Word: weimer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WEIMER K. HICKS President Kalamazoo College Kalamazoo, Mich...
Kalamazoo's plan is an ingenious answer to the economic problems faced by small colleges as enrollment explodes in the 1960's. "We cannot justify letting these facilities stand idle three months a year," says Princeton-educated President Weimer Hicks, 52. "Summer vacations are simply a throwback to the days of an agrarian society." Moreover, says Hicks, year-round college is sound academically: "Is it right for the minds of our students to lie idle three months a year...
Most smaller colleges now try to attract students from a wider geographic area, notably from the big Eastern cities and suburbs. Says Kalamazoo's Princeton-educated President Weimer K. Hicks: "The sooner people in the East lose their provincial outlook on college education, the sooner we can ease up the so-called admissions jam." Pittsburgh's Chatham College prides itself on nurturing diversity and "intelligent nonconformity" among students; President Edward D. Eddy Jr. suggests that a student candidate's having backed some "unpopular but worthwhile cause" is a good qualification for admission...