Rise of Universities Students Took the Lead
Suzanne Wemple explains how medieval Bologna and Paris shaped universities. Bologna's student guilds enforced rules on faculty while Paris fostered academic freedom with master oversight. The Paris model influenced Oxford Cambridge and Barnard, where student input shapes electives and advisor roles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Suzanne -Wemple
Bologna
Paris
Universitatés
Studium
Oxford
Cambridge
Barnard
Suz
Anne Wemple
Second Chance at College Pre-Baccalaureate Program
In 1965 New York City College opened a pre baccalaureate program for students not meeting standard admissions. By 1967 about 500 such students were enrolled with one to two year paths to regular entry. Leonard Kriegel notes gaps in literary backgrounds and recommends summer reading and tutorials. Four other NYC colleges run similar programs with over 2000 students. aim is 10 000 by 1975.
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Marilyn Bai
New York
City College
Leonard, Kriegel
Camus
James
Kriegel
New York City
Hunter
Brooklyn
York
Queens
University at Large Education Firm Plans New Films
University at Large education expands with two medium films pairing leading scholars with filmmakers. President Arthur M. Schelinger Jr describes a university on film where great minds speak in depth. department heads include Alan Nevins Susan Sontag Isaiah Berlin Lionel Trilling and Jerome Brumer.
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Marshal McLuhan
University at-Large
Arthur M. Schelinger, Jr
University-at-Large
Uaity
Alan Nevins
Arthur’ Miller
Edward Albee
Isaiah Berlin
Susan Sontag
Lionel Trilling
John Fenbeth Galbraith
Arnold J. Toymee
Hubert Lowell
Marshall McLuhan
John Fairbank
Jerome Brimer
New Educational Films From Harvard Professors
Harvard professors unveil a slate of educational films focusing on urban life China in the world today and theater. John Kenneth Galbraith Maysles Fairbank Bruner and Harold Clurman contribute segments with lectures interviews and classroom footage. Each half hour color film costs 360 dollars and aims at college and occasional grade school use across economics sociology history and urban studies.
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John Kenneth Galbraith
Harvard
David Maysles
Galbraith
John K. Fairbank
China
Marshall McLuhan
Sim
Theater and Society
Harold Clurman
Group
Theater
David Sawyer
Edward Albee
Arthur Miller
Elia Kazan
Actors Studio
Steinberg
Jerome Bruner
Institute of Cognitive Studies
Boston
Djudge
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Katharine Gibbs
St. Baston
Mars
Gty
Dee Severin
St. Paul's’ Chapel
Columbia University
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Wilfred Owens
Professor Kenneth Jones
CAO
Leonard
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