Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been amazing. The director, John Coffey, has said that 71 percent of the incoming class had indicated that they would like to use the center. As Coffey put it, his hope is to "make students find themselves as students at the skills center before they go to the classroom." He said that he and other faculty members "feared that the D.C. school system had not produced students who could utilize a college education...
...After 12 years in the D.C. public school system," one faculty member said this summer, "many of these kids don't ever want to see a classroom again. But if we make their education relevant, we feel that they will want to learn, and will take part in the teaching process...
...college has junked traditional academic departments and installed a system of wide-ranging integrated courses that bridge the gap between humanities and the sciences. The curriculum concentrates on great ideas rather than an accumulation of facts. The object is to help each student create his own world view, relate classroom concepts to his own life and become what one school official calls "a cultural revolutionary...
Again, geography is a factor. The competing attractions of the exciting metropolitan area, coupled with the housing problems that induce a majority of the faculty to live outside Manhattan, operate as centrifugal forces. Yet the dispirited quality of student life outside the classroom is not beyond the University's power of influence...
...faculty participation in the formulation of University policy and the improvement of student life. The central Administration to which the full burden of the quality of student life is left is not equipped for the duty. Far too few members of the University family are closely involved, outside the classroom, in the constant informal enterprises and discussions by which the values of an academic community are constantly reexamined and those which stand the test are passed on to the next generation...