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Iliad/r 9 2 1938

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The University Senate met in the Lecture Room of
President McVey presided.

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A ’efi hall Acnday, May 9, 133s.

The minutes of April 11 were read and approved,

 

 

Professor Trimble, Chairman of the Curriculum Committee read to the Senate a
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statement reviewing the work of this committee.
follows:

 

 

_ "Since this is the last meeting of the Senate for the year
at which this committee canreport it may be in order for us to tell
you something of what we have been doing and plan to do in the near

future.

 

"The committee at one of it
the heads of the various departmen
ment outlining as completely as no

meetings decided to ask

 

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ts to prepare for it a statee
ssiole the function of his
department and the boundaries of its field of work. We then asmed
each dean for a similar statement relative to his college, and have
asked the President for one concerning the University as a whole.

 

 

 

 

"The statements from the deans revealed considerable overm
lapping of purDOSe as did the statements of the various department
heads. We have not yet had time to go into the matter of duplicae
tion of courses but at an early meeting of the Senate next fall we
expect to have some concrete recommendations to make to the Senate
on this question."

 

 

 

At a previous meeting of the Senate, Dean Wiest had presented recommen‘etions
from the College of Commerce calling for chenges in curricula as follows:

1. Drop Business English as a required course from
the SecretarialmTraining Curriculum and add l
Commerce 145, Problems in Office Management,

 

 

 

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Add Commerce 107, Statistical Method, to the
required list of courses in the Combined Commercee
Law Course.

By the ruling of the Chairman and subsequent action of the Senate these
recommendations were referred to the Curriculum Committee. In its report this
committee recommended to the Senate: 1. That Commerce 107, Statistical
Method, be added to the required list of courses in the Combined CommerceeLaw
Course; 23 That Commerce 145, Problems in Office Management, be added to the
SecretarialaTraining Curriculum, but that Business English be not dropped from
this curriculum at this time. These recommendations were approved by the
Senate.