thus in the five years Keppel has been Dean, the budget has been expanded almost 300 percent...
According to Keppel, "the School has grown apace. I feel that we're really beginning to go places now," he added. With regard to the size of the School, there have been no basic changes in policy. The Faculty still wishes to maintain a small student enrollment and, so far as possible, to have a student body carefully selected as to personality, interest academic promise, and geographical distribution...
...This equal emphasis on competence in teaching and on understanding of the subject-matter field," Keppel declares, "presupposes a unity of purpose within the University for the preparation of teachers. The courses in the Faculty of Education are designed with this unity in mind and . . . the policies for the degree are established through the active cooperation of scholars in the field of Education and in the academic disciplines...
...Faculty meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences last term, Keppel proposed that the jointly sponsored A.M.T. program be continued. In previous years there had been overlapping and inconsistent legislation by the Faculty towards the program. Provost Buck, with the help of Keppel, codified this legislation, and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted unanimously for continuance. The vote represented a Faculty vote of confidence in the A.M.T. program, and another example of greater cooperation between the two areas at the University...
...Keppel's views on the new program parallel Conant's appeal of 1944 for a "truce among educators," Conant declared, at that time, that "The necessity for good teaching is so obvious as to require no special emphasis in connection with either general education or education for a career. The problem of recruiting the members of the teaching staff and their adequate training is, however, full of difficulties," he added...