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Jacqueline Grennan, L.H.D., former nun, president of Webster College. Articulate and courageous innovator, perceptive teacher, wise counselor in the highest national cabinets, co-searcher in the cause of open-ended truth, you confirm the future of liberal learning...
...their affiliation plans. Marymount will move from Palos Verdes Estates to the Loyola campus, near the Los Angeles International Airport, in 1968. Immaculate Heart, another women's school in Los Angeles, will join the coed Claremont Colleges, which pioneered the cluster-college concept, by 1970. Missouri's Webster College, where President Jacqueline Grennan (TIME, Jan. 20) resigned from the Sisters of Loretto to dramatize her belief in lay control of education, now has 75 men among its 900 girl undergraduates, and its faculty is pushing for full coed status...
Most educators today also see sound psychological reasons for mixed classes. "The mix tones up the give and take, furnishes a broader view," argues Webster College Vice President Joseph Kelly. Vassar's Simpson notes that "the more diversity in background and point of view that comes out in a classroom, the richer the experience." Catholic educators, who have traditionally been wary about the "dangers" of too much sexual intermingling in classes, also concede that coeducation provides students with a sounder basis for marriage. The mixed campus provides a meshing of intellectual and social life in which the boys find...
...first thing Webster did was to fire most of the old guard, the elite who were devoted to the concept of dynamic reading and had stuck by Evelyn Wood from the very start. The franchises were subsequently sold to hard-headed businessmen who knew the value of the penny. "The franchises have been sold very selectively. Of course, these new boys do not have the pioneering spirit of the old teachers, but I guess they don't need it anymore," says Kilgo. In fact, most of the franchise owners cannot even speed read. Kilgo admitted that he has not been...
...second thing Webster did was to institute a policy which guaranteed full refund of tuition if the course did not triple-improve the student's reading. This is the prime factor for the popular success of Reading Dynamics. Since the day the guarantee went into effect, the driving force behind the Evelyn Wood program has been the profit motive...