Concentration Quotas to Be Initiated in All Departments for Next Three Years

Establishment of quotas for the number of concentrators in each department and a plan of restriction whereby some applicants for concentration will not be admitted to their chosen field was announced yesterday by University officials. The plan was voted at the last meeting of the Faculty Council and will go into effect immediately.

Under the new plan students who are not admitted to the department they designate as first choice will be placed under the tutelage of a new Committee of Advisors who will select a field for them based on their own records.

The quotas which are to be established within the next few weeks will continue in force for the next three years and will be subject to only minor variations by the departments. New quotas will be established at the end of each three year period based on the number of applications for the previous period.

James B. Munn, professor of English, will be chairman of the committee and will be assisted by Dean Hanford, Dean Leighton, Leigh Hoadley, professor of Zoology, Alfred M. Tozzer '00, professor of Anthropology, and C. Crane Brinton '19, assistant professor of History.

If a student finds that the field which he has chosen does not fit him because of a change in his plans or is not as interesting as he expected, he may apply to the committee for a change of field or for a new plan of study which will combine the elements of two departments such as History and Literature now does. Under such a plan the work would not be reduced but it is possible that it would be changed so as to avoid the general examination. The committee, if it considered the application favorably, would recommend the special plan to the faculty, but it is expected that lack of data will prevent any such recommendation for a year or two.