CEP Ratifies Doty Report On Education

The Committee on Educational Policy approved the final draft for the Doty Committee Report in its last meeting of the year Wednesday.

The report is now in the hands of the printers and copies of the document will be mailed out to members of the Faculty Monday afternoon.

Dean Ford said last week that the report had not recommended any major changes in the General Education Program. A few smaller "constructive" alterations in the present system, however, have been suggested in the report, he added. Ford had expected that the Doty Committee's report would be approved by the CEP.

Further Action in Fall

The CEP reviewed a draft copy of the report late last March and returned it to the Doty Committee in April. Doty said that his group had "gotten a number of good ideas" from the CEP. "They contributed more than mere suggestion," he said.

First Stage Over

With the approval of the report the first stages in the reappraisal of the 17-year-old General Education comes to a close. The next step in the process will be for the CEP to incorporate the report's recommendations into legislation concerning Gen. Ed. The CEP will begin drafting such legislation next fall.

The Doty Committee, chaired by Paul M. Doty, professor of Chemistry, was appointed by Dean Ford in October, 1962, to "ask basic questions about the proper role of the American college at a time when the greater part of our students are going to professional and graduate schools."

Previous Study

The study was the first overall re-examination of the General Education program in its history. There was one previous study conducted in 1959, but it reviewed only the General Education courses in the Natural Sciences. The 1959 report recommended virtually no changes in the program.