Word: select
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...averages often become crucial to entry, and a bright physics student, for example, might shy away from a course in literary criticism that he would love to explore out of a fear that he would not score his usual A or B. A growing practice is to let students select some courses outside their specialties in which their grades are recorded as only "pass" or "fail"; they get credit if they pass, but the course does not count in their grade averages...
Caltech no longer grades its freshmen at all; they either pass or fail their courses. Princeton lets its undergraduates select four courses on a pass-fail basis, as a result has engineers taking art courses. Beloit lets all students ignore their two lowest grades...
...most strongly does encourage "imaginative and original study plans," conducting the first group meeting of the year in such a way that the Fellows are exposed to a dozen different suggestions on how to use the year. The underlying assumption is that the Nieman Fellows are adult enough to select those courses and programs which would best enrich or help them. We do not need or want overt guidance, because this would be the surest prescription for stifling diversity...
...changes in the system of selecting department chairmen, though an improvement on the old method of simply having the president pick a man, still falls short of giving the faculty meaningful control. Now the faculty will be able to select three candidates for the post--but again only those with tenure will be eligible. Then the president will choose one of the three. And in the Philosophy and Theology Department, the president will still hand-pick the chairman...
...Dozen-or a Hundred. Johnson's most ambitious idea would create a "demonstration cities program" to be administered by the new Housing and Urban Development Department. Under this scheme, a city applying for federal aid would select a single blighted neighborhood and submit an overall plan for its rejuvenation. The project would include housing for different income groups and the public health, education, recreation, welfare and transportation services necessary to "change the total environment...