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...cent tuition increase at Brown, announced last week by financial vice-president Paul Maeder, constitutes the largest percentage rise among the five schools...
...Maeder, who said in a news release last week that Brown will continue to cut expenditures despite the $400 tuition increase, met with the Brown student caucus last night to explain the hike...
Finally, in December, President Heffner appointed an extraordinary nine-member committee- headed by associate provost Paul F. Maeder- with a mandate to propose changes in educational philosophy and practice to the Faculty. Magaziner, Miss Friedman, and Friedel were named to the group, as was Eckelmann, an associate dean of Pembroke, and three professors...
...Maeder Committee published its Interim Report last April 10, and the faculty set May 5 for debate on its recommendations. The Report endorsed the Modes of Thought program, and the dropping of the old distribution system; but as a concession to anticipated faculty opposition, it included a requirement that all freshmen take at least a year's worth of MOT courses in each of the three areas of Humanities, Sciences, and Social Sciences, as well as a semester of math...
...Maeder Report did not meet with universal approval. One faction of the faculty opposed the emphasis put on the student's "self-realization" in the statement of educational principles, which followed closely the Magaziner formulation. Another faction thought the MOT proposal too ambiguous. The managing editor of the Brown Daily Herald warned that "without a strict grading system, very little academic work would be accomplished." The reformers, he wrote, "have greatly overrated the real concern of the undergraduate at Brown...