Word: meyerson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...problem is how to get neighborhoods within that city-otherwise you have loneliness and anonymity." Most major universities are working on ways to create those neighborhoods, such as "the cluster college" pattern of California's Santa Cruz campus, the "living-learning" units at Michigan State, and Meyerson's attempt to create "centers of identification" at Buffalo...
...Meyerson encourages his provosts to sign up nonspecialized instructors who fit no departmental niche but may be top flight teachers. Reaching outside normal academic ranks for his provosts, Meyerson picked former Harper's and Horizon Editor Eric Larrabee to head the faculty of Arts and Letters...
...handle Buffalo's bright students (more than 85% of this year's freshmen are from the top fifth of their high school class), Meyerson is planning 20 subordinate nondegree colleges for commuters as well as residents. Each will have its own master and will offer courses and social activities appealing to students of a particular lifestyle. At the moment, 21,735 students are crowded onto Buffalo's old 178-acre campus, and enrollment is expected to reach 41,000 within six years. That is no problem. S.U.N.Y. is about to build an entirely new 1,200-acre...
...committee headed by Prof. Frederic Tubach that proposed allowing the student president to speak at Academic Senate meetings and putting three students on an Academic Senate committee. And it was also the faculty who appointed the Muscatine committee on educational reform-at the suggestion of then Acting Chancellor Martin Meyerson, in March 1965, six months before Heyns took over at Berkeley...
...wants to be working in the tomorrow of education," adds Financier Norton Simon, "and tomorrow is already here at Berkeley." Faculty members are impressed by Heyns's demonstrated emphasis on teaching at Michigan, consider him as open to new ideas as was Meyerson...