| Academic Policies, Faculty Minutes, Kintner: Education and Professional Programs Division | MC2003/131 | Academic Policies: 1920-1925. Faculty Meeting Minutes discussing policies on tardiness, absences, grading, credit hours, credit points, and incompletes (November 1920 - November 1923). Faculty Secretary, Edward Kintner's, notes from faculty meeting dated 15 December 1925. Materials dated 1956 through 1978 including but not limited to: Proposed Curriculum Modifications in the Math Department (1978), 1972 reaffirmation to offer the course Politics and the Environment during (1972-73), 1969 Memo: Independent Study for Science Majors, 1987 review committee for Non-Western Culture list, 1970 Convocation Committee Proposals, 1968 adjustment to the new curriculum,1976 interim, proposal for a new course, Literature and Music, Summary sheet for Music department excluding private lessons and music organizations, Summary Sheet for the Sociology Department.1987 course changes from Sociology & Social Work,Proposal for Sociology major, "Specialization in Correction, "Credit Hours produced by Faculty fall 1984 - Fall 1986, Analysis of Key Data including Student-Faculty ratio 1969-70 - 1984-1985, Cost/Revenue study letter for the Department of Home Economics, 1987, Accounting and Secretarial studies (Office Administration), Academic Standards, new secondary education patterns related to state teacher certification requirements, Journalism teaching major and minor requirements.Student requests for grade changes or credit. - Review of the Pass/Fail policy, 1973 and 1974.
- Recommendations from Ed Miller to Dean Book.
- Grades of students Fall and Spring Term 1987.
"The Manchester Plan, An Academic Program for the '70's." - Manifesto of the" Educational Frontiers Committee."
- Query to Frontiers Commitee proposing a lab experiment in independent study.
- Query from Frontiers Committee: Should students have more freedom to choose their academic destiny?" (1967).
- Videotape and closed-circuit television.
- From Frontiers Committee - Problems presented to faculty:
- Information Input Overload: " submerged from morning to night in sound, news media, talk, T.V., and radio, and oceans of printed material."
- Problem: "Does the 'educated' person approach the sifting of this overload in any way different from that of the uneducated person?
- Miscellaneous materials from the files
- An assortment of Academic Policy Committee papers with statistics and papers ranging from approximately 1965 - 1991, including but not limited to:
- Master Listing of Proposed Departmental Offerings, 1968.
- Course requirements for the two baccalaureate degrees.
- 1966, Some THoughts on a Social Science Core Course.
- Tentative Statement of Objectives for Manchester College.
- January Term Load.
- Course Requirements for various majors.
- Course hours and course offerings by week and year.
- Curriculum development (Science) and reorganization (Home Economics).
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