{"id":272,"date":"2011-04-03T02:44:05","date_gmt":"2011-04-03T02:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/researchbdev.wpengine.com\/forty-years-the-history-of-women-at-bowdoin\/?p=272"},"modified":"2011-12-09T03:52:04","modified_gmt":"2011-12-09T03:52:04","slug":"orient-greason-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/forty-years-the-history-of-women-at-bowdoin\/curriculum\/orient-greason-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Orient: Greason Attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 1969, two years prior to the admission of women to the College, Bowdoin decided to drop its distribution requirements. After that decision, and then in light of the transition to coeducation, Bowdoin\u2019s curriculum underwent significant scrutiny in the early 1970s. In this Orient<\/em> article, (Document SW, 34), the author documents Dean of the College, A. LeRoy Greason\u2019s argument that the \u201cfaculty are to blame for the [at the time] present abuses of Bowdoin\u2019s free curriculum,\u201d a curriculum he felt had no \u201ccoherent policy acceptable to both faculty and students.\u201d<\/p>\n

The author notes that Greason\u2019s argument concerning the curriculum is particularly relevant to, if not rooted in, Bowdoin\u2019s recent transition to coeducation. The author writes that \u201cGreason\u2019s strongest criticism\u201d concerned the faculty\u2019s inability to confront the \u201cimplications of the College\u2019s decisions to admit a more diversified student body and to drop distribution requirements.\u201d Greason asserts that the combination of these two decisions is responsible for the \u201cgrowing number of students who concentrate heavily in music and the arts\u201d and avoid \u201cother areas of the curriculum.\u201d Consequently, Greason contends that in failing to develop a \u201ccoherent curriculum,\u201d or a curriculum that mandates taking classes in a variety of disciplines, the faculty is essentially preventing the student body from receiving the true breadth of focus a liberal arts education should warrant.<\/p>\n

In general, Greason\u2019s argument that the faculty has failed to address the curricular effects of dropping the distribution requirements and recently admitting women demonstrates one of the ways Bowdoin\u2019s shift to coeducation complicated the College\u2019s understanding of how to best and appropriately provide a diverse liberal arts education. Although Bowdoin did not reverse its move toward coeducation, it did retract its decision to drop distribution requirements. Currently, however, male and female students at Bowdoin must take courses in five different distribution areas in order to graduate.<\/p>\n

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