Chalmers talks of trends
"Changing Trends in Education Today" and "Changing Trends in Our Society" were the combined topics of a speech given Tuesday morning at Barstow School in Kansas City, Mo., by KU Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr.
"If university administration is difficult today," Chalmers said in an advance text, "It is not because the job is inherently more difficult than other professions. Rather, it is because conflicting value systems are most likely to clash in the administration building of a college or university campus than they are in business, or even in government.
Chalmer's said that although the conflict is not inherent, the potential is there. He said that the addition of social problems is the basis for conflicting values. He said that there were "at least two basic value systems that are becoming polarized to an ever-increasing degree.
"I... assume we seek solutions that do not totally subjugate one value system to the other, but solutions that will lead to a healthy synthesis of both or at least a mutually advantageous symbiosis of both systems," he said.
He said that the first step toward the resolution, or de-polarization, would be mutual understanding of the conflict. He said
if the educational institutions could not provide leadership, they deserved to be "devoured by our citizens."
He said that the first change he noticed was student participation in the decision-making processes of higher education. He said that this was bound to affect secondary education to some extent.
"Today, on campuses like mine, students make the final decisions on extra-curricular rules and regulations." Chalmers said. "Moreover, they have proven themselves to be immensely conscientious and able in these endeavors."
He said that "relevance" was the "in-word" in academic decisions. He said that the efforts toward relevance have produced conscientious and capable reactions when students have been allowed to participate.
"More important," Chalmers said, "it provides the impetus to complete the innovative efforts of the sixties, the opportunity for academic administrators to facilitate change."
He said many people would misinterpret suggestions for innovations in the area of faculty performance as rubber-stamped criticism of faculty members. He said most faculty members are dedicated and conscientious and would make changes if the opportunity and incentive to change were provided.
Chalmers outlined some of the changes predicted for the 1970's in the educational systems and society as a whole. Some of the changes he outlined were:
- Use of the society as an academic, rather than completely extra-curricular, sphere of learning.
- Student participation in areas up to the decision making level of university degree requirement programs.
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- Students helping in evaluations of academic endeavors such as testing materials and learning methods.
NEW YORK (UPI) — Former President Lyndon B. Johnson has forced Columbia Broadcasting Company to delete a segment of a forthcoming television interview in which he reportedly voiced doubts about the "single assassin" conclusion of the Warren Commission report on the slaying of President John F. Kennedy, it was disclosed Tuesday
he was discussed Tuesday. The Washington Post quoted a CBS source as saying Johnson frankly voiced reservations about the Warren report's conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone, shot the President to death in Dallas. Johnson said his doubts were grounded in the "motivations and connections" of Oswald, who had been a defector to the Soviet Union, the paper said.
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Walter Cronkite said he could not comment on the request "until after the show."
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