[1] Suggested curricular innovations included the freshman seminar, a midwinter (January) term, academic departments replaced by broad groupings of faculty (Social Sciences, Humanities, Sciences), cooperation with the sponsoring institutions, and individualized programs of concentration replacing defined majors.
Making this all possible was the idea of providing a liberal arts college education at the minimum cost per student, allowing the school to survive on tuition alone.
The Committee for New College issued two further reports, Student Reactions to Study Facilities (1960) and More Power to Them (1962).
One important finding was that more of the instructor's time was needed for supervising such independent work (in comparison to standard lecture courses), rather than less.
[6] The original 1958 New College Plan offered to: "...dethrone the course as the unit of knowledge...[and] dethrones the idea that a college must be an intellectual autarchy: the course offering is to be developed so as to take advantage for collateral purposes of resources available at neighboring institutions.[...