Babson College - Babsonian Yearbook (Wellesley, MA)

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EVENING PROGRAM DIRECTOR Dr. Frank C. Genovese President Iohnson in his message to Congress of January 12th, 1965 said, . . The role of the university must extend far beyond the ordinary extension-type operation. Its research findings and talents must be made available to the community. Faculty must be called upon for consulting activities. Pilot projects, seminars, conferences, TV pro- grams and task forces drawing on many departments of the university -all should be brought into play. This is a demanding assignment for the universities and many are not now ready for it .... Thus the outside pressures are acting to urge expansion of the func- tions and services of institutions of higher education. Those institutions which heed these calls may reap great rewards. Babson started in this direction with its Evening Program. It is now looking into further expansion via Title I of the Higher Education Act of 1965. May this effort, too, be crowned with success! In better servicing its community, the school better serves its stu- dents, its faculty and its administration. 42 l

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DEAN OF GRADUATE SCHOOL Dr. Wilson F. Payne The Graduate School requires appli- cants to take the Admission Test for Graduate Study in Business. Multiple applications prevail at the graduate level as they do at the college level. A report by the Educational Testing Service for the year 1964-65 shows that 210 candi- dates requested that their scores be sent to Babson and to other graduate schools also. The list of over sixty graduate schools throughout the United States which were paired with Babson in the candidates, choices reveals an interesting pattern. The five schools most frequently paired with Babson were fin orderj Bos- ton University, Northeastern University, Harvard Graduate School of Business, Boston College, and University of Mas- sachusetts, all local Banking sixth through ninth were Wharton, Columbia, Dartmouth fTuckj and New York Uni- versity. The local pairings accounted for 51176 of the choices, the next four only 17920. Several colleges, including M.I.T. and North Carolina, were tied for tenth place. The significance of this list, aside from the good company it reveals, is two- fold. The first observation, and one which is reinforced by our own studies, is that the majority of students prefer to take their graduate work near home. The second and perhaps more engaging observation arises from a study of the other fifty colleges listed. Although they comprised only a third of the paired choices, a reader is impressed by their nationwide distribution. They range from Stanford, U.C.L.A., U.S.C., North- western, Chicago, Michigan, Michigan State to Cornell, Syracuse, Rutgers and others in the east.

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To be DIRECTOR OF ADMISSION as Mr. Frank VVinch II is you must realize that your work entails two main areas. The first is to attract high quality applicants, interview and process them and hopefully enroll them in our freshmen class. The second and equally important task is to educate our public about collegiate education for business. There are many young men today who because of improper counseling, parental pressure, or purely for the sake of status, iind themselves in the wrong college and with the wrong curriculum. We want to make sure that secondary school seniors know what business administration is today and how it can prepare them for their life ahead. The primary function of the ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF ADMISSION, Mr. Robert Ienks is to assist Mr. VVinch in any and all matters. This involves the interviewing of students both on campus and in their schools. It also means educating guidance counselors and headmasters as to what Babson has to offer and the type of student which we are looking for. These efforts culminate in the review of applications and selec- tion of a new class during the spring of each year. Among the other activities is the planning and coordination of the Admission's Oilice travel schedule. This year the following areas were covered: New York, New Jersey, Pittsburgh, Ak- ron, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, Milwaukee, Denver, Los Angelos, San Diego, and most of New England. The Assistant Director of Admis- sion also works with the Orientation Committee arranging for the orientation dance, the parents reception, and the freshman sign-in and registra- tion.