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Minutes of the University Senate ~ February 12, 1940

and r. Cohen, and with Professor Downing narticinating in a symnosium on
the teaching of high school mathematics. Professor Latimer was elected
to the Council of the American Mathematical Society. Dr. Cohen observed
that the society this year placed an unusually large emnhasis upon the
problems involved in the teaching of mathematics.

President McVey reported briefly on a meeting of 13 university presidents
of the middle west, at which the general problem of regional cooperation
and coordination was considered“ President McVey cited examples of the
possibilities in this field of regional cooperation. He stated that the
president of each institution had been asked to report the narticular
fields of interest which the institution is and should be giving special
emohasis in its graduate nrogram. He invited suggestions from the facul~
ty to be used in making this statement for the University of Kentuck'.

 
    

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MINUTES OF THE UNIVERSITY SENATE
March 11, 1940

The University Senate met in the Assembly Room of Lafferty Hall, Monday,
March 11, 1940. In the absence of President McVey, Dean Boyd presided.

The minutes of February 12 were read and apnroved.

Dean Funkhouser read to the University Senate the following recommenda~
tion from the Graduate Faculty, with respect to honorary degrees to be
granted at the June Commencement:

”The Graduate Faculty recommends that Justice Stanley Forman
Reed be extended a second invitation to attend the University Comw
mencement to receive the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. The
granting of the degree to Justice Reed was annroved last year, by
the Senate and the University Board of Trustees.

The Graduate Faculty also recommends that the degree of Door
tor of Laws be granted to the following at the commencement in
June, 1940: Governor Keen Johnson, President Frank L. McVey, and
Frances Jewell McVey."

AS the rules of the University Senate provide that recommendations for
honorary degrees must lay over for one month, the Senate took no action
on these recommendations at this meeting.

Professor John Kuiper, Chairman of the Curriculum Committee, read the
following report from the Committee:

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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"The is go of Arts and Sciences makes the following recommen=

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datious to t.r 1e Senate:

1,

To redmce the credit in

(a) Music 339, b, Elementary Harmony and Dictation from (5) to (4),
(b) Music 42 Se emin9r from (2) to (1}.

To replace Art 10 Public School Art {2) with Art lOa,b, Public
School Art 2,2)
Students in element 9ry education nee d four or edits in art for the
elementary teaching certificate. This proposed change will pro"
vide the credit; it will also orovide 9 coutent adapt ed to the

 

 

 

nrecise needs of this special grout of students. The descriptions
of Art 109 9nd Art 10b are as follows”

Art 103 Public 51001 Art (2) 1,11, s
A study of esSentiel cisciulines in art: definitions, inim

 

tial concepts, principles; techniques, elementary skills through
oractice in design, drawing, lettering; forms of art: analysis
and interorotation on an elementary level. Biblio graohies, teach"
ins materials. For students in elementary education“ Lectures,
four studio hours and weekly problems.

£33 10b Public School Art (2) I II s

*Anplication of essential art discinlines to classroom activ~
itie 5, in orepsration for teaching art in the elementary grades.
Units in collaboration with other studies; posters, charts, DTO"
grams, eto.; exnloration of materials, tools, processes. Bibliog»

 

raphies, te9chi ng mate ri9ls. For students in elementary education,
Prerenuis ite: Art 109. Lectures, four studio hours and weekly
problems.

The Curriculum Committee recommends the aphroval of these changes in Music

and Art

course in Phys

Physics 529,b Introduction to th

courses.

The Colle of Arts and Sciences 9150 recommends the following

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week on the conter t of Physics 519,b 9nd to be taken, if desired,
simultaneous sly with Physics 519,b .

Physics 519,b is 9 large lecturemdemonstration course permitting no
student oarticipation by way of recitation or class discussion. To
provide the good student an opportunity, if he desires it, to sunnlee
ment the lecture course with a oneshour weekly recitation on the sub"
jectamatter of the lectures 9nd assigned readings in Physics 51, the
Phys‘cs denartment is prooosing to offer Physics 529, b, a oneshour
recit9t ion course, to be t9k en concurrently with Physics 519,b.

The novelty of this arrangement is th9t the recitation cl9ss

will be ootional with the student, if he can nu9lify. The usual
method of solving the problem confronting the Physics Deoartment is

to

make the recitation 9 suoplementary but an essential part of the

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While the Committee agrees thht a recitation and discussion section
would be valuable to students in Physics 51a,b it feels that there are
weighty objections to the pronosal as presented to the Senate:

1. To offer an Optional recitation section to the better students in
Physics 51a,b would, in effect, result in two groups in Physics 51, one of
which would be receiving additional instruction in the same subject matter
as the other group and would reasonably be expected to excel it in quality
of work done. In fairness to the second group there would need to be
separate written assignments and examinations, introducing the need of a
double standard of eValuation in the work of Physics 51a,b.

