Yeshiva University announced plans yesterday for the establishment of a new type of graduate school which will bring together, under one roof, scholars and students from a wide variety of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Details of the plan were made known by Dr. Samuel Belkin, president of the University, at an all-day symposium. The school, he said, will be known as the Ferkauf Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences.
Concentrating its programs for doctoral level students, the new Ferkauf Graduate School will be structured so that students and scholars may simultaneously pursue their own specializations and priorities, and gain greater familiarity and respect for different but often complementary disciplines, Dr. Belkin said. He noted that “a single graduate school including sociology and psychology, special education and guidance, literature and art under one roof is a new departure in American graduate education.”
At the convocation, Dr. Belkin conferred honorary degrees on Dr. Lee J. Cronbach, professor of education and psychology at Stanford University; Dr. Paul F. Lazar-feld, professor of social science and associate director of the Bureau of Applied Social Research, at Columbia University; Dr. Ralph W. Tyler, director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, Cal.; and Rabbi Israel Mowshowitz, spiritual leader of the Hillcrest Jewish Center, Flushing, N.Y.
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