v Special Reporter - Supplement -£_ r> XT'- \ BERNARD M. RARUCH MONDAY, MARCH 13, 1967 • 345 CITY City College Committee Report and RecomiiiendalioHS Last November the Board of graduate and graduate professional studies, and would be to transpose the entire City College appointed the City College Committee to examine all x>f these as related to teaching staff both full complex from Si- Nicholas Heights and from the possibility of whether Baruch School should time and adjunct, the relationship of the profes­ Gramercy Park to a single downtown location in become an autonomous college within the City sional business school to the business community, the middle of the business community and on the . and the commuting accessibility of the School to main arteries of public transportation. Given sixty The following are: The City College Committee all five boroughs. .'" J 1 • _ 1 acres in lower, Manhattan and $150,000,000 for of the B.HJB. Report, made, public last Thurs­ 5. Growth—the growth in student demand has. construction such a move might be considered, day, and the Baruch Faculty'Task Force Memo­ been, and is likely to continue to be, at the grad- with an alternative use for both of the present plants to be provided within the City University's randum Opposing Suggestion For Making Baruch •"fesaassr: School A Two-Year Upper-Division Unit, sub­ Master Plan. Realism does not support this course mitted to Sie Board on January 9, 1967. of action. TKA Special Supplement has been prepared The Changing; Situation jointly by the The Reporter and The Ticker as a The Committee has caref uHy reviewed the find­ special service to keep the student body, apprised ings and recommendations of the "Cottrell Re­ -of", all developments port" which in 1962 recommended that the^gyngh School lie separated from The City College and established as the Baruch College of the City Uni­ Introduction versity. The Committee notes that most of the statements and opinions now submitted In support "Since 1919, and in the present structure since of separation of the Baruch School from The City 1929, the school of Business and Public Adminis­ College and its establishment as a senior college tration of The City College has been located at unit of the City University^of New York, properly rTLexington Avenue. Before funds are committed rely on the Cottrell Report for basic, insights and to provide long awaited new buildings, the decision support. If the situation were today what it was must be made as to where the School should be Dean CottreH arid Professor Heskett made permanently situated. That decision, in turn, rests their definitive study, the Committee' "would be on answersN^o the questions of wjiat" function inclined, on balance, to support separation—of the undertaken at .what scope, and wjiat relationship Baruch School after the manner of the Cottrell the Baruch School should have within the City and recommendations. City University of New York. However, at least three new factors have en­ Thefacuity of 'the Baruch School," after extended tered the picture-since 1962, and each has an and careful inquiry, laid* r^ recommendations be- •— DEAN.EMANUEL SAXE • important bearing on the questions before us. fore The City College Committee of the Board of Taken together, these three constitute a radical Higher ^Education iri yoVembei^ 19b6. Consl jtered~nnctg"le ... of BuslnflBg agjLPt III the bases f or dectetqag wtta references fttymrn^nhi ftaiv**alsuvhee: n received^from students, Administration levelT l^Tfnirfuture^ oTtheBarndS^cXodl. alumni, and other faculties of The City College. Objectives ^When the Cottrell Report was rendered, all An open hearing was held on—December Z^,l?66, offerings in the then Municipal College System at which a number of spokesmen presented Iheir Throughout its deliberations, the Committee culminated with the Master's Degree (except for views, among them being the faculty, administra­ has chiefly been concerned with achieving .the certain Diploma work in Education, a feet which tors, and students at the Baruch School, and the highest quality of educational experience and op­ has no bearing .on the present discussion). With alumni both of the School and of the College. Some portunity for students of business. It is important the launching' of the CjfcSriiversity ojTNew York testimony was presented as carefully documented to stress that in its investigations and discussions and the new emphasis on doctoral studies as being papers, white otner -si one issue was of major importance in its think- ftaecalaureater^tl reported the results of opinion polls or of votes ing: the concept of a well-balanced education for has been an understandable shift in emphasis in within faculty bodies. (See Appendix A.) Both men and women whose future is to be in the faculty reeruiting. In