Meeting '#70
1'1
egon state CollElge
TES OF FACULTY
COUNCIL
14 February 1952
ROLLCALL
President Strand called the Facult;y Council to order for its
regular February meetdng at 4:00 o tc.lock with the following
members present!
Ba.sh, Blanch, Brandon, Campbell, Carlson,
Clayton, Colby, . orl'llfeld, Dunn, Engesser, Fincke {for Ware),
Gilfillan,
Goode Graf, Hansen", Hupprich, Kirkendall,
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Master, Lonset.h, Lunde, McCutcheon, 11arsh (fo r Berry)" l'Ioshberger (for Demuh), Poling" ReadJ, Reichart, Smith, Snodgrass,
Strand, Swygard, TeI'riere (for Bullis),
Wanless, Winger, Wood,
Yunker, Zeran.
APPROVAL
OF
l1llJUTES
The minutes of t e Jfanuary 10, 19!>2 meeting were approved
after correction
of a name.
CAl1PUS
CONFERENCE
ON COLIEGE
TEACHING
President Strand announoed that plans werf,l under way for a
campus conferenc
on college teaching on ;ipril 2-3 with Dr.
rtax S. Marshall
f 1ihe University of California
a'S leader.
He said a genera cmmnittee would be in charge of ar-range-s
ments and the Fa liiy Council wou:Ldbe represented on the
committee.
COOPERATIVE
ARRANGEMENT
WITHCAMAS
PAPERSCHOOL
APPROVED
A recommendatio fr()m the Graduat{~ Council providing. for
a cooperative ar angement with the Crown Willamette Paper
Company at Camas Washington, was considered.
Students in
the Camas Paper cnco), would be graduat.e stu:lents in the
Graduate School f Oregon state College carrying approved
course work unde faculty members approved as member-a. of
Oregon St,ate College and would be
the Graduate Fac lt~r
required to com et.e a minimum of 15 term hours in residence on the c
US)I of which 12 hours must be course
work.
After discussio
of some of the d4~tails the council on
motion voted to pprove the cooperative arrangement between
the Crown Willa tte Paper School and the Graduate School
ollege.
.
of Oregon State
of
President Stran cajLled on Dean Hansen to outline the back11.F. & M.S.
WITHOUT
THESIS ground consider
ions for offering the degrees of Master of
APPROVED
Fbrestr,y and Ma ter of Sc~ence (~n field of General Science)
without thesis.
Bet-h these propoea.la were recommendations
of the Graduate Council.
Reference was made to the fact
tha.t the i"Iaster of gducation degree is offered (under "Plan
en) without the d.s, No question '1'Ias raised regarding the 11.•
F. proposal, bu aUf~stions pertai:ning to the proposed 1'1.S. .
without .thesis
ere discussed bri,sfly.
The fact was mentioned that sei nee teachers in high schools, seeking salary
advancement by qbta:Lning a master's degree, wer'e taking the
Ed.I"!. without tl1esil3 in considerable numbers. Such teachers,
it was pointed dut, should take courses adding to their
knowledge of thJ sciences;
instead, under the r-equdremenbs
for the Ed.l'I., ~ey were taking largely education courses.
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President Strand said that if approval were voted to the
11.S. in General ci.ence .wi thout thesis, he would approve
it ona trial ba is for four or five years subject to review after that
erj.od. It was specified that completion
of the 11.S. in
neral, Science without thesis would not
admit to candid y for a departmental major in one of the
sciences.
l1r.
ode explained that the two proposals should
have come before the Faculty CouncLL earlier but, because no
Board action is ecessary, they ha.d been detached from the
other curricula
proposals and bhen unf'or-tunabeIy overlooked.
In order to inc de the announcement,of the M.S. without
thesis in the S i1el~Session Catalog, immediate action was
necessary.
Aft
motipn, the council voted to suspend its
rule that would equire delay in act.Lon until the 11arch
meeting. On mo ion it then voted to approve the M.F. degree
without thesis
d the IhS. in General Science without thesis.
POLLOF
STUDENT
OPINION
said ~e was giving his consent to the
operation of a 011 o~ student opinion, under student
auspices, invol ing about ten minutes of class time in a
specified class perio.
He ifivited council members to
submit question thl3y .ght wish to suggest to be included
in such a poll.
AAUP STUDY
Dr. Ronald C~~pell,
950-51 chairman oftha Committee on
College Teachin of t e American ASSOCiationof University
Professors, rep rted
n the findings of the committee.
Copies of the c mmitt e report had been mstributed to
Faculty Council membe s in September. Dr. Campbell devoted
his time to re ·ewi:ng the committee recommendations, making
commentson so
of t em. President Strand asked whether
the council wou d lik
to discuss aspects of the report as
well as similar matte s presented by Dean Gleeson at the
February meetin on t e national and local studies.of
college teachin and urricular problems by engineering
educators.
De Lejla ter suggest.ed that perhaps a "sifting"
committee might selec re'commendations on which the Faculty
Council could t ke ac ion. Presi.dent Strand said he would
pick out some 0 the utstanding recommendations that the
Faculty Council might profitably work on.
OF TEACHING
PROBLEJ.vlS
On behalf of th Facu ty Council" President Strand expressed
appreciation of the r ports by Dean Gleeson and Dr. Campbe Ll.,
ADJOURNMENTThe meeting adjbumed at 5:15
0
'c:lock.
Delmer 1"1. Goode
Se(~retary