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THE DAILY TAR HEEL
September 17, 1983
University, State Efforts Planned
Educational Reform Movement Spread.
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By TODD COHEN
DTH Staff Writer
Student leaders in the
educational reform movement
here are stepping into the third
year of the Experimental
College with an abundance of
programs extending the once
University-contained
experiment well into the state.
Buck Goldstein, who serves
as the first Presidential
Assistant for Education on
appointment by Student Body
President Ken Day, explained
his hopes and optimistic
criticism of the educational
reform movement here.
The experimental college is
an outgrowth of a study
initiated in the fall of 1966 by
the then Student Body
President Bob Powel who had
placed a notice in the DTH
requesting all students
dissatisfied with their
UNC Press
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life and inspite of its severe
economic difficulties managed
to publish many books which
were critical and economic
successes.
The Press, though varied in
subject matter, had
deliberately emphasized the
South in regional social studies
and works on the botany and
zoology of the region. A few
ventures had been made in the
fields of fiction, poetry and
drama. The press continued to
gain an increasingly prominent
national and international
position.
The Press has grown steadily
into a full-fledged publishing
organization that publishes
some 50 books annually and
has a sales income of over a
half-million dollars. It
distributes six monographic
series from academic
departments, handles the
circulation of three scholarly
journals, and has publishing
contracts with important
professional groups such as the
Institute of Early American
History and Culture . at '
Williamsburg.
educational experience at the
University to attend a
discussion on the matter.
Out of Powell's discussion
emerged three ideas for
improving the educational
system at the University,
among them the Pass-Fail
system and the Experimental
College.
The Experimental College, a
non-accredited schedule of
student initiated,
predominantly student-led
courses, was begun the
following spring with a
curriculum comprising 19
courses. The schedule grew to
54 courses last spring.
Goldstein, who last year
served as chariman of the
Experimental College,
explained the importance of
the College as not merely
bringing about a productive
learning experience for the
individual student, but, even
more, as effecting constructive
change within the University.
He urged that reform must
not be limited to the
University, but must be
encouraged to permeate state
and national educational areas
in an effort to solve the
underlying problems present
there. Such a movement delves
deeper into the real problem
Concerning the actual
curriculum of the University,
three principal "improve
ments" will be in effect this
f alL
A student-initiated course,
which was part of the
curriculum of the
than such issues as the Vietnam -Experimental College last
war, he said.
Last spring efforts were
begun to develop a number of
new programs here which will
take effect this fall.
REACH, a program to
involve the residence college
resident personally in the
college and to develop the
"living-learning" concept of
the residence college, is being
implemented in Hinton-James
Spring, will be the first such
course included in the
curriculum of the General
College.
In addition, two
committees, one of which will
include students, will
reevaluate the General College
and the College of Arts and
Sciences.
The final major campus
program on educational reform
will be the continuance of the
the state the ideas and
knowledge gained from the
local experiment.
Chapel Hill has been
selected by the National
Student Association, which
received from the Ford
Foundation a grant . of
$300,000 for initiating regional
organizing on the matter of
educational reform, as one of
two areas in the United States
in which it is logical to begin
the organizing, Goldstein said.
The second region is the San
Francisco area of California.
Goldstein urged that in the
two basic aims of the reform
movement here developing
the local educational
experience and using that
experience as a basis for
spreading the movement
personalities play only a
subordinate role to the greater
ideal of change. Change, he
said, is the nature of
educational reform.
BUCK GOLDSTEIN
ROGER THOMPSON
ge Aims
Residence College.
An experiment in a more Experimental College,
closely knit co-educational Student leaders
residence college will be
studied in Scott College, which
this year will house women for
the first time in one of it's
three residential building,
Parker.
of
educational reform here have
followed the belief that
problems in the University
only reflect problems outside
the University, and thus have
begun to carry on throughout
iHiXBeomeniLai luone
At Action - Oriemtedl Classes
By TODD COHEN
DTH Staff Writer
Roger Thompson, chairman
According To Ingram
Grad School Bra
ft
'ears Reduced
UNC's graduate school will
not be as severely effected by
. the new draft policy on
graduate students as previously
feared, according to James C.
