Word: sizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fall. So far, however, the record is mixed. The issue of admitting more minority-group students had been decided by the time the report appeared. Because of the Faculty's April vote on recruiting, the entering class of the Ed School this year is 17 percent black, and Sizer, while opposing quotas, expects the percentage to be at least that high in the future...
...this activity has had the active encouragement of Sizer, but it remains a grass-roots effort without central coordination. The result has been a communication problem; with everybody doing his own thing, courses duplicate one another and often fail to fill the crucial gaps in the curriculum. The MAT summer study found the school very strong in the social sciences, but very weak in such areas as the study of teaching methods. Almost all the new courses fall into the category of social science...
...AREAS where the administration had to take the initiative there has been little apparent progress. The Ed School's Faculty Committee on Academic Policy is now considering the report's grading proposal, with no sure indication of when it will make a decision. Sizer's position on tenure is cautious support for the Curle-Whitten report, but the Faculty has not got beyond "discussing" the matter...
Jumping on the Dean and the Faculty for these failures, however, is not quite fair. Sizer is aware of the lack of coordination in the reform movement but feels it's unavoidable. "You don't change universities from the top," says Sizer. "The head is -- to mix a metaphor -- a sort of catalytic traffic cop, giving the nod to some things, stopping others. It's always sloppy and irregular movement on a lot of fronts." Also, for all their shouting last spring, MAT's have been less than hungry for opportunities to work in the field and intern...
Equally important, financial problems have forced Sizer to choose between research projects and programs for training urban teachers. The Ed School has one of the lowest endowments in the University (less than two percent of the University's total), dependent on grants for two thirds of its funds. It runs a perpetual deficit, compounded in the past few years by an expensive project to construct a new library...