the professional areas at Day and Evening Session students at the Baruch business world, and -whose professional education the Baruch School, and in the academic disciplines School were~ represented.' Appendix B lists those inusv.xEici'Uee a ^lioerai arcs and science base of an at the Uptown campus where doctoral offerings excellence equal to^that of the professional studies. who made a presentation at the hearing or have 1 have become part of the effective concerns of the submitted written materials. A deputation of Central to the quesfekm of the separation of the several departments, both recruitment and pro- Baruch School faculty, headed by Dean Saxe, Baruch School from The City College is a clear motion have tended to reflect a concern for build­ consulted with the Committee on -February 21st, answer as to which of the alternative possibilities ing and retaining a faculty which is capable of 1967, at one of the long series of meetings held promises to provide the richest educational op­ sustaining the-entire gamut of teaching and re­ by the Committee. All of the various points of view portunities, the greatest flexibility in planning search activities from the basic to the advanced were carefully and fully considered by the mem­ and development, the strongest advantages in re­ —freshman through post-graduate. cruiting and retaining faculty both in the profes­ bers of the Committee, * in consultation with the For more than a century, The City Tkdlege had Chancellor and the Vice-Chancellor of the Univer­ sional disciplines, and in the liberal and humane studies. been among the best of the nation's undergraduate sity and the ^President bftne City College. , as" is attested by the fact that more of To a large degree, the difficulties now encoun­ Factors to be Considered . its graduates .had obtained the doctorate {all tered by the Baruch School stem directly fronvthe fields considered) than had the graduates of airy At taKes no argument to substantiate the as­ fact that while the faculty of the School is com­ other American institution. In the-days before sertion that the present situation is untenable. mitted" to these same purposes; organiza doctoral work at City College, tiie tejechers^ in Inferior facilities poorly maintained and incapa­ framework and prevailing circumstances frustrate liberal arts disciplines at the Baruch School; were ble of being converted to adequacy, inadequate efforts to insure excellence both in professional commonly accepted as being on a par in all re- 'local provision for-supi&ort and maintenance ser­ andim liberal and humane studies within an 'spects with their colleagues in the same fields vices, and serious problems both of recruitment professional school. T ^ at the Uptown campus: all were undergraduate and of retention "of faculty hxthe nonprofessional If there were no countervailing factors, it would instructors. But with the advent of doctoral" worjk parts of the curriculum are among the "factors clearly be in the best interest of the undergrad­ and the necessity of recruiting for advanced levels which must be corrected. uate student of business to locate his school in­ of teaching ^and research as well as for. good un­ Due attention must also be given to: close proximity to the larger resources of an ex­ dergraduate instruction uptown, it has not always cellent . In the absence of over­ been easy to supply to The liberal arts and science 1. The curriculum—the optimum combination of riding considerations, such proximity to larger departments at the Baruch School their full quota studies, both prof essional and liberal>at the under­ resources—administrative, financial, intellectual ox able undergraduate teachers, as the former graduate level, for a sound education-m- business and cultural—is~ preferable to isolation with its teachers at" Baruch either retired or moved up­ and public administration; consequent restriction of such resources. town where theyTcould be2 a part, of the "new g. Extracurricular environment and opportuni­ Tfrere are, however, countervailing and over- ferment. It has boon suggested that this now cir­ ties; riding considerations which make itjiecessary to cumstance should be met by recruiting for_ the -^S^yacQlty —optinium -conditions for, recruiting. locate tHe-pr^ofesslbnalwdrl^ of theTschooi oi busi- Baruch School in the noTi-prfrfAafiiftTifl^depart- and retaining faculty not only to teach the profes­ ness close to the business community, where many merits teachers /whose expectation is that they sional program but also to provide the liberal arts of the Day Session arid most7 of the Evening will commit themselves to undergraduate teaching and science eromponents of undergraduate studies; Session students work, and where many of the only—and in most cases, to contentment with 4. Location—geographical location, witiiin the superior adjunct and part-time faculty 'are avail­ teaching only the basic courses. If the Baruch City of New York as related both to the Day and able. ' - L ' School, were to be established-as a separate unit Evening Session . students^ ^undergraduate liberal if it were feasible to- do so, perliaps the mest•!, of the City University, and its liberal arts and arts studies for business students, both under- satisfactory answer tcl~the question of location science coinponent were to continue to be only a y

