Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...School of Education, this commitment is not stifling, but the students observe a substantial inconsistency between the goals which the school espouses and the educational process by which these goals are supposedly attained. The Ed School, in accord with the purposes outlined in the Scheffler Report of 1965, proclaims its commitment to training excellent educators who will also be agents of social change. Students accept this goal, but feel that their education is not living...
Dean Ebert appointed this group as a subcommittee of the faculty Curriculum Committee. The critical debate initiated by the second-year experiment undoubtedly encouraged the Dean to begin an investigation of long-needed reforms. The committee, led by Dr. Alexander Leaf, worked over the summer and submitted its report to the faculty last fall. The members tried to re-assess what a medical school should be teaching its students, and questioned the wisdom of allowing each medical department to offer a required course which burdens the student with perhaps irrelevant facts and details. The members recognized that students had differing...
...subcommittee report recommends that broad interdepartmental courses be substituted for the department requirements, courses which will teach the student a method of acquiring medical knowledge and provide him with a general background of essential information. Departments would offer specialized electives to deal with specific problems in depth, the workload of requirements would be lessened, new courses would be offered, and professors would be given a chance to teach small groups...
...Medical School faculty has discussed this report at monthly meetings throughout the year. The recommendations have met with stiff opposition from hospital doctors who teach the two clinical years, and from professors who fear the loss of power and autonomy by the departments. Other faculty claim that the Medical School, as a professional school, should not attempt to offer the flexibility of an academic graduation education. The subcommittee report, if not delayed indefinitely, might emerge from the faculty in a watered-down form which would institute meaningless changes. Attempts at reform by small groups of students and faculty seem stifled...
...English who was shepherding him around the Loeb, Sir Tyrone is said to have asked, "Isn't that the new thriller about de Sade and a lot of French lunatics?" Told that Plebeians was a recent play by Gunter Grass about Brecht, he shook his head, informed sources report, and muttered, "Jumping Jesus. Well, it's good to know it all goes...