Word: students
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...rest of the concerts this week take place in more conventional settings. The Radcliffe Choral Society will perform its fall concert, "Motets, Songs and Graffiti" on Friday at 8 p.m. at Paine Hall, Music Building. Tickets are $1.50 with student ID, and are available at Holyoke Ticket Office or at the door. Oktoberfest 1500 is a festival of "German Song at the Court of Maximillian" performed by the Greenwood Consort with guest tenor Frank Hoffneister. Oktoberfest is offered today at Newton Arts Center, 61 Washington Park, Newtonville, at 8:30 p.m.; on Saturday, at Longy School of Music, 1 Follen...
Kennedy, in his capacity as chairman of the Senate subcommittee on education, arts, and humanities, took testimony at Boston University on the Tuition Advance Fund (TAF) bill, which he is co-sponsoring. The plan calls for federal student loans up to $15,000 for undergraduate education; after graduation, participants would repay 150 per cent of the loan through a salary withholding plan at an annual rate of 2 per cent through their working careers...
...Mary F. Berry, assistant secretary for education at HEW, said that preliminary estimates indicate the TAF will cost nearly one and a half times the projections made by Silber and Kennedy. Berry--who argued with Kennedy over the effectiveness of current student programs--cited an outside analysis estimating the TAF would cost $7 billion a year for 43 years; Silber later said a more likely figure would be $45 billion a year for twenty years...
Although the forces behind curricular reform are fairly universal, the specific solutions offered differ greatly. Most schools undergoing curricular change agree that requirements should be more demanding and the faculties should have more control over a student plan of study. But faculties differ over how many and which areas of study are important and in whether or not to require all students to take specific courses or to let them choose from a selection. Universities also sometimes lack people qualified to teach the courses they want to offer...
...Students play roles of varying importance in educational change. Most schools allow students to serve on committees forming the curricular proposals, but rarely do students initiate any changes. Student reaction to new requirements ranges from annoyance to disinterest to quiet praise. One student at Harper says sarcastically of the proposed requirements there, "Some people are under the impression that this is going to be an Ivy League college someday." A student at Syracuse said his college's plan would lead to a "ridiculous, arbitrary core." But student newspapers at Stanford and Northwestern lauded proposals there...