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Dr. Pat Cross and Ken Hansen [ ] 1 7" r-r audiotape. 36 minutes
Side A
Original label: "Dr. Pat Cross"
Description: Lecture by Dr K. Patricia Cross on institutions of higher learning needing to be concerned with cognitive and non-cognitive improvements in the college system.
Cross says college academic standards need to be changed for today's students, as more high school graduates are entering college today.
Says we will need to find better ways of developing the talents of the new diverse student body to meet their diverse needs.
Author of book "Beyond the Open Door: New Students to Higher Education" (published in 1971)
Proposes abolition of letter grades to avoid the stigma of failure.
Proposes a model on educational diversity, focusing on strengths, not weaknesses.
Proposes now is the time to find new models for education. Tape contains more information.
Side B
Original label: "Ken Hansen"
Description: Lecture by Ken Hansen on "personal management in higher education". Tape contains more information.
Side A:
Original label: "KEEN"
Description: Lecture, discussing education for "cosmonauts", or education for the "Fourth World".
Discusses two kinds of new therapies in the "therapeutic movement" - one for bodies, one for transpersonal therapies. Traditionally, psychotherapy dealt with mental therapy, and emotions second, sometimes involving the body - now it's become opposite. Tape contains more information.
Side B:
Original label: "ELLISON"
Description: Sounds like a faculty from Seattle Central Community College, lecturing on the issues surrounding SCCC and other institutions as a multi-racial environment.
Discusses a new educational facility built in SCC
Financial aid needs to respond to the needs of minority students, he says, and that the financial aid director needs to not forward a minority's financial need to Minority Affairs or another resource.
Says minorities have self-worth and that it must be recognised in the psychological and organizational construct of higher learning institutions. Tape contains more information.
1972
2002
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