Goodwin Plan Is Enacted By The Regents, Turning The State Normal College A Four Year Liberal Arts College For Teacher Training.
Andrew S. Draper/Edward J. Goodwin Plan is enacted by the Regents, turning the State Normal College a four-year liberal arts college for teacher training. The Draper/Goodwin Plan directed that the College discontinue all training for the elementary schools, institute admissions requirements “substantially the same as those laid down by other eastern colleges of good standing,” establish a “four year course in the liberal arts and pedagogics,” require students “to pursue such subjects of study as are deemed essential to a liberal education,” require “professional courses...fundamental to the training of teachers ... of every student,” institute elective courses, mandated that the school’s mission was to train teachers for “secondary schools, training schools and normal schools” and train instructors in “art, manual training, domestic economy, commercial branches and other special subjects.” The Draper/Goodwin Plan granted the school the right to offer B.A., B.S., and Pd.B, “the first two to be given on the satisfactory completion of a four-year course, the third conferred only upon college graduates after a year of post graduate study.” The plan was formally instituted with the class entering in September 1906.
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“Plan of Reorganization,” New York State Normal College, Albany, Circular and Announcement of the Courses of Instruction 1906-1907, p. 6-7. The State Normal College was the only institution in the state to provide free liberal arts degree. It was reputedly the first former Normal School in the country to offer liberal arts degree for teachers. Need to check the last claim!!