Pusey Plans to Revise Program of Ed School

President Pusey outlined Wednesday a new program of the Graduate School of Education to enlist the efforts of leading members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in educational research.

Pusey indicated at a press conference that the program would constitute an important shift in the orientation and emphasis of the Ed School, and would attempt to bring the School into closer contact with the rest of the University.

"I want the University [as a whole] to do something for the cause of education," Pusey explained.

He said that the number of members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences who now concern themselves with educational problems is very small, and singled out the efforts of Bernard Bailyn, professor of History, in the history of education, and of Henry M. Sheffer, professor of Philosophy, in the philosophy of education, as examples of the kind of work he would like to see encouraged.

Pusey Wants Right Man

In his search for a new dean of the Graduate School of Education, Pusey indicated, he is primarily concerned with getting the right man to direct the new program of the School.

Pusey said the new dean should be "someone who can blend all this together."

The appointment of a new dean will probably not be announced until the May meeting of the Board of Overseers, and could be delayed even later than that, Pusey said.

The post of dean has lain vacant since former dean Francis G. Keppel '33 left Harvard in December to become U.S. Commissioner of Education. Acting dean has been Judson T. Shaplin '42, who was appointed associate dean of the Ed School in 1954. Shaplin is considered the only man from within the University who is a likely candidate for dean.

Pusey has travelled around the country to visit other schools of education and to talk with other educators, however, and is known to be considering individuals from outside the University for the job of dean.

"Done the Homework"

"I've done all the homework and I'm now trying to identify the individual who can do the job," Pusey said.

In explaining his ideas for the new direction of the Ed School, Pusey said that the main efforts of the School in the past had been in the recruiting and training of "good people from liberal arts colleges" for jobs in teaching and school administration. "The question now is, what do we do next?" Pusey said.

He said he would like to get more Faculty members interested in the problems of educational curricula and the process of learning.