Fairleigh Dickinson University Rutherford - Castlelight Yearbook (Rutherford, NJ)

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EDUCATION Dean Hillson Mr. Bernard Reiner Ulead of Secondary Educationl The College of Education, Fairleigh Dickin- son University, consists of approximately 1,370 students. Seven hundred and thirty-five of these major in elementary education. The other 636 major in the following areas of secondary education: Accounting, Biology, Chemistry, English, General Science, Mathematics, Physics, Secretarial, Social Studies, and Business Edu- cation. The faculty of the College of Education num- bers in excess of 30. Included in this figure are part-time members involved in teaching in the Evening Division of the University, and in the supervision of student teaching. The College of Education may be charac- terized as one which is presently in a state of growth and revision. The elementary education curriculum was revised in 1963-64. It is a New Jersey State Department of Education approved program and leads to a Bachelor of Arts Degree with a combined professional preparation for certification in elementary school teaching. The secondary education curricula are being care- fully looked into, analyzed, and thought out at present. They will in all likelihood, in the next several years, undergo a revision aimed at liberalizing the oilerings so that there can be a greater substantive depth achieved by all of the secondary majors. There now exists a strong Master of Arts in Teaching program. This was put into operation during the academic year 1963-64. It is a program underwritten in part by the Fund for the Advancement of Education of the Ford Foundation and represents the first of its kind in New Jersey. The faculty of the College of Education is one which is young, aggressive, and generally quite anxious to participate in creating new directions for the betterment of education.

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LIBERAL ARTS 28 The College of Liberal Arts of F airleigh Dickinson University is currently undergoing far-reaching changes and improvements. Elec- tive courses in selected studies in the plays of Ibsen and OiNeill have been offered to the student body for the first time this year. In addition, an Arts Workshop pro- gram has been developed under the guidance of Mr. Laurer. Under a new arrangement, all future edu- cation graduates will receive a de- gree from the College of Liberal Arts. Also, the new Master of Arts in Teaching program increases the oiferings of the Graduate School of Liberal Arts. This is further bolstered by graduate programs in three languages. On the under- graduate level, plans are now in progress for the development of a fully equi ped language labora- tory. In ad ition, experimentation has been undertaken for the past couple of years in order to gauge the acceptability of a new Liberal Arts major in comparative litera- ture. This program has been suc- cessful and will soon be inaugu- rated on the Rutherford Campus. The Rutherford Campus will also see physical evidence of the growth of the Colleges of Liberal Arts. Construction of a new combined musical and dramatic theatre will soon be started. These are but a few of the many plans being made for the improvement of the College of Liberal Arts. Dean Haberly Dr. Held t H ead of E nglish DepartmenU