Word: placement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Faculty will have ample grounds for argument today when the Educational Policy Committee presents its report. Stimulants for debate are the controversial proposals for advanced standing, a new placement policy, and course reduction. The proposed plan has been hailed as the most significant academic change since General Education; yet, interestingly enough, the College has tried each proposal in one form or another sometime in the past century and a quarter...
Phillip H. Rhinelander '29, Director of General Education, sees the plan for advanced placement as a flexible system which will meet diverse needs. Under the Placement provision, the CEP would allow qualified students to begin in advanced, rather than elementary, General Education courses...
Rhinelander warned, however, against exempting so large a number from the elementary courses that the basic General Education program becomes a burden or penalty. He felt that only a small number of men will be exempted and that each advanced placement case must be considered on an individual basis. "We In General Education will play along with this proposal, if the faculty approves it." Rhinelander concluded...
...proposal to which Bush objects would allow certain students who had been given advanced placement credit in three or more courses to be admitted as sophomores. Bush said this three-year degree would inevitably limit the scope of education because of the number of courses required for concentration and General Education...
...addition to the plans for advanced placement and standing, the CEP report would allow honors concentrators to omit a maximum of two courses from their program in the junior and senior years to leave them free for increased research or general study...