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service function for professional education, it University complex, Each of -these is expected to 4. That all undergraduates specializing in busi­ APPE3«>IX A The" foregoing votes'were taken at a meeting of the Mr. Lewis Sturm, Managing Editor, Reporter would appear to thisjCornniittee that the humaniz-: grow considerably insize, and more are expected ness, except for livening Session students (see The Baruch School faculty, in a series of. votes, ex­ faculty of the Baruch School oh November 18, 1966. The Mr. Robert SeMman7~Tre«sureff Baruch School Alumni ing and liberalizing components of the curriculum to be founded. While it may be true that the below), obtain their basic liberal studies at pressed its attitude toward each of a succession of ques­ first four'were considered to be straw votes, taken as . Association ' ' , tions. In the tabulation, "faculty" means those who have a preliminary means of Understanding the mind of the Mr. William Freedman, President, Barucir School Aluirtni would have to be taught either by those who had .terminal or career courses in business fields in the other colleges, entering the Baruch School at fiacaity status under the bylaws and "^nests" means all faculty. *Oniy the final vote on the resolution is an offi­ Society , . -. ^= L _ foregone the expectati^ji of teaching advanced commuritty* colleges may riot in all respects be the the junior'year to begin their undergraduate Sthers who.teach at the Baruch School in a full time cial action of the faculty. It clearly calls for independent r Professor Samuel JEtanhand, Department of Management', eourses or of participating in the advanced in­ equivalent ojfprofessional undergraduate courses professional studies; and that all curricula capacity. •.. t status as a senior college of the City University with a — Faculty Guests Total .strong^arts' component in a school of business. Baruch School \ quiries anoV studies of their disciplines or, in the at the Baruch School (they are ^hot necessarily outside the professional .disciplines be dis­ Mr. Alan Weiner, Editor in Chief, Ticker ^ alternative, by a succession of young and able intended to be!) it would also appear that a continued at the BanichrSchopl. Question One: Should the Baruch - - r "School be relocated on». Yes 3 1 TOVAWW^W, nqiiTtTnatit n-P TWaT-mg^niorrt^- Written aubmissions have been" received from the fol- ton or twenty years~from now. The problem of the University after 19V0. ^-~— - Question Three: Should the status ' ' Baruch School lowing: _ —- replacing these-teaehers in the liberal arts and ^uo~pe Maintained with Yes 25 25 50 ProfoBSor Andrew JjaevsadETy Depauttment of English, That the rights of tenured faculty at the an- effort to improve fr?~ Nb' 45" "' 2S Baruch School science fields at the Baruch School under the new Question Pour: If autonomous status Mr. - Leon Levy, President, The Oppenhexmer Fund Baruch School be protected through the right Miss Gail XjarfinkeF, Managing JBlditpr, Ticker Mr. .Robert N. Seidman, Alumnus t j-_ circumstances created by doctoral work in these to transfer to appropriate departments in within the University cannot Yes 62 £9 Ul Mr.- Da^ad-Kosh," Presiderrt, Alunjni Association of City he " ', Science, City College —- of the status quo be acceptable? No ^4 2 Mr.-Marc Barman, President, Pay Session, Student Cuun- University (but not at Baruch) is a new factor College; and that similar protection be af- l«'ornial resolution of the faculty calling for the "estab- The School of Education, The City College . cil, Baruch School Special Task Force, the Baruch School, faculty with which the Cottrell Report could not and did forded tenured faculty in business fields who ' lighJTig of the Baruch Cpllege of The City University of Mr. Richard Little, Inter-Club- Boand, Evening Session, ;New York, as an 'autonomous senior college of the Uni­ Unidentified' faculty groiqpj^t^ne" Baruch School * not deal. • Yet this particular problem has in the may wish to transfer to the Baruch School Banjch -School . . •. ~ Student Council, Day Session, Baruch School past four years corne to be one of^the most difficult as their work at other senior colleges is versity, specializing in Business and having, a strong Mr. William Gobbo, Chancellor