Word: shinagel
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...Harvard can really play a significant role nationally in continuing education--it has to," he says. Shinagel is presently working on a five-to ten-year planning proposal for the school, but has undertaken a substantial amount of innovation already. His biggest plans are for a new Center for Continuing Education slated to open next year, a proposal that will allow the school to bring in people to teach in non-credit seminars and innovative programs such as "Preventive Medicine" and "Professional Bridge" that wouldn't normally be acceptable under Faculty auspices, the introduction this year of a Certificate...
...Shinagel, a tutor in Eliot House in the early '60s and an associate director of the Office of Graduate Career planning from 1959 to 1964, left the chairmanship of the English department at Union College to assume his present post. He is charged with reorganizing and overseeing all of the Faculty's continuing education activities. But he brings a special commitment to the public education idea as embodied in the Extension School, to which he devoted half of his time last year...
...Shinagel would also like to expand enrollment to fully cover heating and other maintenance costs for classrooms now subsidized by the Faculty, something he hopes will be helped by the new Tuition Assistance Plan for Harvard employees and an advertising campaign. But there are limits to expansion, and Shinagel wishes to avoid alienating other schools in the area who fear competition from Harvard's low-cost program, the least expensive in the Boston area...
...Shinagel is disappointed that continuing education and the Extension School aren't being considered in the Task Force evaluations in progress. Harvard "should not divorce itself from realities," he says, "the Task Forces are lacking in peripheral vision." But he sees the need for a "sense of timing," and is waiting to see what the Task Forces come up with before pressing his case. The faculty was torn apart by the events of the late '60s, he says, "it has yet to re-define itself in the sense of mission. Whether the Task Forces will achieve this...
...they should have over the years," says Grossman. "The community was not best served. It had been dawning on them for years; they just never did anything about it," he says. "A lot is going to be heard from the Extension School in the years to come," "I think Shinagel brings a real enthusiasm to the program and a knowledge of its direction," Shinagel says...