Pfeiffer University - Chimes Yearbook (Misenheimer, NC)

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Pfeiffer 69 was an experience of change. Students experienced the agony of the old and new junxtaposed, tradition and innovation preseni in the appearance of conflict. The college was exposed to modulation of the academic programs. Many upperclassmen avoided the confrontation, some freshmen expected more than they found, and numerous professors struggled to make their old habits fit the new pattern. 10

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PHIL MANLY, Freshman. ''I think I'm learning a learning process. I like the way I've got it set up. I personally like my complementary almost as much as my major . . . Lots of learning is involved with rapport between teachers and students; I have the advantage of some good teachers 7 PETER LaROCHE, Freshman. GINNY KENDERDINE, Senior. 7lt just can't work in certain areas like education, and as long as you have faculty members that still teach under old methods . . . So- cially, it's one of the best things that happened to Pfeiffer. Girls7 rules changed. It gave us the op- portunity to become responsible adults, for once. ... an exciting, challenging, and rewarding academic and campus life experience . . . Today's demands require re- thinking of the conventional educational patterns. Pfeiffer's AIM Program centers around an approach which emphasizes such positive features as: 1. Let Students Set Their Own Pace. 2. Offer A New Measuring System. 3. Encourage Independent Creative Thinking. 4. Guard Against Narrow- ness. 5. Encourage growth In Cul- tural Awareness. 6. Give Individual Academ- ic Guidance. AIM, Pfeiffer College Bulletin, September, 1968. AIM, Pfeiffer College Bulletin, October Supplement, 1968. In the fall of 1968, Pfeiffer College instituted Phase One of its new academic plan . . . Phase II will begin with the 1969-70 academic year . . . The expanded AIM program will provide a choice. When the traditionals surrender their didactic formulas for the in- centive and motivation . . . perhaps the system will survive as the ideal presents itself . . . The AIM pro- gram has so proven itself to me to be an academic anachronism. 12