Word: monro
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dean Monro's proposal to put non-Honors tutorial under supervision of the General Education Committee is at once a marriage of convenience and a major step in educational policy. The utility of placing the new program under an existing interdepartmental administrative committee was clear to the Masters, but the real opportunity presented should not be obscured by the burdens which will be imposed on the Committee...
Although the Masters this week approved Dean Monro's tentative plan for non-Honors tutorial, it is the departmental chairman, rather than the masters, who will make or break the proposed program. The Departments are already short of manpower, and it will be difficult to find the additional teaching hours required for a non-Honors program...
When the Faculty voted on May 6, the CEP had eliminated even this pious hope, and its final report stated that "no department is required to provide tutorial instruction" for non-Honors juniors. This fall, however, Dean Monro took an active concern "on behalf of the whole College," and suggested a voluntary, graded half-course running throughout the year "as part of the communications network between the student and his House...
Since then, discussion of the non-Honors program has revolved around the question of House or Departmental control of the program. The CEP statement did not make clear who should run the programs, but Monro's report throws a new light on this issue...
...Monro will present his proposals in more specific form, to the CEP and then to the Committee on General Education and the Faculty. As Perkins pointed out, approval by the Masters "represents only the first step toward the eventual adoption of the non-Honors program...