Word: reportedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this still leaves room for pondering in the other fields of the Committee's report. The problems posed by the report may be divided roughly into four large and small categories...
Three-quarters of the nation's 17-18 year-olds are not enrolled in colleges, the report continued. At least half of this group cannot possibly afford a college education for financial reasons, and the proposed program would aid worthy students whose families' incomes are about $3000 or less a year...
...enrollment of veterans declines, federal appropriations under the present G.I. Bill might gradually be diverted to support non-vet students of ability and need, the report suggested...
...area, however, the Committee possibly has called for a bit of needless fretting. "We feel," the report says, "that unless Administration is freed from its preoccupation with an incomplete program and comes to reconsider the more basic questions of personnel and of the incentives to actual learning, General Education may never become more than expensive half success...
First, improvement of the teaching effectiveness of lecturers, advisors, and section men. The report says that the University-College balance is partially at fault, the faculty members have to devote too much time to their specialty and not enough to the undergraduates. If this is correct, perhaps the Administration could insist that all Faculty members devote more of their working hours to the College, as GE instructors already do. Perhaps also the Administration should consider a man's ability to teach as well as to publish when it makes promotions and appointments. And if Faculty members would read the Poskanzer...