The Commission on the Future of the College, also known as the Bressler Commission, was appointed by Princeton president Robert F. Goheen in 1970. With funding from the Carnegie Corporation, the Ford Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Commission was charged with examining the shifting line between formal and informal education, including learning experiences that had heretofore not been part of the curriculum. With recent changes to the curriculum such as independent studies in which students could combine more than one discipline, there was a growing need to re-examine the general direction of undergraduate education. In addition to it's chairman, Sociology professor Marvin Bressler, the commission was made up of nine non-administrative faculty members, six undergraduates, the provost, the dean of students, and the dean of the college. At the end of its three-year appointment the commission published a final report which stated that the normal duration of the undergraduate study would remain at four years but that the student should have the flexibility to enroll in graduate courses if qualified, or have partial advance standing through advanced placement (not to exceed the equivalent of a full year of academic work).
From the description of Commission on the Future of the College records, 1970-1973. (Peking University Library). WorldCat record id: 74214276