The Committee doubts the wisdom of setting such a precedent of Option“
31 recitations for the better students, when the mediocre and poorer stu—
dents are not beiwg provided with the same choice. Surely the pedagogical
value of a recitation class is not confined to the better students. What
reasonable excuse could be given to a mediocre student who earnestly de-
sired to take the recitation class?

2. Since freshmen are allowed to take Physics 51a,b it would be ex-
tremely difficult to choose among the first semester crOp which ones were
eligible to take Physics 52. The selection would probably have to be con"
fined to those who had already had one semester of Physics 51.

3. It seems also to the Committee, in View of the present congestion
of the University schedule that the introduction of additional one~hour
courses, except for limited groups like department majors, should be avoided
if possible. A oneehour course, unless it comes in the very late afternoon,
may ruin a threeehour sequence or an afternoon laboratory course coming once
a week at the same time as the onemhour course.

The Curriculum Committee does not wish to appear obstructive to new
ways of solving old problems. The proposed course, Physics 52a,b does not
seem to effect a satisfactory solution of the problem to be solved in that
it would discourage many students who need recitation and discussion from
seeking it; it would set up an unwise precedent or making the credit in one
and the same subject~matter optional; and, finally, it would result in a'
two~fold complication; one in the administration of the course itself, as
in selecting those who could qualify, and a second in the University sched-
ule where congestion, already prevailing, would be considerably increased
by more onewhour courses.

For these reasons, the Committee feels that Physics 52a.b should not
be approved by the Senate.

The College of Education recommends the approval of a new course:

Education 226a~d Problems of the Secondagy School Curriculum
(3 ea.) This course mayfideal with any problem arising in any field
of the seCOndary school curriculum. It is exactly what its name in—
dicates, a problem course. Students enrolling in this course will be
required to leave On file with the College of Education a complete
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Minutes of the University Senate * March ll, 1940

lum COmmittee: "This course is being given in resnonse to a request
of the Curriculum Committee of the Southern Association of Colleges
and Secondary Schools. It is in reality a workshop ir which the stu*
dents will study many of the major nroblems of the high school curric~

"lum. The exnense of this OWurse will be borne or The Southern Asso—
ciatiOn of Colleges and Secondary Schools and the General Education
Borrd.”

This course will be restricted to teachers or princ1nals of selected
high schools, who will make critical studies of their ur cular offern

c i
ings, and to find better methods and materials for students, teacher.
and narents in solving the problems of their schools.

Your committee has received statements concerning the orocedure of the
course and how its work will be evaluated. It has also received ex"
tensive bibliogranhical lists from members of the teaching staff of

the course.

Since the course is admitiedly experimental in nature, we believe
that Senate approval should be limited to the Summer Sessions of 1940,
1941 and 19 2, and that no student should receive more than 12 hours
of credit toward a degree in this course. Therefore the Committee
recommends that Education 22636d Problems 2§_th§ Secondary School
§3§3132133‘(3 each) be aunroved for the Summer Sessions of l940r42
irclusive, only.

 

 

The College of Agriculture recommends the following new courses and
change in course:

Drop
Markets and Rural Finance 131, Advanced Agricultural Prices (2)

 

New Courses

Markets and Rural Finance 205, Ehgory g: égricultural_§rices (3)
The apnlication of economic theory to the field of agricultural prices.
Variability and flexibility in the nrice structure in terms of price

 

behavior and with resuect to some important factors influencing long
time, cyclical and seasonal changes in agricultural prices. Attention
will be given to the effects of changes in industrial production and
consumer incomes, foreign demand, mechanization of agriculture, pro—
luction cycles, middlemen's margins, etc. Theoretical implications
of nrograms of the United States and foreign countries for stabilise
ing and raising agricultural nrices and incomes through marketing
agreements, production control, export subsidies, and the like. are
discussed.

Ererequisitesz Markets and Rural Finance 111 and Commerce 115.
Note: This course is to renlace Markets and Rural Finance 131.

 

 

Markets and Rural Finance 206, Research Methods in Agricultural
gripes (3) This course is primarily a critical and-historical study
of the apnlication of variOus methods of analysis to specific types
of price problems, including assembling data, the theory and practice
of sampling,‘sunoly~orice relatiOnshins and methods of testing the

results of analysis. Research methods in the field of agricultural

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l prices are studied and the objectives of such research are scrutin~
ized through critical reading or price literature. Published reports

 

are classified according tothe methods used and the objectives pre-
sented and project outlines for prosoective research are drawn up.
Prerequisites: Markets and Rural Finance 114 and Commerce 115.

