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I CANADA's LARGEST CREDIT UNION Owned by The Ctironicle VOLUME 27, No. 1, SPRING 1973 FEATURES Annual 5 THE OPEN UNIVERSITY - Introduction to a four-article symposium on the Open University 6 BRITAIN’S OPEN UNIVERSITY The Sneers Have Changed To Respect Wilby Peter 12 WHY WE SHOULD CREATE A 6.C.-STYLE OPEN UNIVERSITY John Ellis 15 NEW CONDITIONS DICTATE NEW DIRECTIONS FOR UNIVERSITIES Clive Cocking 17 TIME FOR A CHANGE IN UBC’S EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHY Clive Cocking 19 B.C.’S COMMUNITY COLLEGES The Democratization of Education Hayalrawa Wilf Bennett S.I. 22 THE POSSIBILITY OF TRIUMPH The guest speaker, Roy Daniells,a profile Eric Green Dr. S.I. Hayakawa, is an 28 ALUMNI ASSOCIATION BOARD OF internationally known MANAGEMENT 1973-74 semanticist and author. A native 36 ANNUAL REPORT OF ALUMNI GIVING of B.C., he recently retired as president of California State DEPARTMENTS College. 26 BOOKS 32 ALUMNI NEWS Monday, May 28,1973 40 SPOTLIGHT Hotel Vancouver 6 p.m. 45 LETTERS The evening’s program will EDITORClive Cocking, BA’62 include the Alumni Association’s EDITORIALASSISTANT Susan Jamieson, BA’65 annual meeting. COVERAnnette Breukelman ADVERTISINGREPRESENTATIVE Early reservations are advised forthis event. Alumni Media, (604-688-6819) ...................................................... EDITORIALCOMMITTEE Mrs. R.W. Wellwood, BA’51. chairman; Frank C Mail to: Annual Dinner, UBC Alumni Association Walden, BA’49,past chairman; Elaine Bougie, Arts4; 6251 N.W. Marine Dr., Vancouver 8, Robert Dundas, BASc’48; Mrs. Frederidk Field, B.C. (228-3313) BA’42; Harry Franklin, BA’49; Geoff Hancock,Arts 4; Dr. Joseph Katz, (BA,MEd, Manitoba), (PhD, Chicago); Please send me tickets for the UBC Alumni e TrevorLautens, (BA,McMaster); MacAlpine.Ian ....... LLB’71; Mrs. Nathan Nemetz, BA’35; Dr.Ross Stewart, AssociationAnnual Dinner. Enclosed is my BA’46, MA’48, (PhD, Washington); Dr. Erich Vogt, cheque (payable to the UBC Alumni Association, (BSc, MSc, Manitoba), (PhD, Princeton). $6.75/person) for $ ............................................... Published quarterly by the Alumni Association of the University of British Columbia. Vancouver, Canada. Business and edi- toriai offices: Cecil Green Park, 6251 N.W. Marina Dr., Vancou- Name .................................................................... ver 8, B.C. (604-228-3313). SUBSCRIPTIONS: The Alumni Chronicle is sent to ail alumni of the university. Non-alumni subscriptions are available at $3 Address ................................................................. a year, students $1 a year. Postage paid at the Third Class rate. Permlt No. 2067. ............................................................................. Member American Alumni Council. 3 San Francisco.A $5some credit at first-classrestaurants. Just two hours and ten minutes from Vancouver. A free cruise around The Bay. OnFriday-to-Sunday a excursion, And a free round trip on thecablecar. the airfareis only $99. Anytimeyou want to go. $29.95, plusairfare. And all it takes to buy two days there is $29.95. See your CP Air travel agent. That includes hotelaccon nmodations. Clang! A complimentary cocktail I he Open University P HE MAN WITH THE MAILBAG, pictured here, sym- Tbolizes the new direction emerging in higher education today: the drive to deliver educational services to more people at more convenient times and places than ever before. The mailbag contains sophisticated learning packages to be mailed to stu- dents. It is part of a regular despatch from Britain’s Open University, the one institutionwhich has had the greatest influence on this new direction. Universities around theworld, in increasing num- bers, are beginning to break out of their traditional academic cloisters and - by means of everything from flexible entrance requirements to storefront colleges - are providing educational opportunities to many more people who can benefit from them. This new wave, however, has yet to be felt in university education in British Columbia. In the case of UBC, the educational style is as it has always been: lecture-dominated, full-time, day-time study from September to May each year. Yet it is not as though many of the needs and pressures which have ledto innovations in approach to university education elsewhere do not exist in B.C. They do exist here;they are, in large measure, reflective of modern urban life. It appears likely, in fact, that therewill be increasing public pressure for greaterflexibility and accessibility to our univer- sity system. As one example, a UBCAlumni Asso- ciation survey of alumni opinion a yearago revealed a very strong feeling that the University should do more in continuing education. In the interest of more public awareness of the increasingly important issue of accessibility to uni- versity education, theChronicle offers on the follow- ing pages a discussionof Britain’s Open University, its record to date,what aspects of it mightprofitabili- ty be implemented in B.C. and, in general, what needs to be done to make university education avail- able to more people in B.C. We would welcome hearing your views on this issue. 