Rochester Institute of Technology - Techmila / Ramikin Yearbook (Rochester, NY)

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Mwyer people?... the thing that happens, more and more, is that you get people wanting to have more electives, more variation in their program than ever before. Basically, pedagogically, it is sound, Doctor Miller is all for this. ... I think the phrase he uses is, avoid narrow professionalism. Whether this is good or bad seems to remain a question in the minds of many. In Brady's mind, ,.. the real answer is going to be, for both my registration and scheduling problems, and for the Institute at large, is to give the student much more responsibility and, of course, if you have more responsibility you have to have more authority-----it is going to be interesting. 9

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take were predetermined. Since then two things have come along to change that. First we've got a tremendous influx of transfer students; approximately one third of our incoming students, this fall, were transfers. This means that all of these transfer students are going to have differing backgrounds. So they can't fit into a channeled program. Compensating for this throws block scheduling into a cocked hat. The second big thing that is happening is that we are getting a lot of people raising questions about the curriculum itself. How sound is it? What does it mean to be an American Craftsman? What does it mean to be a businessman in this world? Probably procedures that you are learning now won't be in effect ... not because they aren't good procedures but because new ones have come along? What do you teach 8

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