Word: noncredit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although chartered as a university, the New School has no science labs, no college clubs, no athletic teams. What keeps New Yorkers coming to its three-building, modern "campus" in Greenwich Village is an ever-changing curriculum that is almost as contemporary as a daily newspaper. Its smorgasbord of noncredit classes ranges from "The Art of Singing Folk Songs" to the crassly commercial "What the Editor Wants: Media Placement in Public Relations." In the spring of 1965, the New School ran a course on the Warren Commission findings; this term it has a continuing series of lectures on the Viet...
Collegiate Hero Paul Goodman (Growing Up Absurd) conducts a graduate course in higher education at the New School, while waiting in the wings to join the staff is National Review Editor William Buckley. Next fall he will teach a noncredit course on "Issues and Problems of the City: a Conservative View...
Evolving Developments. Some of the fellows also turn teacher twice a month, hold noncredit seminars for undergraduates. Kuchel's former aide, Stephen Horn, for example, recently held one on the Republican Party, enlisted G.O.P. Strategists F. Clifton White and Malcolm Moos to help out. The institute's faculty, most of whom hold professor- ships in other Harvard departments as well, also conduct action-oriented studies, such as an 18-month probing of "evolving developments in Europe," headed by Adam Yarmolinsky, a one-time Pentagon and poverty aide who fell out of favor with Lyndon Johnson...
Siltzer has also announced that he plans to sponsor an informal noncredit seminar on dramatic criticism, to be held at the Loeb next fall...
...worried about the credit question. "We already have the students with talent and time. They don't need credit, they need guidance. "He suggested a parallel to the Nieman Fellows program. As Levin conceives of them, the fellows in theatre would "consult" informally with students and conduct noncredit seminars...