Word: odegaard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inaugural ceremonies for the University of Washington's new president, Charles E. Odegaard, President Clark Kerr of the University of California last week offered some of the green fruit of his experience: "I find that the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni and parking for the faculty...
...University of Washington, one of the nation's biggest (15,500 students), was getting ready this week to take a look at a distinguished visitor who will also be its new president: Medievalist Charles Odegaard, 47, now dean of the College of Literature, Science and the Arts at the University of Michigan. In choosing him after an 18-month search, the regents expect to change not only presidents but the face of their university...
...Charles Odegaard, who will take over his new job Aug. I, they are sure that they have their man. A Harvard Ph.D., Odegaard arrived at Michigan the same year Schmitz went to Washington. In the next five years, his budget doubled to nearly $7,000,000; the faculty increased from 522 to 797. More important, the already high standards on his campus soared even higher. The classics experienced a renaissance; a stiff science program was put into effect last year, and the honors program was extended to allow bright freshmen and sophomores to strike out on their own. Last week...
...today's students too tightly chained to the textbook and the lecture, too little prodded into original work? Charles Odegaard, dean of the College of Literature. Science and the Arts at the University of Michigan, felt that the answer, when he wrote a special letter to some top members of his faculty in 1955, was yes. "There is a constant threat," he warned his readers, "that our educational practices will be dictated by the lowest common denominator...
Though the university already had a flourishing honors program, Dr. Odegaard felt that something more was needed to encourage the superior student to greater independence. Last week, after long faculty study, the university appointed a director of a sweeping new plan that will relieve selected students of all departmental requirements, allow them to work on their own. One professor said of the plan: "It is conceivable that a superior student could get a degree here without attending a class...