The Committee has examined these proposals and the need they are in~
tended to satisfy. We recommend that Markets and Rural Finance 205 and
206 be approved and Markets and Rural Finance 131 be dropped.

The College of Commerce recommends the following new courses and
changes in courses:

1. To drop Commerce 141 Managerial Statistics (2)

 

2. To change the title of Commerce 1?, Economic Geography of North

 

America to Economic Geography of the Western Hemisphere (3) An inten-
aha“ sive regional treatment of the agricultural, mineral and industrial
'H\w resources of the Western Hemisphere; communication and transportation;

 

 

foreign trade and its effect upon industrial progress.
3. To add the following new courses:

(a) Commerce 121, Economic Geography of the Eastern Hemisphere
(3) The agricultural, mineral, and industrial resources of the East-
ern Hemisphere treated intensively by regions; facilities of communiv
cation and transportation; the nature of foreign trade and its effect

 

 

upon industrial progress in the various regions or countries. About
four-fifths of the subject matter is devoted to European countries.
The economic resources‘of English, French, and Dutch colonies are ems
phasized, but the Old World possessions of all European nations are
considered. Of the independent noneEuropean countries, Japan and
China are considered in greatest detail.

 

 

dfll‘ (b) Commerce 152, Income and Wealth (2) The definition of

fit” these concepts, the relations between them, their relations to eco-
nomic theory, their measurement on a national, regional, local, cor~
porate, and individual basis, with particular reference to Kentucky,
and the causes of differences in income and wealth between different
localities.

The Curriculum Committee has made a careful examination of these
courses, their contents, bibliographies, procedures, etc., and believes
that they should be approved by the Senate."

All recommendations in the above report of the Curriculum Committee were
approved by the Senate. The Senate further voted that courses now pending
before the Curriculum Committee may be considered as approved by the Senate
when passed by the Curriculum Committee, provided that changes made in the
original recommendation of the colleges should have the approval of the
’Nflh Dean concerned, and provided further that action on courses not approved

[it by the Committee shall not be considered final until a decision has been
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[.mll ciation of Southern Agric“ t ral 5o“l:ers held recently in Birmingham, i
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l the South.” Professor Fergus reviewed briefly the prc:ram of the Aesonemg
Section, in which toe peculiar agric C‘Jltral nroblems of the South were
emrdesized.
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of 801001 Aeministrators, held in St. Louis the latter nary of February. l
; After telling something of the size and organization of twis Associ 2ftion, l
“V?" Dr. Ross reviewed briefly some 0; the activities of the ational Ass ci~ “
l anion of Collep ge Teacheis of Rio arion, the fiational Jocie tv for the ’lMW
Study of Education, and tn American “on catioral Research Aeso iati0n. 7
[if 1 He diccuosed briefly the generql theme of the orcgrams of the iot-onel
,lbw 7 Societv for the Stucy of Eoucation. The emnhasis in this Drogram was on 2
lQ'Hbl the r.glure of intelligence. Dr. Ross nounced that the St. Leuis meet~ I
fU 1 ing was tne largest in the history of the Association. ,
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the Board of Trustee s be asks: to annoint membe:s of the committee,
and that the n03sibili 5v of including student renresents tives be

considered.”

otsd that a committee be ennointed by Dean Boyd in accordance
recommendation. The following nerSOns were annointed:

 

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REM Dean Sarah G. Blending, Ch airman
”W" Professor Leo M. Chamoerlein

FrofesSor George Roberts

Professor D. V. Terrell

1 Professor W, L. Roberts
I Professor h. E. Ligon
; Professor J. W. Martin

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MINUTES OF THE UNIVERSITY SENATE
March 29, 1940

 

« The Univeraity Senate met in special session in Room 111, McVey Hall on
Friday,kerch 29, 1340,at 4: 30 n m. In the absence of President McVey,
Dean Boyd presided.

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The Senate voted t oend the rule reouiring that recommendations from
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the Graduate Fa orar'r degrees be held over one month.

Dean Funkhouser then read tothe Se ate the recommendation from the Grade

uate Faculty which had been oreser te d to the Senate at its reg21.ar meet~
‘ ing on March 11.

; ”The Graduate Faculty recommends that Justice tenley Formen
I Feed be extended 2 second invitation to attend the University Com~
menc cement to receive the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. The

E granting of the degree to Justice Reed vas ennroved last year, by
the Senate and the University BOard of Trustees.

The Graduate Facultv also recommends that the degree of Doctor
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