Word: broads
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Retain the concept of concentration as "the focal point for a student's ... educational experience," but allow students to devise (in consultation with an appropriate member of the faculty) their own concentration programs centered on either a discipline or a "problem ... or broad question...
...have no plan at present to move them out," Paul Gray, associate provost of the Institute, told reporters after the faculty meeting last night. "I think the group will recognize that they do not have broad support and will decide to leave...
Last April, while this campus was caught up in the conflict between students and the University's administration, students and administrator at another Ivy League college were working together to effect broad and significant educational reforms, so that Brown University now has, in many respects, what it proudly calls "the most flexible and progressive undergraduate curriculum to be found in any major American university today." Its faculty debated curriculum reform for three consecutive days. Before it adjourned, it decided to take a major first step toward abolishing all grades. It also abolished "distribution" requirements, reduced the number of semester courses...
Many of the students know ideally what they want: "a broad-minded state, tolerant, and progressive," as one student described it to me. They generally know what they do not want: "Stalinist monotheism and mythology in our political life...
...themselves above the activist approach. I spent some time with the bearded director of Problemi in his modest Ljubljana office. He described himself as a "political nihilist, not interested, and not searching for feasible solutions." He admitted that most journals of this sort are too intellectual to have a broad-based appeal...