Word: whitla
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dean K. Whitla, associate director of admissions, codes this information computer use and spins out a computerized "docket" listing each candidate's name, his ranking from readers and school officials, test scores, race and alumni connections. When each case is considered in committee, only the official presenting it will have the file, but every one has the docket in front of him, supplying him with hard numerical information about the applicant...
...most simplistic level, it is difficult to comprehend how such segregation will promote increased integration of freshmen for sophomores) into the University as a whole, a goal articulated repeatedly by such persons as Dean K. Whitla. On the contrary, I feel that such a plan would only exacerbate the problems which already exist in the all-freshman Yard as presently constituted...
...Gilbert, "the present house system integrates sophomores in the only meaningful sense; it places them in full social contact with students of other classes." The "special efforts which Dean Pipkin envisions as necessary if all sophomores were to live in the Yard are not now required. The Whitla-Pinck report, Perspectives on the Houses at Harvard and Radcliffe, states, "No student ought to live in a House merely for the sake of bed and board and to study and enjoy his university life elsewhere." This has been the chief virtue of the House system since its inception...
...Dean K. Whitla, director of the Office of Instructional Research and Evaluation, said yesterday that the survey is timely because it focuses on three or four issues on which decisions will be made by the Faculty Council and other groups in the near future. Whitla helped compose the questionnaire...
Dean Pipkin's Faculty Council subcommittee on calendar reform will examine the survey's findings before it reports to the council, Whitla said...