1969_01 The Daily Collegian January 1969

              Experimental College
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
A means for more relevant education
By Tun Simmers
Every day colleges and uni¬
versities throughout the nation
are finding It necessary to
respond to student calls for more
relevant education. Administra¬
tors are being made to realize
that the clamor voiced about
meaningless, Insignificant cur¬
riculum, and need for more stu¬
dent participation, Is Justifiable,
and their tacit support is
witnessed through the experi¬
mental colleges on campuses
everywhere, including Fresno
State College.
Why thedlssaUsfactionanddls-
couragement   with   education'
The reasons are many. Stu¬
dents are becoming more aware.
They see through the long lists
of general education and major
requirements passed off by pro-
meaningful. They a
to their own r
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poverty and social
Hnd their classes fa
the crucial problems at hand.
They are discovering their edu¬
cational facilities reek of the
middle class values they are
swiftly refuting. In short, stu¬
dents are finding no correlation
between their lives and what
they are being taught.
Why the Experimental College
as a vehicle for Improved educa¬
tion? Students Hnd It an ex¬
pression of tl
e responding
5, and becoming
rights,
es. They
temporary man. They realize
conventional education condlUons
them to think of topics In paro¬
chial or narrow terms. But they
way to learn and experience, and
the Experimental College gives
rise to flexibility and willing¬
ness to accept educational
change. They witness their edu¬
cational experiences being
limited by tradition, and see no
reason to squelch the potential. In
short, the Experimental College
is recognition and representation
of what they want to learn, and how
they want to learn It.
Opportunity to experiment
Established In response to con¬
tinuing demands for a curriculum
and learning climate more
attuned to contemporary society,
the Experimental College at FSC
offers both the student and faculty
an opportunity to experiment with
It strives to help break down
many of the traditional hang-ups
which plague academic communi¬
ties. It tampers with the unit
value of courses, the grading sys¬
tem, the Idea of structured edu¬
cation, stringent class hours and
the myth of student subordination
to professors. It encourages stu¬
dent Involvement ln social and
community   problems,   teaching,
about life and education. It dls-
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"We want to rid our educa¬
tional Institutions of the crap:
the systematized learning and
forgetting process of contem¬
porary education," says Richard
Toscan, director of the Experi¬
mental College Committee (made
up of five faculty members and
four students).
"We would like to stimulate the
creativity ln students," he ob¬
serves. "The Experimental Col¬
lege attempts to make students
aware of what's going on around
Toscan laments that by the time
stantlal amount of the creativity
potential within them has been
drummed out. As a result, stu¬
dents have Intrinsic dislikes of
poetry, art and most abstract sub¬
ject matter.
The Experimental College en¬
deavors to restore the natural
curiosity for these subjects, and
deemphaslzes educaUon based on
fitting people Into the economy.
"There Isn't really much point
ln using college for training, as
most corporations retrain their
employees anyway," Toscan
offers, "We can always pick up
the facts. The Experimental Col¬
lege hopes to be an aid ln helping
people understand what's around
them, so they can make decisions
In many :
Life values
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grade point average or unit value,
but  only   in   the value It has to
to be what students are clamoring
about. They feel their courses
don't   have   any  value  to  their
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and how to enjoy it.
The Experimental College is
a creation of student desires to
avoid the "educational process"
of regurgitating Information
passed on as meaningful by ran¬
dom professors. Students want
to decide for themselves what
is meaningful to their lives.
This is the future direction
education will have to follow,
according to committee faculty
member Dr. Gene Bluesteln. He
calls the Experimental College
an essential safety valve for ex-
perlmentaUon. The English pro¬
fessor thinks the academic com¬
munity should make decisions as
to whether the Institution ts
functioning and, if It is not,
lhat through the Experimental
College new and different tech¬
niques can be applied.
This Idea of the Experimental
College providing students with
the opportunity to study under
their own expressions is a key to
the program.
"There Is obviously no single
manner of teaching," Bluesteln
says. "And lecturing is probably
one of the most limited means of
learning and educating. Students
are beginning to realize this,
and are expressing their dis¬
content that faculty members
don't." Through the Experi¬
mental College students can
get about as much diversifica¬
tion of educational experience
as they want."
