Montana State University Bozeman - Montanan Yearbook (Bozeman, MT)

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eO E DIJC3ATIO NAR Progress The progress fop women students, during two decades at Montana State College has been interesting, from a small enrollment to the present very crowded condition. Hamilton Hall, the Woman's resident hall, no ' housing seventy-six. opened in January. 1!»11, with sixteen residents and today it houses less than half the freshman women. Because of the splendid high schools in Montana the preparatory department and short courses for women are long since forgotten. Every woman graduate of Montana State College is eligible to membership in the American Association of University Women. This national organization of College and University women has its headquarters and club house in Washington, with related branches in every quarter of the world. Our departments have Honor organizations and a small number of the junior women are elected to Mortar Board each spring. The women of Montana State College have a just pride in our progress as well as the standards attained.

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Educational Piiourb in Montana Forty years is a long time in tin lift- of a person. but a brief jieriod in the lustory ol a state, in INS!) Montana had no state institutions of higher learning and less than a half dozen four-year high schools. Today this state supports a complete system of higher education organized into one great university, and two hundred and fifty fully accredited high schools. Both university and high schools are housed in commodious, modern buildings and are equipped with up to date laboratories, shops and classrooms. At the same time that they have been building and maintaining this splendid system of schools and colleges, our people have been developing the almost unlimited natural resources of our Treasure State. Millions of acres of land have been reclaimed and brought under cultivation, and millions of horse power of hydro electric power have been harnessed and made to turn the wheels of industry and carry our commerce. Thousands of homes with all the comforts and many of the luxuries of modern inventions have arisen where the Indian and the wild animals roamed a generation ago. Today educationally Montana stands among the most progressive states and the credits earned in our schools and colleges are accepted at par any place in the I nited States. r r 1

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THE eOEEEHB Facuett Iii selecting a faculty for a college accredited by the standard accrediting organizations of the country, account must be taken of the training, both as to its extent and the quality of performance exhibited by the faculty members when they were in their training days. Montana State College is a standard college, being accredited regularly by the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. In their requirements under faculty training they call for certain graduate training or attainment of such worthy nature in research or efficient instruction to be equivalent to graduate training. They consider -the ratio which the number of persons of professional rank with sound training, scholarly achievement, and successful experience as teachers, bears to the total number of the teaching staff.” At the present time there are lSt» people on the regular faculty of Montana State College, including the teaching staff, the research staff and the staff of the extension service. A number of these people serve in more than one division, but in making up this total account has been taken of this distribution of the service so that the total given indicates the number of different faculty members. There are 85 people giving their full time to college instruction : the experiment station claims the full time of .‘is persons: and the extension group has 03 members serving in their work. The college faculty includes 2b full professors. 7 associate professors. 15 assistant professors. 25 instructors and S assistants. The classification of faculty members in the experiment station and extension service is on a slightly different basis from that of the college, but the same relative relation prevails in these two other services that exists in the distribution of the ranking of the college faculty. A college faculty in a state supported institution finds itself called upon for a variety of services, and it is the general attitude of the faculty of this institution to assist individuals and organizations in every reasonable way. The three main demands on the time and effort of a college faculty member are for the regular teaching service which includes the student contact and student conference; research studies for the purpose of widening the field of knowledge in their own particular lines; and the meeting of people and answering of correspondence in reply to inquiries that come in. Resignations, new appointments. Sabbatical leaves and transfers were responsible for many changes and adjustments in the faculty of Montana State College this year. President Alfred Atkinson resumed his work as head of the institution at the beginning of the school year, after a year’s Sabbatical leave in which he carried on some special research work at Cornell University, Ithaca. New York, and made a study of agricultural and industrial conditions in European countries. Dean F. B. Linfield. acting president during President Atkinson's absence. resumed his work as director of the Montana Experiment Station. The place of dean of the College of Engineering, left vacant by the resignation of E. 1 . Norris, who now holds a similar place at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg. Ya.. was open during the year. The appointment of Y. M. Cobleigh, head of the chemistry department, as dean of engineering was announced in April, the appointment to become effective July 1. 1020. K. E. Kirk, associate professor of chemistry at the University of Minnesota.