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SPEAKING OF PEOPLE
THE
l-WEEKLY NEWS
LETTER
For Faculty and Staff
Volume 10, No. 13
March 16, 1970
STANFORD ESTABLISHES A 12-member Commission on Ac-
ACADEMIC GOALS COMMISSION ademic Goals has been established
by President Stanford who charged the group with a three-fold mission: to research the topic thoroughly and in discussion with all interested persons; to prepare a statement of long range academic goals for consideration by several divisions of the campus community; and to recommend a mechanism for assuring achievement of the goals, including identification of individuals and offices responsible for taking the steps necessary to move forward in the direction of the goals stated. The Commission will report directly to the President, with January 1971 set for the preliminary report.
In announcing the Commission, Dr. Stanford said: “If our institution is to function in a meaningful and rational manner in the years ahead, we ourselves must understand and be able to communicate to others our concept of our functions and objectives, especially in the academic area.”
Dr. Sidney L, Besvinick, chairman, reports that in stressing academic goals as the central function of the University, the Commission, in weekly meetings since early February, has determined it will seek to present definitive and descriptive statements as to what goals the University should establish regarding the student, society, and the institution itself.
The assistance of personnel throughout the University will be sought as the Commission asks faculty, staff and students to work as members of sub-groups, each of which will be chaired by members of the Commission. The sub-groups will look at various programs — undergraduate, graduate, professional, extracurricular including athletics, interdisciplinary centers, continuing education, and others — with a view to understanding what is going on in various areas and where they are going in terms of long range academic goals.
As sub-groups are formed, meetings of each group will be announced and anyone is welcome to attend, to speak or present a statement, or leave a statement to be read if unable to be present.
As goals are determined, the Commission will prepare position papers on the several goals and the relationship of academic programs to them.
Members of the Commission, in addition to Dr. Besvinick, are Mrs. Judy Cantwell, administrative assistant, Resident Student Development, and graduate student; Mr. Tim Choate, senior, IFC vice president; Dr. William Cleveland, pediatrics; Dr. Joseph Hirschberg, physics; Dr. Clarence Idyll, RSMAS; Dr. John Jenkins, education; Mr. John Leatherwood, graduate student in student personnel work; Mr. Lincoln Myers, resident advisor and undergraduate junior in economics; Dr. John Stewart, marketing; Dr. Earl Wiener, industrial engineering and psychology; Prof. Thomas A. Wills, law. Anyone interested in inquiring further about the Commission may stop by the Commission office, 102 Ferre, or phone 284-4737.
C. M. Kromp. associate director, UM Computing Center, is in Brazil Mar. 11-18 giving computer presentations at the Conference of Federacao das Industrias doEsta-do de Sao Paulo, Universidade Mackenzie and Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro...
Associate Professor William L. Ward, assistant chairman of the department of art, was named acting chairman of the department, and acting director of the Lowe Art Museum Feb. 1. Associate professor Richard W. Downs was named acting assistant chairman of the department. Assistant Professor Schubert E. Jonas, administrator for Lowe Art Museum, will continue in the same capacity...
Dr. Harry R. Price, accounting, was one of 50 educators from this country and abroad to be invited to participate in the Conference on Accounting Theory March 12-13 at the University of Florida...
Dr. Fred A. Westphal, philosophy, has received a $1500 National Endowment for the Humanities Award for this coming summer for the study of the conflict between moral and civil obligation. Dr. John Knoblock, history and philosophy, has a similar award for the entire year and is studying Chinese philosophy at Stanford University and in Taiwan...
Dr. Morris Rockstein, physiology, will present a two-week course, “Human Physiology and Aging/’July 6-17 at the 1970 Summer Institute for Advanced Study in Gerontology at the University of Southern California...
The UM Science Building is the subject of a four-page picture story and cover in the Dec. 1969 issue of The Texas Architect, reports UM staff architect Charles J. Cotterman...
