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

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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.

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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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Jias been appointed head of the department of chemistry to succeed Professor Cobleigh. J. A. Nelson, associate professor of animal husbandry has been advanced to professor of dairy husbandry and heads the newly created department of dairying . Dairy work formerly was carried on under the department of animal husbandry. Schubert Dyche has completed his first year as head coach and professor of physical education. He was formerly assistant coach in the department under (I. O. Romney, who resigned last spring to become director of physical education at Brigham Young I'niversity. Provo, I'tali. R. A. Cooley, professor of entomology, returned late in March from a year's leave spent in Africa in search of parasites of the Rocky Mountain spotted fever tick. V. I). Gilman has returned as extension farm management specialist after a year of study at the I’niversity of Minnesota. E. J. Bell of the department of agricultural economics is on a year's leave of absence taking graduate work at the I'niversity of Wisconsin. M. L. Wilson, head of the department of agricultural economics, is on a four months' leave of absence to study crop production trends in European countries. M. F. Saundersoil has resigned as head of the department of secretarial science and will go into research work. His place will be filled next fall by Miss Jessie F. Connell of Marshall College. W. Ya. F. L. (Irani of the department of civil engineering returned last fall after a year of study at Columbia I’niversity. He is teaching at Stanford I'niversity during the spring quarter. Miss Gladys Branegan returned at the beginning of the school year after a year's study for her doctor’s degree at Columbia I'niversity. She will direct a tour of women students and alumni of Montana State College to Europe this summer. R. I . Bowden, director of the department of publications, is on a year’s leave of absence, taking special work at Montana State I'niversity. J. Wheeler Barger of the department of economics resigned in August. He is now taking special work and doing part-time teaching at Stanford I'niversity. R. C. McChord of the animal husbandry department, resigned the first of the year to take up practical livestock work. Miss Mary E. Stewart has had charge of physical education for women during the year, succeeding Miss Eva Pack, who died last spring. R. T. Challender, associate professor of mechanical engineering, is absent on Sabbatical leave. He is doing some special work in machine design with his headquarters at Toledo. Ohio. Professor Challender is getting in touch with the leading institutions and manufacturing plants in the central I'nited States. F. B. Cottier, associate professor of botany and bacteriology, is absent on Sabbatical leave, completing his work for doctor of philosophy degree at the I'niversity of Michigan. 0. E. Sheppard, assistant professor of chemistry, is absent on Sabbatical leave, spending the year in Rochester carrying on some special chemical studies. Professor Sheppard has completed his work for doctor of philosophy degree in the I'niversity of Chicago during the year. F. XV. Ham, professor of physics, is on Sabbatical leave, completing his work for doctor of philosophy degree. He is spending the present year in Iowa and expects to spend the following year, without salary, continuing his studies in Europe.