Do your thing
Toscan and Bluesteln are not
repudiating the idea of man having
a chosen field. On the contrary,
they, through the Experimental
College, support each person
"doing his thing", but want to
see him Involved in other things
too.
They see no reason why a man
can't be an economist, but hope
he can also enjoy something like
studying biology and living things
or nature ln his spare time. They
encourage involvement In every¬
thing.
"Education   should  be  aimed
f life,"
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standing of beaches, rivers, art
and life ln general. Instead, we
are training people to work
rather than giving them a chance
to enjoy."
The experimental situation
seeks to help.man fully under¬
stand and comprehend his subject
matter, the field and people lnlt.
It deemphaslzes the detailed facts
and encourages free thought and
speculation about why a certain
scientist ln a given field dis¬
covered something, and how It
affects life and the field.   ■
"The Experimental College
learning climate would encourage
climbing mountains to study rocks
than reading
books and listening to lectures In
a survey geology course," Tos¬
can explained.
Grades, units meaningless
Many students are realizing
that grades and unit credit and
certain lectures don't always
mean much ln actually educating
them. This is another key the¬
sis ln the experimental atmos¬
phere. The student must take a
more responsible outlook toward
educating himself, rather than re¬
lying on a given professor to
program him. The Experimental
College situation offers a stu¬
dent the chance to follow up his
special Interests and to explore
the areas he desires. It gives
him an opportunity to bring out
many of the Interests within him
that have been oppressed by
traditional education.
Toscan would like to create
the state of mind In people simi¬
lar to thai of the three or four-
year-old, when there Is an In¬
terest ln everything. He claims
that conventional mores ln edu¬
cation and society knock out these
Experimental College as an ave¬
nue for students to restore old
and natural Interests.
Fresh, progressive
Student committee member Jay
Goodwin is Impressed with the
fresh and progressive educational
ideas of Toscan, Bluesteln and •
the rest of the Experimental Col¬
lege Committee. He says the
experimental program at FSC
has the potential to be just about
whatever the students want to
make It, and calls it the type of
educational experience now
realized by many students to be
the most beneficial.
It Is the type of experience
which gives the students par¬
ticipation ln their education ln the
crucial areas affecting Its quali¬
ty and relevance.
It appears education will con¬
tinue to move ln this direction,
as more and more students are
becoming dissatisfied with the
conventional teaching. methods
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Student Senate opposes code change
The Student Senate yesterday
passed a resolution strongly op¬
posed to proposed revisions ln
Title V of the EducaUon Code.
Title V Involves the adminis¬
tration and strucrure of state
college auxiliary organizations.
The revisions as recommended
by the Board of Trustees of the
state college system would limit
local control of organizations
such as the Fresno State College
Association.
The senate passed yesterday's
opposition resolution on the rec¬
ommendation ofa six member re¬
view committee. The action was
passed unanimously, except for
one abstention.
The resolution states:
•The Senate Title V Review
Committee Is unanimous ln stat¬
ing opposition to I
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women, will maintain the booth,
located ln the foyer of the Edu¬
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Listings should Include the
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Education
(Continued from Page 6)
and curriculum offered In to¬
day's colleges and universities.
t Trustees, regents, professors,
administrators, and the lot must
continue to reappraise objectives
of their Institutions, with stu¬
dent suggestions and demands ln
mind. For if Fresno State and
other Institutions ars not will¬
ing to adjust to new circum¬
stances or cries for curriculum
revision   and  changes in  other
Title V. We feel the revisions are
a documented effort to erode stu¬
dent initiative and responsibility.
It Is an effort contrary to the
philosophy of self control by
qualified college studenU and
personnel. We call upon the Chan¬
cellor and the Trustees of the
State College system to make an
effort to rectify Individual SUte
College Auxiliary Organization
problems as they arise and not
Impose blanket measures on all
Auxiliary Organizations. Just be¬
cause of the seemingly Irrespon¬
sible actions of a few. It Is not
necessary to malign the entire
network.*
(Signed) Doug Broten, Fred
Sheriff, Greg Harding,Gil Acuna,
Gary Daloyan, Kevin Gupton.
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