of Sigma Alpha; Baruch Sigma Alpha, The Baruch. School. liberal-arts component, -was acted upon as follows: •/ : elements in relationships between the__mother phased out. " • School { ' --—'• '-- r " Baruch School Alumni Society college and its Twenty-third Street branch. As That the administrative and support staff at Yes 61 38 99 Mr. Joe. Nachmas, President, Evening Session, Student Ticker the Baruch School faculty Task Force makes the Baruch School be strengthened and that No 11 11 22 Council, Baruch School Student Council, .Evening Session, Baruch School quite clear, there appears to be no promise of a substantial autonomy in internal operations solution to .this problem within the present frame- of the School be lodged with the Dean and ") work. Whether a of business could, faculty of the School. * over the years, expect to recruit for basic under­ That after three years of experience, there be graduate instruction 4n the humanizes and social - a review of the Upper Division status of unj Some Answers to the Recommendations and natural sciences the teaching force which give dergraduate business programs at the Baruch s strength and quality to that fifty per cent of its * ^"School; and that all aspects of these recom­ The Memorandum, ^Opposing Suggestion For would not be the only consequence. An insuper- lege requirements in a liberal arts school, all undergraduate offerings which falls _ outside the : DEAN DAVID NSWTON mendations (except the location) be reviewed Making Baruch School* A Two-Yedrr Upper-IHv^^^bie curricular problem would be created_iecailse students inall fields win be required to transfer gjUrn Unit was preparemB d by/the Baruch Faculty professional department is'an open question. In leges were handy will, instead, turn to the career after five yearsvpf experience. Tas«^~,k IT-,.-Force* ^«. » ,— ~^ *«,*+i^ — . T>„—-«u TT v*-~ confinement to a Junior and senior year would from one institution to another, where they must the view of this Committeeman affirmative an­ programs of the community colleges. 9. That, admission \o evening \ session freshman make impossible the sequence of courses required go through the process of reorientation. This prob? swer is most doubtful. and sophomore offerings in liberal arts which Should,The City College Committee give con­ by our specializations. For example, reference to lem of articulation and effective continuity is Thus it comes, about that three desirable de­ sideration to reducing the Baruch School from *£he second new factor which affects present velopments within the City University--graduate are basic to professional work at the Baruch Exhibit A shows that our Accounting sequence always^ difficuljt. We believe it is discrirninatory decisions and projections into the future is the School be terminated as of September 1970, a^ full four-year institution to an independent up­ requires a minimum of three years. To require to impose such a burden on all such students De­ work, impending admissions adequacy in senior per-division college within the City University, fact that, at long last, the senior^cplleges of the colleges; and the. rapid growth of the community unless reexamination of experience indicates compression into two years must necessarily re- cause they seek education in a field than those City University are about to tnove^^S^rt^cono- colleges—set a mm frjjoeyorfe for, QftTtfH jfftfing that opportunities for evening session lower we wish to go on record as being unalterably op­ duce the quality of the instruction given in this, offered by the liberal arts institutions of the City my of scarcity-to bne of adequacy insofa^vas ^he . the future of the Baruch School of pusine&s and division studies in other units of the Univer­ posed to any such change. field. Again, it would" be tragic if the desire for University, relationship between apphcant^and admisajona is Public Administration. These new considerations sity have not by- that time become" adequate Despite our belief that the idea is favored by "compromise" were to result in the compromising In Addition, the "highly important area of stu­ concerned. If the confident predictions of Board, do not raise the question as to whether or not ~*to meet the need; and that the Borough of only a small segment of opinion, if it is being of the excellent reputation of the Baruch School dent life is bound to suffer. A sense of identify, Chancellor, and Presidents are borne out, within these is a future for business education within Manhattan be especially entertained at all, we feel compelled to address in such areas. so critical to a college community, would be im- a~ half dozen years the capacity of the -combined the City "University. Across the nation, one out encouraged to develop appropriate freshman ourselves to the merits. It is our understanding Similarly, the quality'of instruction offered in POssiWe to instill and maintain with students en- senior colleges jof the University will begin to be of five.men enrolled in college is majoring in and sophomore offerings in its evenings ses­ that the submission of this preliminary memoran- Management, Marketing, Statistics, Law, and w>Hed in a two-year upper-division setting. ^59ae sion as soon as possible. ...