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MONDAY. MAY 29. ItfBV THE DECREE page 5 Students Should Be Partners in College Administration; Says Noted Educator New York, N.Y.--(LP.)—In her final report as president of Barnard College, Rosemary Park called for the acceptance of students as serious partners in college administration, lest they destroy the college before they have grasped its signifi cance in society. On the subject of women’s education. Miss Park declared that the traditional lack of scope in women’s aspirations is the factor most responsible for their absence in posts of lead ership. She suggested that af filiation with a university which offers the sense of being fully present in the changing uni verse, is essential to the at mosphere of women’s educa tion. Miss Park’s biennial state ment to the college’s trustees was issued prior to her assum ing new duties as Vice-Chan cellor for Educational Planning and Programs at the University of California at Los Angeles. Today’s students will be re sponsible ultimately for the welfare of their colleges as alumni, faculty and trustees, her report says. “If educa tors can succeed in disabusing this student generation of the idea that colleges are the Es tablishment or part of it, the freedom to teach and to learn will increase at these students gradually assume, Uke their an cestors, a share in the sup port of alma mater. “By preserving a diversity of income sources--govern ment, business, and private— the college’s integrity in the search for Truth will be guar anteed, no matter whether it originally be publicly or pri vately founded,” The student generation finds it difficult to imagine an in stitution striving for integrity. Miss Park declared. “This suspicion of organized human effort makes the maintenance of the usual student govern ment structure difficult. Non participation is the response,” she notes, “not the more open attacks which are reserved for social institutions like political parties, the church, the busi ness corporation; in short, the Establishment. “The romantic anarchy of this student position should not be allowed to disguise the ideal ism at the core. The problem then for any belabored admini stration,’' Miss Park said, “is to envision new ways by which this demand for new forms of societal and educational exper ience can be channeled. Other wise the vocal students will lay about in them in destructive frustration.” She suggested a search for reliable student opinion with re gard to tenure appointments to the faculty, and recommended that student advising of other students become part of the of ficial academic and personal advising system of the college. Miss Park cited as “begin nings” of shared responsibil ity at Barnard a student Cur riculum Committee effective in advocating change, the tra ditional student Honor Board to deal with dishonesty in aca^ demic work, and the newer Judicial Council for infringe ments of nonacademic regula tions. She noted that “today a relativistic ethics and the assumption that the college should be concerned with in dividual therapy rather than judgement have made the ex ercise of. judicial functions fraught with agony and soul- searching for individual stu dents. “The exchange of facts, views and aspirations between the constituent groups can only con tribute to the health of the whole and enable each group to work more effectively and preceptively,” Miss Park con- c luded. “Whatever flexible patterns of organization are created within the college, they must serve the aim of offering a liberal arts education to un dergraduates,” she continued. The survival of the nonspec ialized form of collegiate ed ucation, Miss Park maintains, is partly a function of an age group who have not defined their goals and who find the choice of specialty difficult without greater knowledge of them selves and their times. “Evolving from an aristo cratic stance, the college today has become a legitimate chan nel for upward mobility,” she said, “The college is strong, however, because there is a nagging question about how long the specialist’s knowledge is good for...and a persistent no tion that acquaintance with the past, some knowledge of the arts, some sense of scientific methodology, contribute to the living of life for the specialist and the nonspecialist alike. “The cultivation of the power to work and live with ambig uities seems to me the basic mission of the college today,” Miss Park said. The college must insist therefore on in tellectual scope, no matter how attractive some synthesizing efforts may be. “Too many new combinations in the structure of society and the intellectual world itself are developing to permit any but HOY COBB — COBB’S MOTEL PARENTS AND STUDENTS WELCOME Cobbs Motel And Restaurant nWY. 301 NORTH Accommodations and Good Food For All At Sensible Rates personal and individual accom modations to the specialized in formation available. “If,” she continued, “higher education in its liberal arts form cannot resolve the am biguities of our evolving and transitional time, then matur ing of judgement is the es sential aim of the college, and this requires time and not ne cessarily additional facts,” Last year. Miss Park re called, the Barnard faculty re duced the normal student pro gram from five to four courses in an attempt to provide op portunity for reflection. This is not to be regarded as a means of accelerating progress toward graduate and specialized training, she said. Other problems covered in the publication include the role of the student dormitories and the need for experimental and imaginative instructional programs. “Originally college housing was intended to relieve the student of the necessity to find food and shelter for himself, thereby enabling him to devote himself primarily to study. Like other aspects of the col lege program,” Miss Park commented, “the undergradu ate dormitory is now given a new interpretation and is thought to offer a restrictive type of existence which prevents the fullest development of the individuaL” On the subject of college instniction. Miss Park said; “More imaginative programs need to be tried If we are to determine where the per sonal relation between the teacher and the student is es sential and where the student can do as well, if not better, by himself.” Rather than continually in creasing the size of existing faculties by adding less well- paid and possibly less com petent people. Miss Park sug gested regular scrutiny of col lege programs to devise new methods of encouraging and judging student learning and to “free us from tyrannical aca demic bookkeeping.” Pictured above are two of the many bearded males that have dotted the Wesleyan campus during recent weeks. Carl Carter (above) and Ed Maddox aren’t trying to start a new fad, they’re Just helping the city of Rocky Mount celebrate its 100th Anni versary. (Photos by Norton). Faculty Approves Studies Program, Advance Placement, MENC Tarrytown Barber Shop Three Barbers — Shoe Shines 8:00 A. M. — 6:00 P. M. Acting on a recommendation by the Curriculum Committee, the faculty recently approved a group studies program. The program is so designed that students, under the direc tion of a faculty member, may organize into seminars in order to pursue an area of special interest for elective credit. Stipulations for organizing a seminar in a particular inter est field are that the title of the course must be academi cally defensible, that a facul ty member can be interested in participating in the course, and that enough students show interest in the course. Prior to registration of such a seminar, the instructor in volved will define the nature of the course, the semester hours credit, and whether up per or lower level credit will be given, subject to approval by the Division Chairman and the Academic Dean. The group studies programs are intended to carry between one and three semester hours credit in any given semester. The program becomes effec tive in the Fall of 1967, In other recent action, the faculty voted in favor of a measure which would provide that quality point averages will be computed on the basis of total hours attempted. This means that no student may re peat a course for credit in which he made a "D” or above. This measure, effective Sep tember 1, 1967, means that students will not be allowed to make up “F’s” and have them taken from the record. Any grade made by a student after September 1, 1967 will be permanently affixed on his record. The application for charter of the Music Educators Nation al Conference Student Member Chapter of N. C, Wesleyan Col lege was also approved on the recommendation of the Board of Review and the Student Life and Services Committee, The MENC held its initial meeting recently and elected officers for next year, Sara Nell McBride was elected pres ident; Maggie Poole, vice pres ident; Barbara Crawford, sec retary; and Donna Bradham, treasurer. The faculty all agreed upon a plan of advanced placement for credit for entering fresh men. This advanced placement for credit will be awarded to entering freshmen on the basis of the advanced placement ex amination administered by the College Entrance Examination Board. To qualify a student must attain a rating of 3 or higher. The following courses will be given as credit to all who qualify: Biology 1-2; Chemis try 1-2, English 11-12, For eign Language 21-22, History 1, 2, 11, 12, Math 25-26 and Physics 1-2. W. C. REID & COMPANY Eastern Carolina’s Leading Music Store ROCKY MOUNT, N. C.
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