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Show Here's Your Sheepskin, 'Old Timer KINGSTON, R.I. (I P.) The undergraduate un-dergraduate program in colleges of arts and sciences should be extended ex-tended to five years and sDeciali-zation sDeciali-zation by "majors" in these colleges col-leges ' should be dropped, where possible, Dr. Francis H. Horn, University Un-iversity of Rhode Island president, stated recently. The job of bringing "more wisdom wis-dom into the affairs of man and of nations" and in coping with the explosion of knowledge can no longer be done ... in the traditional tradition-al four years, increasingly being compressed into three," he said. Claiming that he was "not so naive to discount the importance of specialized knowledge and professional pro-fessional preparation," Dr. Horn said that nevertheless society's need for breadth of knowledge, critical judgement, and power to reason are just as significant. While suggesting that "as much specialization as possible should be nostponed to the graduate school." he also decried the tendency "to mold the college of arts and sciences into a lower-level copy of the graduate school." The impetus to re-shape the college col-lege of arts and sciences, he declared, de-clared, will not come from the faculty fac-ulty of this college, since its members mem-bers constitute a stronghold of conservatism and are resistant to change. "Real educational reform will depend upon the sort of leadership leader-ship academic administrators deans and presidents give to the task," he added. After noting that colleges of arts and sciences will be called upon to accommodate the largest percentage percen-tage of the booming student population, popu-lation, Dr. Horn said there is a trend "to separate sciences from the humanities and the social sciences." sci-ences." If an actual separation does not take place, some sort of division will probably be developed to handle "administrative problems of such a large segment of the student stu-dent body and faculty." |
