Word: clustering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...simplest and purest execution of the "cluster" concept will be tried at the 15,000-student Florida State University in Tallahassee, where 240 freshmen-a tenth of the entering class-will be randomly divided into eight groups. Each group of 30 will take basic courses together, sharing the same assignments and teachers. The rest of the class will be assigned in the normal unpatterned way so that the attitudes and academic achievement of the two groups can be compared...
Planning for clusters is also under way at the University of Kentucky, which expects 1,500 of its students to take 80% of their freshman and 60% of their sophomore courses in residential colleges housing both students and classrooms. Indiana University is considering a proposal to create one residential college a year and ultimately cluster two-thirds of its students. The University of Michigan, which already assigns some classes by dormitory groups, next year will open its first residential college to 250 freshmen, who will all take a common core program of liberal arts, later move to a new campus...
Headed for Megalopolis. Universities that have pioneered the cluster concept seem pleased with their progress. Wayne State University's Monteith College started the current trend in 1959. The University of the Pacific, which opened its first "college within a college" in 1962, will have three by next year. Two new campuses of the University of California, those at Santa Cruz (TIME, May 13) and San Diego, are building from scratch on the cluster principle. The University of Massachusetts teaches 60 sections of freshman and sophomore courses in its two-year-old Orchard Hill residential complex; freshmen at the University...
...cups his harmonica against the microphone and sends a wild, keening cluster of notes soaring over the surging rhythms like gulls over an angry sea. Crammed around tables in front of the bandstand, the listeners-mostly working-class Negroes, down-and-outers and hustlers-stomp their feet, and shimmy in their seats. "Tell it, boy!" they shout. "That...
...Today, 40 members of Parliament are Jews, as well as 61 knights and 20 peers of the realm. Although Jews are expected to congregate at their own country clubs, there is comparatively little overt anti-Semitism in Britain-one of the few nations where Jews were never forced to cluster together in ghettos...