-• dum will not preclude our being heard orally and Economics and Finance specializations would be* fragmented nature of the collegiate exeprienee sufficient to admit any high school graduate of business; and there is no reason to believe that for the City of New York who is eligible for bac­ New York City, the business and financial capital Concluding Discussion . in further written submissions if the Committee^ undermined. Our curriculum has been designed students in an Upper-division college would calaureate work. This means that for the first of the nationt should have a lesser need for busi­ believes the question ought to be-pursued fui lliei.—to make it possible for the "platform courses'* most likely render Ineffectual student personnel time the Baruch School will be in competition The disadvantages of the Committee's proposal ness .education The question is not whether the ^wm^Tea/Wy be~-st!pplled by others- This report -^>*es*fflia^--«HS^*ope*e*r^^ for high .schnnl graduates with all of the senior City University shouldboffer education se*^ a compromise- aimed at satisfying those who «ated> to be completed in the first two yeark (See cuter acLivitles.^StoitarIy, it would be impossible colleges over the entire range of abilities of enter­ concludes with a brief summary of the advantages to OTd fields. The question is, with the new circumstances of the proposal. _ ^ think that liberal arts courses can i>e taught onlv the trapezium in the lower left-hand part of Ex- ^^^ i>pera±e a student center in an ing freshmen instead of being in a position to just cited, and in the light of best guesses about in a liberal artsjeoHefeu and thu^ who belleve-gTat^^i^ A.) If those courses are not completed in npper-^viston coflegre unless the City University admit the bulk of its entering freshmen from the future, how can we now best plan to provide r: It gives to each faculty the functions proper the-T3ty^tJniv«Srtyought to create an indepen- the first two years, it becomes impossible for the would be willing, to invest, annually, considerable to t&at faculty. It does not expect a business facul­ siuns applicants whose grade averages were too low to m£h quality business education for the youth of dent College of Business and Public Administra- ^student to qualify for the specializations offered of money currently financed by four-year gain them admission to a liberal arts college of New York City? ' " *S ty to recruit and nurture 4iberal arts teachers and it does not expect a liberal arts college to supp We respectfully suggest that so literal a • i» the junior and senior year. (See the irregular undergraduate student fees. An urban institution the City University. Over the last decade, as City, Various Possibilities- >mc raHnpromise does justice to neither side, pentagon on the lowerrjght.) In short, an upper- °£ higher learning- in New York City without a a special breed of teachers of the liberal disciplines The Queens, Brooklyn, and Jjlunter Colleges have been The ^n^ttee has carefully passed in review for business students. It solv*^ tho Tmtj v * i. _ * of Business in a midtown or the same time keeping the business school in close The curriculum of the Baruch School has been departments of MaimgementT^tfarjfc^ing^ Account­ first^c* Freely howinanyj^ruch fireshmen^ location; and (6> location of the, Baruch developed as a result of many years of hard ex­ reaction ta our Freshman Conoquin. (THis CoDo^ downtowll touch with the business community. quium is a three-day orientation session — away ing, Law, Statistics, and Economics "^and^Finance woul^ Vve elected aj>usiness educataon n^pref- c^^ on ^ uptown ^^ of The~City Col- perience. To avoid .any possibility that the School maintain contact with a liberal arts fact 4. It keeps the Business School within easy com- from New York City — in which our new stu­ erenCeJ» a hberal arts education rf they had had ]ege main^^ng ^ downtown extension center might become too vocationally oriented, the' stu­ mutual advantage and for thje_ehrichnient of the a free choice is not known; but what is known is dents are^ affordeX d the opportunity to meet the for evening (and possibly graduate) students. muting" distance of the entire City, and within dent's program has been carefully designed to ' "SZ^Sidatte feiSsion«? courses are appro-—=—-—^^^^ JOf*- r close relations, exist between the 'two groui graduatev student .body is