Faculty Committee on the Quality of Undergraduate Instruction records

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 11-4-927

Scope and content

Includes letters, May 1965, from Royce P. Murphy, Dean of the Faculty, setting up the Committee; and from Professor Raymond Bowers stating his conception of the Committee's task; other memoranda; mimeographed reports and studies concerning undergraduate education at Cornell; letters from various members of the faculty in answer to a circular from Professor Alfred E. Kahn soliciting their opinions; subcommittee and committee minutes and reports; drafts of reports; final copies of the "Kahn-Bowers" Report (1965); and newspaper and other printed articles concerning undergraduate education.

Dates

1965.

Creator

Cornell University. Faculty Committee on the Quality of Undergraduate Instruction (Organization)
Bowers, Raymond. (Person)
Murphy, Royse P. (Royse Peak), 1914- (Person)

Restrictions on Access

Access restricted to the permission of the University Archivist.

Biographical / Historical

The Faculty Committee on the Quality of Undergraduate Instruction was one of nine committees set up in 1963 to study various aspects of undergraduate education at Cornell. Committee members included Alfred E. Kahn (chairman), Raymond Bowers (executive vice-chairman), Urie Bronfenbrenner, J. Murray Elliot, Wolfgang H. J. Fuchs, Theresa R. Humphreyville, W. Keith Kennedy, Duncan M. MacIntyre, William McGuire, Dennis G. Shepherd, and Cushing Strout.