The Story of the Block Plan: 播客
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第一章:开始
今天是九月十六日, 1969—the fall after the summer of love—when Professor Glenn 布鲁克斯 steps up to the podium to give a Convocation address unveiling the “New College Plan” to the students of 科罗拉多大学 for the first time. 在过去的几个月, 布鲁克斯 has been on a special assignment given him by 卢穿, then President of the College, to find some way of not just celebrating the 100th anniversary of the college but changing it in some way. There is excitement in the air, but perhaps not all of 布鲁克斯’s faculty colleagues like the idea.
Chapter Two: The Lost Convocation Address
Hear for yourself the newly discovered tape of Professor Glenn 布鲁克斯’s lost Fall Convocation address of 1969 when he described the idea that would become the Block Plan to the students of 科罗拉多大学. What problems was the Plan meant to solve? What changes would it mean for CC? What was the “crisis of time in the life of the student” at the core of the Plan’s founding?
Chapter Three: Back to Benezet
The 搜索 for the origins of the idea of the Block Plan, and the institution that would adopt it takes us back to 1955 when then newly-named CC President Louis Benezet arrives at 科罗拉多大学 to find it at something of a standstill. 教师 salaries are abysmally low, no new buildings built for decades. The quest to improve things starts slowly, but then gets a shot in the arm when a signal from outer space gives the process a shot in the arm.
第四章: 六十年代
时间是1965年, 比伍德斯托克音乐节早了四年, but already the great interrogations of the 60s that would change the country—and higher education—are underway. On the CC campus enrollment is climbing, and students are demanding off campus housing, 啤酒, and sweeping curricular reforms. Many of the proposed changes are turned back, not because they are too radical, but because they are not radical enough. This combination of discontent and defeated reforms leads to a decision by Professor 布鲁克斯 to form a “Committee of the Whole” that would be composed, 字面上的, 校园里的每个人. “What do you need to do a better job?他问. How does this question lead to the radical idea that we now know as the Block Plan?
第五章: 墨菲家发生了什么
Having nearly finished his self-study of 科罗拉多大学, Glenn 布鲁克斯 is faced with the difficult question of what to do. There are a lot of options, many suggestions on the table, but no clear path ahead. In the midst of such uncertainty he happens to go to Murphy's Bar in Colorado Springs on a gloomy November afternoon in 1968 for a much mythologized 啤酒 with two colleagues. One of them makes a suggestion that will point the way forward. Go behind the scenes of the Block Plan Documentary as we ask, what really happened at Murphy’s? What was said that day that would make it seem like a turning point on the road to the Block Plan?
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Chapter Six: “The Planning Office”
Professor 布鲁克斯 pitches the idea of “unified learning” to the President and Dean and gets the go ahead to start to "tinker with the course calendar" and see what might be possible. With Elaine Freed as his assistant, he opens the “Planning Office” in the basement of Armstrong and gets to work. They don’t get far before they discover Hiram College in Ohio--once the "happiest college in the land"--who have just abandoned their own “one course at a time” plan.
Chapter Seven: "Drucker, Dionysius, and a Leap Forward”
Progress towards implementing the New College Plan moves slowly at first, but then is spurred by a unexpectedly controversial performance on campus that pulls the campus together. 尽管如此, 布鲁克斯 sees that students and faculty are having a hard time seeing the plan as something they might actually adopt—as opposed to something that might theoretically be possible. He takes several steps to make the Plan seem as concrete as possible, as soon as possible. 但这就足够了吗?
Chapter Eight: The Thing Passed
Having distributed three reports to the faculty outlining his New College Plan over the course of the summer, 布鲁克斯 braces for the Fall 教师 Forum when the subject to be discussed and debated for that year is the Plan itself. He expects disagreements, much debate—which is not what happens. 努力向前, he delivers the Fall Convocation Address announcing the Plan publicly to the students and staff of 科罗拉多大学 and gets blowback for his use of “strong language.几周后, just before the historic vote, a strategic error gets him further into hot water. 另一种方案出现了. Will the Block Plan survive the faculty vote?
