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the graduate level which would
include all requirements in a
Ph D. except a dissertation.
The report rejects “the idea
of teachers who are not also
scholars" but acknowledges a
“danger that deficient perform
ance of teaching is not adequately
recognized and outstanding per
formance given due credit. . . .”
It proposes that all recommen
dations for tenure be accom
panied by a formal dossier on the
candidate's teaching performance.
In a related area, the report
recommends that the faculty de
sign an experimental student
evaluation form to be used in all
undergraduate courses. The form
would go directly to the individ
ual faculty members concerned.
Berkeley now has a student-run
program.
The committee devoted sub
stantial attention to the grading
system. While concluding that
changes were necessary, it was
unable to reach any clear con
sensus and wound up recommend
ing “only limited changes to
gether with a proposal for fur
ther experiments.”
Recommendations included:
• The opportunity for students
in good standing to take one
pass-no pass course each term
which would give credit towards
a degree (although only by spe
cial permission in a major) with
out counting in a grade-point
average.
• Courses offered in sequence
over two or three quarters in
which the student would receive
only one grade, at the end of the
sequences.
• Elimination ot grades irom
a student's grade-point average
for courses taken in his first term
of residence.
Concerning freshman admis
sions, the committee urged rec
ognition that “the tone of the
(entire) campus will be set in
creasingly by the needs and
values of the graduate students.”
It proposed that the admissions
office become more sensitive to
which students would “flourish
in this atmosphere” and which
would not.
The report seeks to abolish
compulsory advising, declaring
that the rapid turnover of ad
visers makes the system imper
sonal and ineffective. Entering
students and students about to
declare their majors would be
the only exception from a general
policy of voluntary advising.
The report declares that pro
fessional education is “so strong
that it is able to relax a little in
the interests of another goal of
university education, namely that
of guaranteeing a meaningful ex
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posure to the humanities and so
cial sciences.”
It recommends that profession
al schools work with the literary
college to develop optional five
year, combined B.A.-B.S. pro
grams. It also recommends that
the literary college improve its
general courses in the humani
ties and social sciences, after
which the professional schools
should raise their "breadth” re
quirements to a minimum 20-25
per cent of the total degree re
quirements.
The committee's outlook to
ward the broad range of issues it
has raised is gener: My positive.
“The fact that we can make 42
recommendations is an index of
the great potentialities of this
campus, not of its weaknesses,"
Muscatine declared in his state
ment.
“If size and scale are among
our foremost problems, they are
also formidable assets,” the re
port states. “We do not have to
limit ourselves to one kind of
education. We have the means to
generate rich pluralism—a whole
spectrum of kinds of education,
better suited to the variety of our
students than our curriculum is
now. . . .”
“We have tried," Muscatine ex
plained, “to frame proposals that
have some edge to them—we have
avoided as much as possible rec
ommendations in favor of mother
hood—and we have been practi
cal enough to make recommenda
tions that we think are possible
as well as progressive.
Student Nominations
For Ersteds Requested
Students are now being en
couraged to make nominations
for the Ersted Awards, presented
annually to outstanding young
teachers at the University.
Two such awards—$1,000 apiece
—are given Annually at the Uni
versity.
This year the deadline for nom
inations is May 1, and students
are urged to nominate their fa
vorite teachers for the award
as soon as possible.
Nominations should consist of
the names of teachers being nom
inated and the reasons why the
students think they should receive
the award.
These should be turned in to
Don DuShane, dean of students,
207 Emerald Hall, on or before
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DuShane has emphasized tnai
the nominations require no anal
ysis of the teachers, only their
names and reasons for the nom
ination.
Previous winners of the award
are not eligible for another. Pre
vious winners at the University
are Roland Bartel, David Baen
copf, Stanley Greenfield, Bernd
Crasentann, Paul Dull, Lucian
Marquis, John Hulteng, George
Streisinger, and Stanley Pier
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only one award was given.
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