The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, February 11, 1985, Page Page 4, Image 4
Educators say degi
By Associated Press
WASHINGTON ? College curriculum has been so watered
down that "almost anything goes" and the bachelor's degree
has lost its intrinsic value, a panel of prominent educators said
yesterday.
"The curriculum has given way to a marketplace
philosophy: it is a supermarket where students arc shoppers
and professors are merchants of learning. I-'ads and
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prevail," the Association of American Colleges said.
The educators blamed professors who place a higher
premium on research and their own advancement than on
teaching.
"Teaching conies first," they declared in the report,
"Integrity in the College Curriculum."
"This message must be forcefully delivered by academic
leaders responsible for undergraduate education to the
research universities that have awarded the Ph.D. degree to
generation after generation of potential professors professionally
unprepared to teach," it said.
"As for what passes as a collcgc curriculum, almost
anything goes," the AAC report said. "We have reached a
Students design sundec
By Cathy Armer undertook the sin
Three engineering seniors want to engineering elce
offer year-round tanning at the USC lingineering 430:
pool. They meet at leas
Plans for an enclosed sunspacc ad- supervising profes;
joining the pool are being studied by
mechanical engineering students Lewis The project requ
Heck, Bernie Donahue and Bill Wet/el. as engineering des
wun wans maue irom a type 01 oy the Physical
plexiglass, the sunspace will cover a
portion of the present cement sundeck They meet with
of the pool. The pool's garage doors Richard Ferriter, d
will open into the sundeck, and the Center and Aquati
students' design calls for wood or Whitney to determi
indoor-outdoor carpet on the floors. F\E. Center.
The goal is "to
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point at which we arc more confident about the length of a
college education than its content and purpose."
The report capped a three-year study by an 18-member task
force chaired by Mark Curtis, the association president. The
association's 560 institutional members include half the nation's
major research and doctoral-granting institutions. It
was formed 70 years ago to promote liberal learning.
The panel urged colleges to adopt "a minimum required
curriculum of nine basic intellectual, aesthetic and philosophic
experiences." It described the nine basic skills as:
The ability to think abstractly and perform critical
analysis. Too often, universities tolerate intellectual sloth, the
panel said.
Literacy in writing, reading, speaking and listening.
Understanding numerical data.
Historical consciousness.
Being intellectually at case witn science.
Values, or "the capacity to make informed and responsible
moral choice."
Appreciation of the arts.
International and multicultural experiences.
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ideck project as an Donahue added, "for the least amount
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t once a week with quirernents, options and restraints, the
>or Jeff Morehouse. three students will develop several
design possibilities. Their next job is to
lires that they work "knock down the variables," said
ign team, "hired" Donahue, to end up with one final
Education Center. design.
their "clients" TO COMPLETE the course, they
irectot of the P.E. will build a scaled-down, threeics
Director Jinibo dimensional model of the sunspace,
ne the needs of the and each will write a 20-30 page report
about the construction cost estimates,
give them the best materials and time outlay for the
Beck said and project.
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