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Show - 6 UNIVERSITY NEWS OLD ORDER BEGINS A A CHANGE Recent research at the Univer sity of Utah and at other average universities throughout, the nation na-tion reveal that the trend in higher high-er education is towards a university univer-sity which is primarily a demonstration-research center. The trend toward such a plan is revealed by a survey project conducted by two great Mid-West educational institutions, and supported sup-ported by student-opinion, at least, at the University of Utah. The "Chronicle," University of Utah newspaper, has conducted a survey among students, and found their opinion to coincide almost al-most exactly with that of students of the colleges where a complete furvey of faculty and students was conducted. A rigid uniform course for freshmen fresh-men is a part of the proposed plan, enabling students to get through "general requirements" courses quickly, and to go into specialized fields at the beginning of the second year. Under the present pre-sent system this general education phase of college training occupies the first two years or more. Fifty-seven per cent of the students and 64 per cent of the faculty agreed upon this nw plan. On the subject of appreciation-al appreciation-al courses, which provide students with the best in music, art literature liter-ature and sciences, students and faculty are in identical agreement at 73 per cent. Teachers and learners agree that students should have opportunity oppor-tunity for considering problems of personal behavior such as questions ques-tions of taste, discretion, fashions and customs, and morals. Fifteen Fif-teen per cent of the faculty members mem-bers interviewed do not favor this change, as against only ten per cent of the students. College goers are anxious to get instructor's opinions and delve into text materials rather than to do actual thinking of their own, according to 64. per cent of both students and faci'lty. This may be due to the fact that students lack self-direction and expect instructors to suggest and specify work in detail. University teachers at present place to much emphasis on mere memorization, according to 60 per1 cent of the students and 32 per cent of the students and 32 per cent of the faculty. Both instructors instruc-tors and students are in favor of encouraging and crediting term papers as regular part of the work since they give training in individual research and organization. organiza-tion. The present practice of grading University work ia scrambled and unfair in the eyes of a large majority maj-ority of both faculty and students, and both bodies favor radical changes in the system. The importance of the survey, according to University of Utah sociolists, is that revolutions in educational technique are heralded herald-ed by surveys showing marked discontent with existing systems. m i |
