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  3. Message-ID: <ID8519.D921111.T090325.HUNT@UNB.CA>
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  5. Date:         Wed, 11 Nov 1992 09:03:25 AST
  6. Sender:       "Megabyte University (Computers & Writing)" <MBU-L@TTUVM1.BITNET>
  7. Comments:     <11NOV92.09800198.0046.MUSIC@UNB.CA>
  8. From:         Russ Hunt <HUNT@UNB.CA>
  9. Subject:      at risk students
  10. In-Reply-To:  In reply to your message of WED 11 NOV 1992 07:34:43 EST
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  13. > From: David E. Schwalm
  14. > Universities should not think in terms of "adding remedial courses." They need
  15. > to rethink curriculum altogether--with the student in mind.
  16.      A tall order, given who we're talking about when we talk
  17. about "universities."  We're beginning such a rethinking here,
  18. at a small place supposedly dedicated to undergraduate teaching,
  19. and I'm continually astonished at the proportion of the faculty
  20. who don't believe there IS such a thing as curriculum.  There's
  21. content, and you open their heads and dump it in.
  22.      We're lucky to have some administrators that sound like
  23. David Schwalm, and some faculty members who believe student
  24. matter . . . but it's hard slogging.
  25.                                     -- Russ
  26.                                 _~|__
  27. Russell A. Hunt            _~|__)_ __)~|__   Learning and Teaching
  28. Department of English      )_ __)_|_)__ __)     Development Office
  29. St. Thomas University        |  )____) |        EMAIL: hunt@unb.ca
  30. Fredericton, New Brunswick___|____|____|____/  FAX: (506) 450-9615
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