3-2 BS and AB programs for Lafayette students

Title: 3-2 BS and AB programs for Lafayette students
Description: 'In the spring of 1953 the faculty decided that the 3-2 plan should be offered to Lafayette students, rather than only to students who transferred from other Presbyterian colleges at the end of their junior year.' However, action on the idea was deferred. They moved instead 'the adoption of an early admission plan for engineering freshmen only, whereby they shall enter the 3-2 Engineering-Arts program leading to one degree: The B.S. in the engineering course they pursue.... The upshot was a study by professors Childs and Watt. They reported that to meet the requirements for both the A.B. and the B.S. in engineering in five years, the only possible majors for the A.B. would be mathematics or physics. A program combining an A.B. degree in mathematics with an engineering degree was established and subsequently two more 3-2 combinations were added: a B.S. in industrial engineering along with a B.S. in business administration, and a program offering B.S. degrees in physics and electrical engineering.' (Gendebien, p. 290)
Identifier: MR62
Date: 1953-01-01
Subject: Engineering
Bibliographic Citation: Gendebien, 1986