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Five four‐year colleges: Villa Madonna College

MAR 01, 1968

Feedback from alumni has been important in illuminating faults in the physics program of the past and lighting the way to improvements now and in the future.

DOI: 10.1063/1.3034821

George K. Miner

WE MUST CONTEND with a variety of problems that are common to many small colleges. For example, in past years there has been a steady flow of comments about the inadequate laboratory equipment and the weak format of laboratory training. Furthermore there had been noticeable shortcomings in mathematics instruction in addition to difficulties with the physics curriculum. A final example is that the faculty must labor under severe handicaps such as heavy teaching loads, small financial resources and a lack of technical and secretarial assistance. On the other hand, of course, there are a number of advantages to a small college such as Villa Madonna. However, before I discuss more extensively the strengths and weaknesses of our college, including methods for evaluation, I will deal with the curriculum itself.

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© 1968 American Institute of Physics

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