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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

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mittee, and providing for open University hearings by the committee before making a report to the Senate. This motion passed. V. A committee was appointed, January 13, 1966, in a letter from the Chancellor which emphasized that "while no time limit is in effect upon the deliberations of the committee, if its recommendations are to be of any value in the University's consideration of this problem, prompt action is necessary. "Subsequently, the Committee met with the members of the Council on Teacher Education, the Educational Policy Committee of the Senate and Provost Lanier to discuss the matter of a College of Education. Following this meeting, the Chancellor was asked by the Ad Hoc Committee to authorize appointment of Education Consultants. VI. The Chancellor asked the Committee in a letter dated March 17, 1966, to set forth the problems with which it is concerned, the questions it proposed to raise and the issues for consultation. It was also his request that the Committee react to the discussion with the Provost and to an outline of historical facts and commitments concerning the establishment of degree programs in education. No reply to this request has been received to date. V I I . The last Senate meeting of the year was held on June 7, 1966, and a recessed meeting was held on June 9. Under date of June 9, too late to circulate to the Senate, an interium report from the Committee was presented to the Secretary of the Senate. This report responded partially to the requests made in the March 17 letter. It advocates the development of experimental programs, but leaves unanswered the question of structure within which these programs are to occur. The Committee wished to call four expert witnesses from other institutions with varying forms of organization of teacher education before making its report and recommendations in January, 1967. V I I I . The first Senate meeting of the 1966-67 academic year was held October 11, 1966. The Ad Hoc Committee reported substantial areas of agreement in all areas except the pattern of organization. The two plans of organization in essence were : Plan A — to establish a department of elementary education in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; to establish a Graduate School of Education; to teach all courses required for teachers in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Plan B — to establish a College of Education with a School of Physical Education in the conventional pattern. The Senate, after long debate and after many members had left, voted fortyeight to thirty-four in favor of Plan A. (The full report of the Ad Hoc Committee is supplied as Attachment B.) Attachment B. Report of the Ad H o c Committee on a College of Education Preamble From the deliberations of the Senate Ad Hoc Committee on a College of Education have emerged two plans for establishing an organization. Both plans have received equal support — by a vote of six to six with two abstentions. It had been hoped that consultation with recognized leaders in the educational field would suggest a solution of merit obvious to all. However, inasmuch as we have been informed that the urgency of the situation brooks no delay, we are submitting the two plans to the Senate at this time. T h e committee wishes to emphasize that the two plans are meant to reflect, through their structures, not only the differences in philosophy which have arisen, but also the very broad areas of agreement among all members. We subscribe to the general ideas expressed by the Provost relating to the unique function to be fulfilled by the University in its urban setting: the emphasis on research, on training of specialists and administrative personnel as well as teachers, on the achievement of close cooperation between the school of education and other faculties within the University. W e agree that academic departments should continue to bear major responsibility for training of secondary school teachers. The point at issue is which pattern of organization will prove more effective