Ingram, dean of the Graduate
School
Last February, when the
new Selective Service System
policy on abolition of graduate
student deferments was
announced, it was thought
graduate school enrollment
might be cut 50 per cent
However, Dean Ingram said
Thursday, the enrollment in
the graduate school this year
may increase from 3,311 last
year to about 3,500.
Accurate figures on how
many graduate students enroll
will not be available until after
registration today, he said.
He attributes the
"unexpected increased to - 'the '
slowness with which students
have been reclassified and to
the decrease in the size of the
draft call-ups recently.
The 3,500 figure is 137
below the number the
University had originally
expected to enroll this year
before the change in the draft
regulations was made.
The volume of applications
the University received this
year actually increased 15 per
cent over the previous year and
the University expects to
receive 7,000 applications this
year.
The new SSS ruling
abolishes student deferments
for all graduate students except
those in medicine, dentistry
and other meaical professions
and those who are entering at
least the second year of
graduate school.
Cm UNC,-; last year, had 476
graduate students enrolled in
health affairs in the school of
medicine, dentistry, nursing,
pharmacy, and public health.
It had 2,835 enrolled in the
academic affairs division of the
graduate school.
The greatest effect a drop in
graduate-student enrollment
would have had would have
been in teaching, where the
University relies heavily on
graduate students to teach
lower level courses.
Overall, there will probably
not be a big drop in the
number of graduate
instructors, according to
Ingram. However, some
departments will probably be
effected more than others, he
said.
Li?st year the University
or
research
instructors
assistants.
UNC's graduate school is
one of the few in the country
belonging to the Association of
American Universities and has
been rated as one of the top
three in the South, by the
American Council on
Education. . -
It is third in the country,
behind Columbia and Johns
Hopkins in the number of
Woodrow Wilson1
Dissertation-Year Fellowships
given.
For this year the Graduate
School received 45 NDEA Title
IV Fellowships, the maximum
that may be awarded to a
school.
The graduate school has
decree programs in 32
employed ; 2,051 graduate departments, nine professional
students; j JL,277. as. graduate TschoolSjlariMsen curricula.
of the Experimental College,
plans to implement the College
this year with a series of major
programs designed to improve
the effectiveness of the
experiment.
Thompson explained most
of the change were directed at
creating an action-oriented
curriculum, which, he said, is
the basis of one of the "most
meaningful" of educational
experiences.
The Experimental College is
a program on non-accredited
courses initiated and led
predominantly by students. It
began in the Spring of 1966.
Much of the innovations
this year will center around
educational dialogue groups,
Thompson explained.
The dialogue groups will
involve discussions on the
meaning of educational reform
to the individual student, and
use the discussions as the basis
for a course to give in the
spring, hopefully with
University accreditation,
Thompson said.
He said he hopes a greater
show of interest will be
forthcoming from the
University administration and
faculty.
For the first time this fall,
training will be offered to
course leaders on teaching hoped to make available from
techniques. the University administration
Thompson said faculty financing for any
members would be invited to student-initiated . accredited
teach courses and there are courses,
currently ten faculty members The curriculum of the
who have agreed to help. He Experimental College will be in
also said he would seek from some way geared to the
the administration, probably problems and issues prevalent
through department heads, at UNC, he explained,
funds to finance graduate Thompson said the
students for teaching in the Experimental College has, since
CoJJfge. its birth, contributed a good
He urged members of the deal to educational reform in
University community to the University bv making
remember that anybody may
teach or enroll in a course in
the Experimental College.
Thompson also said he
educational reform a hot issue,
but, he said, there is still room
for improvement in the actual
functioning of the experiment
Cadets Number 600
Approximately 600
students will be enrolled in the
Naval and Air Force Reserve
Officer's Training units this
year.
The AFROTC program will
have 54 students in its
two-year program for juniors
and seniors and approximately
100 freshmen entering the four
year program. The NROTC
unit, the largest such unit in.
the nation, will have between
430 and 450 students this year,
including between 150 and 170
freshmen students.
The Department of Naval
Science which conducts the
UNC program is headed by
Professor of Naval Science,
Capt. Rex W. Warner. One
associate professor, five officer
instructors and seven enlisted
men serve in the department.
The AFROTC program in
the Department of Aerospace
Studies is under the School of
Arts and Sciences. Lt. CoL
Ralph B. Hemmig, professor of
aerospace studies, heads the
department.
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