C.E.P. Report
In this fall's report on activities during the academic year 1958-33, the Committee on Educational Policy announced its completion of an appraisal of the Great Issues course, and the inauguration of a new Physical Education proficiency program which., passed by the faculty last May, is now in operation. Under this plan, the former two-year Physical Education requirement has been dropped, and four ability tests are administered at the beginning of the fall semester to all freshmen not excused for medical reasons.
Depending upon their composite score in rope climbing, the standing broad jump, speed agility, and swimming tests, the freshmen are classified as Group A, B or C. Those achieving Group A are exempt from all physical education activities. Of the 600 who completed the tests, 134 freshmen were excused after satisfactorily passing all four tests. The remaining freshmen must take Physical Education, with those in Group B having a free choice of activities, and those in Group C taking prescribed activities. If at the end of the freshman year a student is still in Group C, he will continue to take Physical Education in the sophomore year, but with a free choice of activities and the opportunity at the end of the first semester to take the proficiency tests again.
The major emphasis of the eight-member Committee on Educational Policy continues to be on the study of the curriculum for the first two years. Frequent conferences with the staffs of the courses under consideration, and the study of questionnaires which were submitted to chairmen and directors will be used by the Committee to evaluate the aims and problems of the departments and the relationship of the courses to the total program of student education through the sophomore year.
With Prof. Anton A. Raven as Chairman and Prof. Charles L. Stone '17 presently serving as Acting Chairman, other matters taken up included the appointment of committees to consider proposals for a new freshman orientation course, to review the ROTC programs, and to examine the premedical curriculum.
