Ford Praises Doty Report; CEP Pleased

The Committee on Educational Policy has favorably received a draft on the Doty Committee's report on General Education, according to Dean Ford.

Ford, who is chairman of the CEP, said that the group's initial response was "generally friendly and amicable to the report's conclusions."

Despite the study's "relatively modest format," Ford predicted that "it will be hugely important." He believed that the Faculty Committee to Review General Education had prepared "an extremely good report," he added.

The CEP held its first meeting on the report before the Easter recess and met again this week for further discussion. Ford said the Committee would continue to meet weekly to consider possible changes and revisions.

When the CEP is satisfied with the draft report, it will ask the Doty Committee--named for its chairman, Paul M. Doty, professor of Chemistry--to submit a final report, which will be distributed to the Faculty.

"Unless I have seriously misgauged the CEP's feeling," Ford said, Faculty members will receive the report sometime next month. He repeated, however, that no action would be taken before next fall on the Doty Committee's recommendations.

Ford's statement hinted at a speed-up in the CEP's timetable, since the committee had previously thought it unlikely that the Faculty could receive the Doty report this semester.

The history of the report until now has largely been a series of unexpected delays. The largest one came last semester, when the Doty Committee found that a consensus put together last spring had evaporated over the summer.