Undergraduate work and the University of North Carolina
By: by Edgar W. Knight
Contributors: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries
Published: 2005
Place of publication: [Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Higher Education; History; Universities and colleges; Aims and objectives; Curriculum change; Curricula; Students; College students; University of North Carolina (1793-1962)
Other titles: True and candid compositions : the lives and writings of Antebellum students in North Carolina.
Description: Written in 1934, this is an unpublished study of curriculum change in American universities up to that time. The report documents the gradual shift of American higher education away from the classical European model to a more pragmatic curriculum.  The author then discusses recent educational innovations such as the Columbia Plan and the Chicago Plan, as well as plans developed at Sarah Lawrence College, Bennington College, and the General College of the University of Minnesota.  The report closes with a detailed analysis of the University of North Carolina, including discussion and statistics on student/teacher ratio, teaching loads, faculty composition, number of courses offered in each department, student performance, preparation of students for college, requirements for admission as they changed over time, and a final section of suggestions for improving UNC.
Notes: Title from electronic title page (viewed August 18, 2005)

The original typescript includes materials that were pasted onto the typewritten pages. Portions of pages 148 and 152-154 are pasted material.

"A report on recent tendencies and present problems in undergraduate work in some American institutions of higher learning."

This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digitization project's database, Documenting the American South.  It is a part of the collection True and candid compositions: the lives and writings of Antebellum students in North Carolina.

Text transcribed by Apex Data Services, Inc.  Images scanned by Brian Dietz. Text encoded by Apex Data Services, Inc., Brian Dietz, and Elizabeth S. Wright.

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Transcribed from typescript of: Undergraduate work and the University of North Carolina / by Edgar W. Knight, The University of North Carolina. ii, 212 p. "Chapel Hill, N. C., November 1,1934."

Funding from the State Library of North Carolina supported the electronic publication of this title.

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