are on State College
MINUTE' OF FACULTY COUNCIL
Meeting #104
12 May 1955
ROLL CALL
The regular Ma meeting of the Facu~ty Council was preceded by
a cqffee perio in the club room of the Faculty Men's Club in
honor of Dr, C. W. Williams.
The Faculty Men I s Club vas host.
President Stra d called t1:e meeting to order at 4:00 p.m. in
the usual meet'ng place, Memorial Union 208. Members present
we.re : Bett, B gart, Brandon (ror Scholl), Carlim,Charley,
Colby, Dietz, ihTorth (for McCulloch), Foreman, Forslund (for
Sisson), Frazi r, Friday, Gilfillan, Gleeson, Goode, Hansen,
Heath, Herrman
(for Heston), Hovland, Li, Maser, Milligan,
Moor, Nicodemu , Ordeman, Orner, Pfanner, Petzel (for Ingalls),
Pilcher, Plonk (for W'iggenhorn), Poling, Pratt, Richardson,
Robinson, Sche 1, Schultz, Strand, Walls, Zeran. Also present
were: Dr. C. • Williams of Portland and Professors J. F.
Engle, M.,R. H ith, P. Heist, L. E. Jones, J. K. Munford,
F. L. Parks, J. v, Sherburne, C. K. Smith, Edna Van Horn,
H. G. Vatter.
MINUTES
APPROVED
The minutes of the April 14, 1955 meeting were considered
and declared a roved.
REQUIREMENTS
FOR DEGREE
OF ENGINEER
Copies of prop sed' changes in the requirements for the degree
of Engineer we
distributed.
President Strand said that the
proposed chang s were recommended by the Graduate Council,
had been concur ed in by the Adm:i.nistrative Council, and wer'e
submitted to t e F'aculty Council for action. He called on
Dean Hanson who spoke of the changes proposed and outlined
the provisions 'n respect to eligibility of engineering graduates of Oregon tate College, graduates of other engineering
schools, and re idence requirements.
Dean Gleeson spoke on
the engineering aspects of the Engineer degree and the requirements and chang s proposed.
TheGe wer e mainly the substitution
of credit hours in C01:irSeSfor some of the required professional experience.
He explained the criteria for IIsuccessful professional prac t] ce.
Dr. Ordeman asked about the s Ltuation of
students who mi ht take courses j~n sumner' sess Lon , which does
not reQuire for a1 lIadmission" to OreGon State College.
Dean
G2.eeson replied that the engineering school does not offer
graduate work i summer. Dean Gleeson moved that the proposed
changes in requ'rements for the degree of Engineer be approved.
The motion was econded , The motion carried and the Faculty
Council approve the follm-ling changes in requirements:
II
1
OSC graduate may substitute graduate study, by extension
or. obherwt se up to a maximum of three years and at the
approximate
ate of 12 term hours in Li.eu of each year of
professional practice.
2
Those who do not hold bacca.Laureat.e or master's degrees
from Oregon State College are subject to the same requirements as (1) with the additional stipUlation that at least
12 term hours of graduate work must be completed in residence on the Oregon State College campus.
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PROVISIONS
FOR SUPERIOR
STUDENTS
President Str nd referred to the continuing ,"rork of the Committee on Superi l' Students under Dr. S. M. Dietz as chairman.
He
introduced Dr. C. \,1. Vlilliams of Portland,
guest of the Faculty
Council, dire
or of the Ford Foundation Cooperative Program
in Portland 0 Children 'vith Except t onal, Endowment. Dr. Hilliams
explained tha
his work was concerned ~Ti-chages younger than
the college 0 university
age but he would assume that the members of the F ulty Council and faculty people generally had
interest
in t
younger age.
He said the program supplemented
programs cone ned ,vith handicapped and other children Hith nonaverage charac eristics.
He said that preliminary attempts wer-e
being made bef re t.he 4th grade level to identify
"gifted"
children but i that year group mental tests and achievement
tests were use , followed Lat.er by the Thurstone Primary
Abilities
test
and other tests to determine unusual intelleetuaJ
ability
and un sual talent.
He emphasized that all tests were
used with full realization
of limitations.
In respect to talent,
he said that t e encouragement of children along lines where
they wer-e she;
to have talent had been profitable.
Aceeleratior
in mathematics
early study of foreign language, increased
interest
in sc 001 work generally,
reduced emotional instabil:i.ty,
higher motivat on were some of the g£..ins. He described various
.,special inter st" c::"asses. He spoke of t.wo types of provision
for pupils sho Lng superior Lnt.e.Ll.ec
t ua.L ability:
(1) seminars
for top ten pe cent in which , in connection with special studies
effort is made to promo~e a right attitude
toward scholarship,
use of critica
method, mastery of tools of scholarship;
(2)
special seetio s of cert&in regular high school courses organized
to challenge s perior students.
In the seminars about 1,600 had
been enrolled
0 date.
In the special sections,
he said the
results
often
eared from ttsegregation" of the superior for the
most par-t had ot appear-ed, but an ezcessi ve spirit
of compe-: '
ti tion existed.
Dr. Vlilliams spoke briefly
of plans to follo,",
up some of the superior students who go to college anld in some
cases to help bt.af.n for them some challenging experiences
at
the college or university
level.
A number of queat ions were directed to Dr. Hilliams and were
briefly discussed.
Answer-Ing a question, Dr. Hilliams said that
a plan \Tas unde way to enrich the experience of superior pupils
in regular clas es.
He mentioned. also provision in the subsidizE
program in the
or-tLand schools for teachers who deal vTith superior pupils to t ke: refresher
courses.
President Strand said that
Oregon State Co lege faced a great problem in finding how to
challenge to thl ir best effort the top ten per cent of students.
He thanked Dr. rilliams
for his ,nsit
and his talk to the Faculty
Council.
ADJOURID,ffiNT
The meeting wasI declared
ad journed at
5: 25
0' clock.
Delmer M. Goode
Secrei-::;,ry