Word: program
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...this campaign, Federal aid to education has become a substantive issue. The simplest and most lurid reason for advocating such a program is the frightening challenge with which the Soviet Union presents us in this field. As Averell Harriman has observed, however, the United States has an obligation to promulgate social advance without waiting for a prod from Moscow...
...inadequacy of the country's half-hearted construction program is only one aspect of the familiar failures to which Federal inactivity in this area has led. The underpaying of teachers and professors has not only hindered educational progress by diverting able men into more lucrative industry jobs, but was responsible for the low status of pre-Sputnik education...
Berelson said in the report that attempts to inject general education into doctoral studies has been a failure. He mentioned the University's institution and subsequent elimination of a Ph.D. program in Social Science as a prime example. Elder again supported this position. He said that the Social Science program "did not all any need" and that student interest was slight. He said the program was dropped after five years...
...eight students who turned down in this year's sophomore class, chose instead to enter the Freshman seminar Program. According to Wilcox, the other three deferred either because they wanted a year of General Education of because they did not wish to commit themselves to a field of concentration...
Last fall approximately eight of 13 candidates relinquished their sophomore Standing in order to take part in the Seminar program...