pg Non-Profit Org. U. S. Postage PAID !'\ll1h Permit No. 2147 Philadelphia, Pa. VOL. 5, NO. 7 APRIL 1959 Recent Actions and Recommendations of Educational Council Reported At the March 12, 1959 meeting of the Educational be changed so that it consist of a smaller body of persons Council President Gaylord P. Harnwell reported that: from the various fields of the arts and sciences "and (1) the Annenberg School of Communications expects especially designated by the Provost because of their to have an experimental program in operation during the interest and experience in the problems of education of coming fall, women"; and that this faculty be charged with "the re- (2) the search for a director of the school has brought sponsibility of considering the special problems involved a number of candidates to the campus for interview, one in the liberal arts education for women"-its recommenda- of whom is considering an offer of the position, tions for special requirements or curricula to be referred, in the fashion, for consideration the Com- (3) a committee, under the chairmanship of Dr. customary by John R. Brobeck, Chairman and Professor of mittee on Educational Policy and approval by the Educa- Physiology, tional Council. has made an oral report regarding its mission to make recommendations for the position of Vice-President for After a discussion of these recommendations, the Medical Affairs and is expected to make a final report in Council approved (though not unanimously) the follow- the near future, and ing resolution: (4) a sum of $25,000 has been set aside to establish a "Resolved, that the recommendations of the Educational language laboratory in Logan Hall. Policy Committee relating to women's undergraduate For the Committee on the Advancement of Research, education in the liberal arts and sciences be approved, Dr. William M. Protheroe, Assistant Professor of Astron- with the understanding that the matter will be re-opened omy, reported that of 25 applications for summer grants should the Administration receive from other sources ad- received, 8 awards had been made in the following areas: vice or information of a substantial nature which would Physical Sciences (1), Biological Sciences (2), Social suggest the wisdom of such a course of action." Sciences (2), and Humanities (3). Fourteen of the re- The Council also a resolution ten were considered so meritorious that adopted approving maining applications recommendations of the Educational Policy Committee they have been forwarded to the Provost (in order of relating to the of the Committee recommended in the that funds be report University-wide priority) hope might on Teacher Education, with the understanding that in the found for their implementation. judgment of the chairman of the latter committee the tenth Dr. Philip E. Jacob, Professor of Political Science and recommendation need not be implemented at this time in Chairman of the Committee on Educational Policy, re- view of previous actions of the Council with respect to the ported that the committee has referred the Survey on preparation of college teachers. Nursing Education by outside consultants back to the These recommendations are as follows: President with a that it be reviewed an request by appro- that an Academic Year priate campus group before the Committee frames any (1) Institute for High School definitive recommendations about it. Such a review is now Teachers of the Humanities and/or Social Sciences, to in parallel the existing Academic Year Institute for High progress. School Teachers of Science and Mathematics, be estab- Five recommendations to the Educational relating lished as soon as special resources for such programs Survey on Undergraduate Education in the Liberal Arts can be obtained; and Sciences Part II-Women's Education were pre- that sented by Dr. Jacob. They are substantially as follows: (2) more use be made of advanced Placement that, as a general policy, separate classes for women and Programs for entering Freshmen under the auspices of the men students be abolished; that the separate social struc- College Board or other responsible agencies, in subjects ture for women students be maintained; that the which are taught at the high school level, in the belief that College a of Liberal Arts for Women be continued under a separate such policy will, among other things, aid in recruiting dean and faculty; that the constitution of the said faculty (Continued on page four) THE ALMANAC 2 Procedure Fellowships and Scholarships Medical Emergency Dean Roy F. Nichols of the Graduate School of Arts To clarify procedures for handling medical emergencies and Sciences announced on 1 the award of approxi- on the campus, a statement regarding the steps to be taken April medical care is mately two hundred fellowships and scholarships to to assure rapid attention when required students and prospective students, selected from an unprec- is being distributed to all departments. edented flood of nearly nine