at the Baruch School- posals have been weighed. community, thereby making possible the retention thing about the integration of our ^Kberal arts largely because the liberal arts colleges-did not priately balanced -with Hberal arts work through­ the Baruch School; The Committee believes that these"^ superior adjunct faculty, and~ more readily out the whole fojir-year prograBL, This synthesis courses with the platform professional courses have room for them. Radical reconsideration of and the wide range of speciaha^oiis to come.) Moreover, we are ^persuaded that recruitment alternatives_ _i s a satisfactory- solution serving the working student. has been the major source of strength-in our wiS become more diQloatt in a two-year college the future of the (undergraduate work at the to~aH~of e problem before it. Tndeftfl, it reports 5. It takes into account the changing situation whole educational undertaking. In response to, the question as to "what in the Baruch School is in or4ex%______-— r~ Colloquium was most valuable to them, the pre­ of business^ and pgbHc axhrniiistratiorL Able men its belief that there is no single solution or combi­ of New^ York City and of its University. To understand the structure of the Baruch are less likely to be-attracted to a college that Thirteen y^ars ago, tbe^Board of Higher Educa­ nation of solutions which promises to be com­ 6. It provides, local control of plant, mainte­ dominant number of freshmen asked have told J tion opened up curricular opportunities with School program, the Comnaittee is earnestly re- us, how important this early perspective was al­ can be labeled, howevjer, in^correetly, a? a "voca- pletely satisfying to all concerned. It comes to a nance, and associated matters, thereby permitting quested to stwry our "^Ikirricular TSourse Chart" tional" school. RecrTdtnient is particCilarfy diffi­ specialization-„ • • ~ - s in ~Accountanc <, , y at th, e othe., j-r . senio, r clear conclusion, however, based on the desire to lcx^~mitiative to cope with problems not readily ready proving to be. The awareness that, liberal (^cliibix A) whic^is^used to provide curricular arts and professional courses would come to them cult m our professional fields because we must colleges Queens CoUege has now decided to close provide for undergraduate and graduate business dealt with at long range. ~ giiidance to^stu^ents so that they see dearly how compete not only vdth other institutions bait with out such specializations. It would seem wise to students at each stag«^ e of their cprogres s the "best 7. It brings together in one strong professional in something of a "balanced -diet?— gave direction * permit the Baruch School, the one institution of TibWal arts study is interwoven^with professional and purposiveness, they felt, to. their liberal arts a business commuiiity- that can offer much higher possible basis for life"^areers.' school atll of the resources of the (5ity University study. v compensation than the academic worlds Specialists" the City University with specializations in busK for professional education in business. . ^ work and vitality and broadening to their first ness studies, to garner, in the junior and senior RecommendatioBS The educational value of this approach is wide­ pre-professional courses. ~ in our fields are usually men who have not only 8. It retains the historic connection— between a professional compfttence brrt who nrp m^t^^tM years the full enrollment to which such specializa­ 1. That the Baruch School continue to be a part The City College and its School ©;f Business while ly accepted. It is the only effective way to achieve An additional c.hg^k mf TTppAy- Sophfimnroc i-* tions might be said to entitle it. The few score of The City College of the City University of the obj^rfcise of educating 4fee weB^rou-udedrtmsi- „ . . ,- ^ ., . . . . - » i . ' by a desire for the intellectual hfe. The presence New York as an "Ppper-Division CoKege and at thb samo time strengthening administratis Of students lost from each of the other colleges anoSs^upport services nt the Bnrnch School so as ness executive or public officer. In our judgment, eraCurricular^Guidancl to confirm thee valu^erviewe thast oucontinuer students ins genfeel- of a Uberal arts- faculty with whom they may would hardly be missed there; hut at the Baruch Graduate Sckpbl of Business and Public it would be ,an irony of tragic proportions if, in thev have ^Priv^d" from ^g "<l^oi^' liberaiTT^r^Tl f art^^^^T^^T^^^T^s and business durin^g TT^TtheirZ \ * . ^ ™ ^etahiiiig^the^iOTRr of^ihtellectuiaTproa - transfer inu-Jhe- iimior year wojild^^naka B—real Thatr the -Bar^tch SctexJ -as^ ^ht^^^onstituted \ " David I. Ashe, Chaii cation, students of business ajid public m- jfirst two years at the Baruch School. fessipnals. needed by a branch of the City Uni­ rl T"Pff*yf>Tiog ._ - i _! ^ • - versity. • . , . ' be si^ua^d-in--fee-4ower-part of Manhattan Renato J»_Azz^ri stration were~^to be denied the oppo: Students seeking degrees in business and public The third hew factor in the present situation Island. Frederick H. Burkhardt study hberal arts courses in their junior and sen­ administration in an upper-division coJlege-jsill be +—FW Effect on Em oDment is the growth in number and size of community 3. That business specializations belio longer of- Henry E. Schultz ior yearSi That would be the inevitable result of asked' to^ undergo greater hardships than those Reduction of the Baruch School to ah ^upper- colleges since the .GottreljLReport. ferfi^L in the senior colleges o£ tfee City Uni­ Porter R^Chandler, ex officio an upper-division policy. experienced by their confreres in other fields. division college would * inevitably result in a -There are six community colleges in the City versity, except at the Baruch School. . Jack 1. Poses, ex officio The disruption of. this balanced curriculum After an initial two years of adjustment to col^ ^mailer ewrollmetit of business anf students seek business degrees <«ee -4he- high -sdiool:~subjects pre-—rh'otivatioTi for an ardiimis seven- or eight-year the figures in our Task Force Report, pages 7-8) > sented for entrance and the cut-off point. The regimen. If they were required to take the first an apper-division^potiey- would discourage enroll­ latter is geared to available space rather than sig­ two years of liberal arts work (over a four-year ment of such students in the City "University's nificant differences in student capacity, and the span of time) at a campus that is distant from program of-Education for Business for the fol­ fluctuating cut-off points during the past decade their work sites, the J burden would be. too great. lowing reasons: are clear indications of this point.... The*City TJiirversity has a duty to provide facili­ ~ 1. The quality of education for\ ^Business and There is no basis in educational theory for re­ ties for t£iem in a unitary college that is readily its reputation in both the academic and business quiring students *>f business and public admini­ accessible anxiis geared to their needs. communities would puffer because of the impair­ stration to meet arbitrary requirements set for ~ ' ' ' V. Effefcflm T iberal Arts — ment of curriculum as indk Students at liberal arts, in the ligntof existing It fe/understandable that liberal -arts schools. 2. The need for shifting- from one campus to social needs, there can be no justification at this another at the end of two years would result-in and men whose principal concern has been liberal time ibrredufmg the numbFy of candidatpp for arts edueattenshould be more, sympathetic to a the many studentsi who had originally contem­ Business and public administration -by" exclusion, plated seeking business and public administratioii policy that would favor recruitment for liberaT and .tojcftvertjfchoseadinitted from their original arts schools. But *his is hardly appropriate a- lame de^ees. The Ration.ofjjersonal faes with other intent by i^rnpe^the^^syend, two years on when thereis no paucity of" sucbSudents. If any- students, involvement in student activities on the a campus that has no special interest in their thing, a present pressing problem of the Uty •port-of-entry^ campus, the need to experience career objectives. __.»».*'•-*'«*University is its inability to' absorb all the libera-Jl. a "double wrench" aft^-iot adjustment to <*>ik»gp arts applicants. There can be no* rational justifiea- ha. „„„*-d been, made i^n~ th.^_J^.e first . location^„_A__, plu^ s* _th ._«__e fac.­ - : 5 B^Eaness aa#~public a&nmistration students tor of inertia, would mean the loss of many stu­ ^rhose specific interests are in Economics, Fi­ tion for aftempfetg to' discourage and divert stu­ dents. . __.._•''_ nance, Psychology (particularly Industrial Psy­ dents from entering upon instruction in business and public administration in order to inflate the B. We do not hesitate to^face frankly the fact chology_ ) and Public Administration courses are likely to remain on the liberal arts oses un- already unmanageable number of would-be liberal that exposure to two. solid years of liberal arts (less they fmd ttie offerings of these departments arts students. study will cause many students who were origin- completely unsatisfactory. A student who has ~ .. - ,. . . „ __ _,„ ally oriented towards business and pubHcaVmimi- B^&air&fm^nes with faculty memrjersln these1xiJ^SSr 2^" '2!^^™*°* ^-l!"^ ^ a s wm two xs not believe that the Board would the Stndent Center or in fire collection boxes want to initiate.a venture that has no prospect on the main floor. Phorn of survival, much less of success, and no educa­ tional justification. -