Word: programing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...counter arguments for moving the requirement to the freshman year are convincing. The required course is remedial--and should be part of the freshman program by the same logic that puts Expository Writing 10 there. The best time to build on any earlier language training is during a student's first year, before he has forgotten all he learned in secondary school...
...have been a source of discontent, so has the lecture-exam rote system of instruction. The idea has long been abandoned that a three-hour exam teaches a student more than a term paper or is more conducive to instilling a genuine interest in the material. The freshman seminar program, small-group instruction such as independent studies, and tutorial were introduced as alternatives to the lecture system--and with overwhelming success and popularity. But these programs all started in the 1950's and have expanded little since. Financial considerations have limited their growth, but if a professor is sufficiently convinced...
Instead of seeking greater flexibility some departments are doing quite the opposite and are trying to drive out "dabblers" by raising concentration and honors requirements. The College's lack of a respectable alternative to the Honors program, increased course and departmental requirements, and graduate schools' emphasis on grades, all are contrary to a liberal education. Departmental semiautonomy blocks changes in this system--sometimes even if the Dean personally favors such a move. It is upon the Departments that students should exert more constructive pressure...
When a person so powerful presents a program, the Faculty will balk only when it believes something is truly wrong. The Dean is paid to formulate, deliberate, and administer educational policy; the Faculty is usually indifferent and instead concentrates on its own research and instruction. The Dean is thus always better prepared for debate than his opponents, but it also means that the strident objections of a minority of active Faculty powers can have an exaggerated amount of power. For example, in last fall's two regular Faculty meetings, only 185 of the 700-man Faculty attended one meeting, while...
Parents of Pacific students-most of them affluent Palo Alto professionals-are generally enthusiastic about the school. Educators acquainted with its program are cautiously willing to concede that in some ways it represents a healthy experiment. Berkeley Psychologist Norma Haan thinks Pacific is "realistic about the problems that today's teen-agers and their parents face." Children who merge from such a free school tend to be behind in factual knowledge, she notes, but they catch up quickly because "they are better able to interpret what they read." They also get a lot of adolescent rebelliousness out of their...