Word: programming
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Special Concentrations program would allow students with unusual academic interests to set up individual concentrations or honors programs outside established concentrations. The Faculty has discussed and then postponed the plan twice-once last May, then again October 20. Meanwhile, opponents have been building support to defeat the plan among Faculty conservatives as well as among political liberals in the elite concentrations (i.c., Social Studies) who are afraid the plan might dilute their status. Dean May has been active in the past two weeks assuring departmental meetings that the number of students involved in the program would be very small. This...
...proposal is that neither radicals nor conservatives like it. Radicals (those who believe the educational system needs to be overhauled) object that Special Concentrations is such a minor change that it threatens to act as a concession which preserves a wholly inadequate system. Conservatives object that the program will increase the Faculty's advising responsibilities and require reallotment of some educational resources...
...valuable indicator of the needs of students and the extent to which departments can meet these needs. Information and feedback of this sort is essential before major changes can be enacted or refused; it is impossible to design a grand plan in a vacuum. The Special Concentrations program is an experiment that will supply an objective picture of the current curriculum's flaws, undistorted by the rhetoric of the system's critics or defenders...
...participate in planning changes in their job routines and help decide what new machinery to buy. They can also take company-sponsored courses ranging from English to engineering, either after hours or on company time, and they are encouraged to apply for higher positions. Polaroid officers say that the program has certainly enriched morale...
Many companies are reluctant to embrace new ideas, largely because of the inertia of management in large organizations. Foremen resist any challenge to their authority, and plant managers, who figure that they will be transferred in a couple of years, are reluctant to undertake any long-term program that will not show immediate results. But there is a powerful incentive for top management to press for new ways of doing things. One of the best-known advocates of job enrichment, Industrial Psychologist Frederick Herzberg of Cleveland's Case Western Reserve University, suggests that strikes are often welcomed by workers...