o egon state College
MIll ES OF FACULTY COUNCIL
Meeting #89
11
February
1954
ROLL CALL
The Faculty Counci met in regular session at 4:00 o!clock in room
208, Memorial Unio with the fa llowing members present: Apple (for
Frazier), Beach, B rry, Bogart, Brandon, Charley, Clinton, Colby,
Dunn, Friday, Gilf llan, Gili~ey, Goode, Hansen, Heath, Hovland,
Langton, Lemon, Lo seth, Norton, Ordeman, Pfanner, Plath (for Wood),
Pratt, Raabe, Read Richardson, Robinson, Shideler, Sisson (for
Grill), Stone, Str nd, Tressler, Williams, Winger. Also present:
Professor R. K. Carpbell.
MINUTES
The January
MISCELLANEOUS
President Strand s id that proposals for the new elementary education program would be considered at special rneeting of the Faculty
Council which he h s called for 4:00 o t cLock , Tuesday, Februaryl6,
in room 208, Memor al Union. Copies of mimeographed recommendation
of the Curriculum
ouncil were distributed proposing a four-year
curriculum and sup orting courses and course adjustments. B:'esident
Strand read excerp s from the minutes of the January meeting of the
State Board of Hig er Education in which statements had been adopted on Board propo als for revisions in the state retirement program. He referred to current criticisms of a recent book by Dr.
Arthur E. Bestor, r., professor of history at the University of
Illinois, entitled 'Education Wastelands."
He said he thought the
book thought provo ing, hoped some of the council members would
read it and report their reactions.
PROBLEr1S OF
UNSATISFACTORY
STUDEN1' WORK
President Strand i
dinating committee
referred to the wo
Student Personnel
dinator. He named
others closely ass
current experience
students in fres
and of all student
weeks. He present
achievement of stu
experiment in four
usual midterm repo
dinating committee
report. He invite
and from the Facul
Campbell then dist
Reports of Unsatis
troduced Dr. R. L,. Campbell, chairman of coorof the Student Personnel Council. Dr. Campbell
k of the coordinating committee as part of the
ouncil of which Professor D. W. Norton is coorthe members of the coordinating committee and
ciated with its work. He spoke particularly of'
in reporting names at end of four weeks of all
n classes who were doing unsatisfactory work
doing unsatisfactory work at the end of eight
d some statistics and referred to the subsequent
ents who had been reported. He said the current
week and eight-week reporting, instead of the
ting, was recommended last spring by the coorand the committee later would have a revised
suggestions from members of the Faculty Council
y generally.
There was some discussion.
Dr 0
ibuted a f'our=-page mimeogra.phed "Summary of
actory Wcrk, Fall Term 1953-54."
ENLARGEMENT
OF FACULTY
COUNCIL
President Strand s
ommend some consid
Council.
He said
C. E. Maser probab
receive suggestion
id the Executive Committee had decided to recrat:Lon to possi ble enlargement of the Faculty
e planned to appo.irrt a committee, of which Dr.
y would be chairman, to study the matter,
and present a r epor-t ,
ADJOURNMENT
14, 19 4,
minutes were declared approved.
I'
The meeting was declared adjourned
at 5:00 o ! clock.
Delmer M. Goode
Secretary