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Fall Faculty Conference: The Future Of The University, Robert S. Eckley, Robert Harrington, Justus Pearson, Wayne Wantland, Emily Dale, John Ficca, Richard Hishman, Mary Shanks

Special Convocations and Events

This was the first fall of President Robert Eckley's time in office. The first part of the recording is an open Q&A session, followed by division-based reports. There are frequent references to a recent North Central reaccreditation visit in this meeting. In a memo distributed a day later President Eckley notes that the North Central visit and the recent changes in the general education requirements indicate "the importance of a re-assessment of our departmental-divisional-university structural relationships." His proposal formed a structure with three colleges: Liberal Arts, Fine Arts and Applied Arts.

Speakers include President Robert Eckley; Robert Harrington, Business & …

A Study Of Teacher Aides, Janis Kolb

Honors Projects

In the scientific, industrial world of today, specialization is a key word. With increasing frequency, jobs that used to be performed by only one or a few persons are being analyzed and, for the sake of greater effectiveness, broken down and assigned to specialists in the field. One area that has been slow in following this trend is that of education, Years ago, the teacher in a one-room school was assigned such diverse duties as snow-shoveling, hauling water, cutting wood, and keeping a fire going. In today's schools, these non-instructional chores are replaced by such duties as ordering films, setting …

A Study Of Team Teaching As Implemented In The Elementary School, Mary E. Myers '68

Honors Projects

At present , education is in an era of widespread experimentation, perhaps more extensive than a t any other time in its history. An intense examination of the methods of elementary school operation has been under way on a national scale and has resulted in the development of numerous new organizational and instructional approaches.

The Historians And I, Bunyan H. Andrew

Honorees for Teaching Excellence

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