Meeting 4f59
Oreg n State College
MINUTES OF FACULTY COUNCIL
7 December 1950
ROLL CALL
President Strand aIled the Faculty Council to order in special session at 4:00 otclock in room 110, Commerce Hall. The
members present v re: Beach, Blackwell (for Ordeman), Blanch,
Bollen, Butts, C pbell, Childs, Cleaveland, Cockerline, Colby, Cooney, Cross n, Davies, Demuth, Diedesch, Dimick, Fincke
(for Brandon), Fr'edrnan, Gleeson, Goode, Hansen, Jensen, Langton, Larse (for C llarman), Laslett, Lemon, LlcCutcheon, Poling,
Reichart, Smith, trand, Swarthout, Swygard, Thompson, Wanless, Ware, Zera.
The members of the Curriculum Council were
specially invite to be present at the meeting; of the nine
members the follo ing were present: Profess ors fJIayDuBois,
D. M. Goode (secr tary), L. Q. Larse, J. W. Sherburne (chairman) •
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He welcomed the embers of the Curriculum Council who were
present and expr ssed his thanks to the council for its
many hours in co sideration df curricular proposals. He
called on Dr. Sh rburne, Cha~rman, to present the report of
the Curriculum C uncil. Dr. Sherburne pr-es errt.e
d first a
sheet covering s me of the h an aspects o onf'r orrti ng the
work of the Cur-r Ilcu Lum Couno ill and listed some eight questions that at pr sent face t~e council. He mentioned the
misuse of re~din and conferJnce course listings and cited
a recent Baromet r story whidh incorrectly used a reading
and conference 11 mber- for a c,lourseoffering. He called
attention to the proposal at the end of the Curriculum Council report for t e authoriza1ion of special course numbers
for temporary co rsss. He indicated three corrections in
the mimeographedlreport of the Curriculum Council, copies
of which had been sent in advance to all members of the
Faculty Council.
in opening the meeting said that the CommitIfare will bring in a report at the next
14. He said the new committee on objectives
Oregon State College will be appointed soon
welcome suggestions for members, although
those suggested would necessarily be
President Strand presente.d tots,ls of credrt additions during
the eight preced'ing years aggregating more than 1000 net
term hours increise. He read two paragraphs from the. leading article in tIs current issue of Schooll and Society in
which the need f,r a conservative and modE3rate policy in
curricular develbpments was stressed. He than called for
consideration of the Curriculum Council rep or-b page by page.
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In the detailed c nsideration and discussion free questioning
was in order and any members of'the council participated.
Dr. Friedman rais d the question about meeting the requirements of Ca Ll.f'cr
ni a law which specifies six hours of supervi sed teaching fo junior college certification.
It was
suggested that fo students wishing to meet the California
requirement it wo Id be possible to register for six hours
\.mder CC 505 and ake the work of the proposed course CC
506 plus other si Hal' work for the added credit if the
department approv s. Dean Gleesoh explained that the dropping of the major in mining engineering looks toward a
possible regional curriculum in some institution in the
region. In respo se to questions, Dean Crossen said that
the new five-year curriculum in pharmacy contains no pharmao y
courses in the fi st two years. Among other comments, Prl3sident Strand refer ed to the plan for special numbers for
temporary courses and said , "this is an important proposal
but it wiLl, have 0 be used judicious l;yor we won't have it
very long."
ADOPTED
Dr. Swarthout mov d that the Faculty Oounc i I approve the
report of the Cur iculum Council, inc Lud i ng curr i cu lar
proposals for the 1951-52 Catalog. The motion was seconded,
put to vote, and 'vas declared carried.
ADJOURNMENT
The Faculty Coune 1 adjourned at 5:20 o'clock,
REPORT
Delmer M. Goode
Secretary