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Subversive Sanctuaries. Fueled by rising enrollment as well as by inflation, U.S. education's demand for more money has grown faster in recent years than anything except the soaring cost of welfare. Even the proliferation of two-year community colleges has hurt universities: the upper-level institutions get more transfer and graduate students, who cost far more to educate than freshmen and sophomores. No quick solution is in sight. To expand lecture classes, many of them too big already, saves money but sacrifices learning. Raising tuition (now almost $5,000 a year at some elite schools) creates another problem...
Hubbard's organization wasn't treated so well in other countries. England refused for a while to admit foreigners coming for upper-level courses. South Africa and Rhodesia refused to admit Hubbard. The state of Victoria, Australia, has outlawed Scientology altogether. Further investigations are pending in New Zealand and England...
...specific plans have been presented yet to identify and exploit new opportunities for graduate education or for professional research. Certainly, though, there are a number of directions in which upper-level work in the social sciences at Harvard could...
...offers some interdisciplinary study in some upper-level Gen. Ed. courses, and the number of these has been increasing steadily in recent years. It offers some interdisciplinary concen-trations- Social Studies, for example. It could offer more...
Students at Brown filled out their programs with elective courses from established fields. There was a flurry of innovation in the '50's with the creation of "Identification and Criticism of Ideas" (IC) Courses and then of University Courses in 1958. The latter were upper-level integrative efforts, and four of them (like "Technology and the Moral Order" and "Conceptions of Man") still survive as part of the school's new curriculum. But the IC Courses-small-group interdisciplinary courses-were not part of the required curriculum, and with ered away...