hundred applications. These Like most other voluntary hospitals, the University awards do not include appointments to posts as teaching or Hospital has not for years maintained its own ambulance research assistants, all of which are made departmentally. service, nor does it have personnel assigned to go to the The marked increase of be attributed scene of emergencies. Experience has shown that under applications may the most available in part to the rising demand for graduate education, but nearly all circumstances quickly help much of it, Dean Nichols believes, is a response to the is the police ambulance, which can be dispatched by radio two with the first announce- communication. Police personnel are equipped to provide program inaugurated years ago trained ment of the University Fellowships, a new class of awards such emergency service as may be required and are that provides stipends of $2,000 and free tuition, making in first aid. a total value of $3,000. (Last year the Graduate School A summary of the procedures to be observed follows: awarded 16 such Fellowships. This year the number rose Medical Emergencies on the Campus to 21.) AMBULANCE REQUIRED At the time these University Fellowships were initiated, dial "0", and tell the Dr. R. Nixon, of I. Go to any telephone, operator, the Graduate School brought in Eugene "I need an ambulance." STAY at the telephone until the Chemistry Department, as Vice-Dean to concentrate have the location of the to the and with some addi- you given emergency on fellowships scholarships, along ambulance service or the University operator. tional attention to admissions. Dr. Nixon has been 2. When the ambulance arrives, inform the officer concerned with the of the police particularly improvement that the patient is to be taken to the Receiving Ward University's showing on national programs such as those at the of the National Science Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson University Hospital. Foundation, and the Ford Foundation. The Graduate PERSONS ABLE TO WALK School has also assisted departments in improving their I. Students: Report to the Student Health Service, Third publicity for awards to assistants and part-time instructors, Floor, Gates Pavilion, entrance off Spruce Street. for whom the University has made substantial efforts to (Service is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, improve stipends and collateral benefits. except during the Christmas holidays and from June The expansion of Graduate School participation in 15 to September 15. When Student Health is not open, national programs such as those mentioned above requires report to the Receiving Ward as indicated below.) more time to produce results but the response has been 2. Faculty, Staff, and Employees: Report to the Receiving encouraging, especially with the Woodrow Wilson Fellow- Ward at the University Hospital. (The Receiving Ward ships. In 1957, Dr. Nixon compiled and distributed a is always open for the treatment of any emergency and directory of both pre-doctoral and post-doctoral fellow- is located at the rear of the Hospital. Enter the Hos- ships, scholarships, grants, and awards. This directory is pital grounds via the driveway between the Men's still available in the Graduate School but revision has not Dormitories and the Hospital at 36th and Spruce Streets. been undertaken for the present since a national directory Turn left at the first opportunity and follow the is now published and may be consulted in the Graduate emergency signs.) School office. Copies are to be made available elsewhere and their distribution will be announced later in The A Imanac. New Medical Quarterly Bows The expansion of the Woodrow Wilson Fellowships, A new quarterly magazine, Medical Affairs, has been with money from the Ford Foundation, has brought an launched jointly by the University's School of Medicine and increased number of carefully selected graduate students Graduate School of Medicine. Not intended as a scientific to the Graduate School, and has provided additional journal, it will contain editorials by leaders in fields of awards to superior graduates of the University's under- interest related to medicine, articles by faculty and alumni, graduate schools who wish to begin graduate studies at news of development at the Schools, news of alumni, book other universities. reviews, and activities of faculty members. Serving as An innovation of generous fellowships for a "disserta- Editor is Mr. Alan C. Davis, Director of Medical Informa- tion year" has been conducted for two years by the Samuel tion in the University's Public Relations Office. S. Fels Fund, and appointments have now been made for According to Dr. I. S. Ravdin, Vice-President for the third year, 1959-1960. These awards are restricted to Medical Development, "Medical Affairs is a major step students in the Humanities and the Social Sciences, forward in the development of closer communication be- stipends being as much as $4,000.