Word: programer
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...subject they were generally ignorant of, the countryside. At their best, the pastoral poets created extremely allusive, elegant verse; at their worst, they produced tedious doggerel. It is on the latter that Belgrader and his company choose to gaze--as an anthology of bad pastoral included in the program forewarns...
...curriculum for public television. A coalition of eleven Midwestern schools, including the universities of Nebraska, Missouri and Iowa, has started the University of Mid-America, based in Lincoln, Neb., which offers a handful of college credit courses on public "television, and seeks public support for a full-fledged degree program...
Most consortium courses use TV tapes and textbooks prepared in England for the U.K.'s respected and successful Open University, an off-campus program that has enrolled some 200,000 students since it began a decade ago. A joint undertaking with the British Broadcasting Corporation, the Open University has inspired counterparts in 16 countries, including West Germany, Costa Rica, Spain and Sri Lanka...
Some proponents see vast possibilities for the program. Says the Broadcasting Center's director of development, Richard Smith: "If several hundred students enroll now through seven colleges and succeed, it would be logical for 100 colleges to be enrolling some thousands of students...
...through the pure power of the mind "are rooted in the essential core of our cosmic existence." Now it seems they will be rooted also in the groves of academe. Mishlove, 34, a former radio personality who spent seven years doing research in Berkeley's individual disciplinary doctorate program, has been awarded a Ph.D. in parapsychology by the University of California at Berkeley. It is believed to be the first doctorate in parapsychology ever granted by an accredited university in the U.S. The degree has also stirred considerable campus controversy, which Mishlove describes as "irrational resistance." Berkeley Statistics Expert...