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...Kennedy School's Institute of Politics has reshaped its program of non-credit discussion groups to give students more voice in organizing the seminars...
...curriculum, from boring and conventional teaching methods, and from the lack of an effective voice in school policy decisions. Dissatisfaction came to a head in February of 1966 when several ad hoc groups formed to agitate for specific reforms. A group of thirty students asked for two supplementary non-credit seminars on group process and social change, and their request was granted by Dean Sizer. A smaller group began its own study of the problems of urban education, a crucial area which they felt the school was ignoring...
...doctor and has a high opinion of its medical school. His two scholar ships, a National Merit Scholarship and an Illinois State Scholarship, will pay him a total of $2,500 a year. George credits much of his success to Parker Teacher Frank Ragland, who set up a non-credit "special activities" class for 30 students, drilled them on math and vocabulary. "He worked us to death," recalls George. "He also told us how things were opening up for Negro students in universities. We doubted him at first-but everything turned out to be true...
...those at Harvard will work with a Faculty member and medical student at the Harvard Medical School. The rest of the junior program here will be arranged by individual departments. It will include seminars on computer techniques and analysis; research projects in biology, mathematics, and chemistry; tutorial and non-credit course work; and tutorial alone...
Another major change to be considered would revamp the present seminar program -- now non-credit -- into a course for credit given by the University...