Word: programing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tidal wave of reform at the school of Education. The Faculty had voted to fund the studies of minority group students, fifty of whom were recruited by late May. Dean Theodore R. Sizer received a comprehensive mandate from the Faculty for reforming the Ed School's urban program, and with tradition everywhere in retreat, groups of dissidents from all programs began yelling for reforms, many totally unrelated to the revolution in the nation's streets...
This fall, many reformers are still waiting for the wave to break. In its own quiet way, the Ed School has begun a genuine program of change. But as Sizer puts it, "it's not revision, it's evolution." The Ed School's upheaval subsided in the face of some very old problems: the need to balance action programs with academic inquiry, and lack of money...
...Whitten continued, many Ed School courses were lacking in "relevance" -- a dainty way of saying that the school was not paying enough attention to studying urban problems or preparing its graduates to teach in urban schools. The report recommended that an ad hoc committee begin formulating a new program of urban studies, and further, that the school establish a new "criterion of intellectual vigor." Specifically, the authors felt that students interested in field work should be encouraged to work with community educational agencies and other educational groups and should be given credit and supervision. Professors had long resisted this suggestion...
...Turning over present Harvard housing to the community would only force more students and faculty to live off-campus and would thus increase housing shortages in the City. (A resolution had asked Harvard and M.I.T. to turn over 25 per cent of their housing to the Leased Housing Program--a project to provide low-rent housing to senior citizens...
News of the 72 per cent reduction in the international student exchange program, which broke yesterday in the New York Times, did not come as a shock to Fox, however, who cited the growing opposition in Congress to such projects...