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| Full Text | SPEAKING OF PEOPLE THE l-WEEKLY NEWS LETTER For Faculty and Staff Volume 10, No. 13 March 16, 1970 STANFORD ESTABLISHES A 12-member Commission on Ac- ACADEMIC GOALS COMMISSION ademic Goals has been established by President Stanford who charged the group with a three-fold mission: to research the topic thoroughly and in discussion with all interested persons; to prepare a statement of long range academic goals for consideration by several divisions of the campus community; and to recommend a mechanism for assuring achievement of the goals, including identification of individuals and offices responsible for taking the steps necessary to move forward in the direction of the goals stated. The Commission will report directly to the President, with January 1971 set for the preliminary report. In announcing the Commission, Dr. Stanford said: “If our institution is to function in a meaningful and rational manner in the years ahead, we ourselves must understand and be able to communicate to others our concept of our functions and objectives, especially in the academic area.” Dr. Sidney L, Besvinick, chairman, reports that in stressing academic goals as the central function of the University, the Commission, in weekly meetings since early February, has determined it will seek to present definitive and descriptive statements as to what goals the University should establish regarding the student, society, and the institution itself. The assistance of personnel throughout the University will be sought as the Commission asks faculty, staff and students to work as members of sub-groups, each of which will be chaired by members of the Commission. The sub-groups will look at various programs — undergraduate, graduate, professional, extracurricular including athletics, interdisciplinary centers, continuing education, and others — with a view to understanding what is going on in various areas and where they are going in terms of long range academic goals. As sub-groups are formed, meetings of each group will be announced and anyone is welcome to attend, to speak or present a statement, or leave a statement to be read if unable to be present. As goals are determined, the Commission will prepare position papers on the several goals and the relationship of academic programs to them. Members of the Commission, in addition to Dr. Besvinick, are Mrs. Judy Cantwell, administrative assistant, Resident Student Development, and graduate student; Mr. Tim Choate, senior, IFC vice president; Dr. William Cleveland, pediatrics; Dr. Joseph Hirschberg, physics; Dr. Clarence Idyll, RSMAS; Dr. John Jenkins, education; Mr. John Leatherwood, graduate student in student personnel work; Mr. Lincoln Myers, resident advisor and undergraduate junior in economics; Dr. John Stewart, marketing; Dr. Earl Wiener, industrial engineering and psychology; Prof. Thomas A. Wills, law. Anyone interested in inquiring further about the Commission may stop by the Commission office, 102 Ferre, or phone 284-4737. C. M. Kromp. associate director, UM Computing Center, is in Brazil Mar. 11-18 giving computer presentations at the Conference of Federacao das Industrias doEsta-do de Sao Paulo, Universidade Mackenzie and Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro... Associate Professor William L. Ward, assistant chairman of the department of art, was named acting chairman of the department, and acting director of the Lowe Art Museum Feb. 1. Associate professor Richard W. Downs was named acting assistant chairman of the department. Assistant Professor Schubert E. Jonas, administrator for Lowe Art Museum, will continue in the same capacity... Dr. Harry R. Price, accounting, was one of 50 educators from this country and abroad to be invited to participate in the Conference on Accounting Theory March 12-13 at the University of Florida... Dr. Fred A. Westphal, philosophy, has received a $1500 National Endowment for the Humanities Award for this coming summer for the study of the conflict between moral and civil obligation. Dr. John Knoblock, history and philosophy, has a similar award for the entire year and is studying Chinese philosophy at Stanford University and in Taiwan... Dr. Morris Rockstein, physiology, will present a two-week course, “Human Physiology and Aging/’July 6-17 at the 1970 Summer Institute for Advanced Study in Gerontology at the University of Southern California... The UM Science Building is the subject of a four-page picture story and cover in the Dec. 1969 issue of The Texas Architect, reports UM staff architect Charles J. Cotterman... UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI nsws HKjEp ® (!) (S (I fi 05 |
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