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Show As the largest and by far most complex of the University's colleges, Letters and Science, headed by Dean Milton Voigt, plays an important role in the continuous change and development of the University. The college itself has undergone several significant changes; among these an increase in the number of courses available on the graduate level in the various departments; and a startling breakthrough in the Physics Department-it was one out of three in the nation to receive the "Center of Excellence Award," providing enough funds to greatly aid the department in research and development for a period of three years. The College also felt the effect of physical change as the newly-constructed thirteen-story Social and Behavioral Science Building loomed up on the U skyline; while (on the first day of winter quarter) students in geography searched anxiously through Orson Spencer Hall for their classrooms in the building's new-and-not-quite-ready Geography wing. The immensely varied and widespread concerns of the College of Letters and Science cause it to include among its faculty some of the best specialists in the country in their respective fields, along with some of the worst, as is true in every developing institution. The College encourages freeing of faculty members with greatest potential from their schedules to permit them continuation of scholarship and research, thereby drawing attention to the quality of our faculty and improving our national image. College was shadowed somewhat by conflict over the impending controversial split of the College into separate divisions of Science, Social Science, Humanities, and the ROTC program. This issue was at the forefront of most thought and discussion among department heads, and at times displaced other important issues. "The University's basic concern is with knowledge," said Dean Voigt- "increasing it through research and LETTERS AND SCIENCE Approaching the final schism Milton Voight-Dean 347 |