5 HE LARGEST UNIVERSITY in Brit- Walton Hall, the humble head- Tain isnow theOpen Univer- quarters at Bletchely, outside BRITAIN’S sity, with over 40,000 students. London, of Britain’s pioneering Now in its third year, it has just new ‘second chance’ university, produced its first graduates: 867 the Open University. OPEN men and women who were able to complete their degreesin the short- study”. As a departmentof educa- est possible time because previous tion publication put it some years UNIVERSITY successes in higher education gave later,the Open University “both them some exemption from Open resultedfrom scientific progress University courses. For better or and will, it is hoped, contribute to worse,the Open University - it.” which requires no formal entry The years of Labourgovernment qualifications and whose students - 1964 to 1970 -were, forthe most I ne sneers include dustmen and labourers, as part,years of disillusionment for well as a former Lord High Chan- British radicalism. Many of the cellor of Great Britain - is an grand designs described in the elec- Have established part of the British edu- tion campaign were shelved.Yet cational scene and, from now on, the Open Universitysurvived those its role will become more and more six years of economic crises, cuts Changed important. Whether that role is the in public expenditure, freezes and one envisaged for it by its founders squeezes. It even survived the elec- is another matter. tion - six months before its first To Respect But the wonder of the Open broadcast lecture - of a new gov- University is that it exists at all. ernment which had threatened, on It is arguably the greatest political several occasions, to strangle it at Peter W i Iby miracle of post-war Britain. The birth . idea of a “University of the Air”, The OU survived, not merely be- as it was called through much of cause it was part of. Wilson’s its planning stage when getting a de- technological revolution, but also gree through television and radio because the idea had a place in the seemed the most distinctive and ex- very soul of the Labour Party. After citing aspect, was first mooted pub- Labour’s return to power, Wilson licly by Harold Wilson in a speech appointed Miss Jennie (now Baron- in Glasgow in September 1963. The ess) Lee as Minister of Arts at the notion was wholly typical of those Department of Education. It was heady days, when the new Labour her job to establish the OU. leader was launching anelection Miss Lee was the widowof campaign that, a year later, was to Aneurin Bevan, a fiery, impassion- end in narrow success. ed Welshman, who was the leader It combined, in a single slogan, and the conscienceof Labour’s left- the chief passions of that remark- wing during most of post-war Brit- able campaign: education, techno- ain until his death in 1960. Like logical progress and equality. Wil- many early Labourstalwarts, he son’s speech,in the language of the was a self-educated manand had time, envisaged “a dynamic pro- left school to work in the mines at gram providing facilities for home 14. Partly by voracious reading in 6 his spare time and partly by a period cluded theVice-Chancellor of guage courses that could be taken of study at a LabourCollege in Lon- Cambridge University, the present not only by overseas sales execu- don,Bevan, said his university- andformer Vice-Chancellors of tives in industry but also by families educated wife, came to know “a Sussex University, the best-known planning to take a holiday abroad. greatdeal more abouthistory, of the new universities created in Nor could it make concessions to philosophy,poetry, economics, the 1960s, and the ubiquitous Lord those who had left school at 14 or than I did.” This convincedher that Goodman, chairman of theArts 15 and had no formal education - “there is groupa of natural scholars Council and solicitor and confidante much less an academic education at every income level”, that there of the Prime Minister, confirmed -for 20 or 30 years. The OU gave were thousands like her husband thatthe government’s intentions its blessing to the“Gateway” who did not haveuniversity degrees were serious. By 1969, the Univer- courses provided by the only because they had never had sity had a Vice-Chancellor, Royala Cambridge-based National Exten- a chance. Charter and the outlinesof an aca- sion College in 1970-71, but it did This deeply-held conviction sus- demic syllabus. not itself provide any preparatory tained Miss Lee through six years Hostility in established academic courses. The Vice-Chancellor be- of struggle to bring the OU to birth. circles, however, grew as the Uni- lieved “that it was necessary for the According to oneof her colleagues versity became a reality. A univer- in the government, the Open owed sity, it was argued, must be a com- nearly everythingto Miss Lee’s munity of scholars -the OU could Lab assistant cuts rock samples “utter unreasonableness- you can not possibly be anything of the sort.
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