Phoenix College - Sandprints Yearbook (Phoenix, AZ)

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I ESS TODAY'S CITIZEN lives in a business-oriented society. Through the ser- vices and activities of business, our capitalistic economic system has made the United States the most prosperous nation on earth. Some evidence of student interest in and awareness of the importance of business can be seen in the fact that 20 per cent of the Phoenix College student body are business majors with many additional students taking one or more business courses. Approximately 60 per cent of the business majors hope to transfer to other colleges for their third and fourth year and plan to qualify for a Business Administration degree. The remaining 410 per cent study in the fields of Middle Management, Data Processing, Secretarial, Medical Re- ceptionist, Clerical or General Business with one or two years of training as their goal. Although crowded for space, students work with such modern equip- ment as a multi-channel electronic shorthand transcription laboratory where students with different abilities can take dictation at four different speeds at the same time and a business machines room with modern calculators. In there is an office machines room where students learn to operate key-punch, multilith, mimeograph, and spirit duplicator. Also, there is IBM Data Processing Center. In the machine transcription room, students to transcribe medical, legal and technical letters and reports previously on disks, tapes and belts. 'alt is our opinion that man contributes to the economic system as an l and takes from it as an individual. It is our aim to train our graduates to contribute their best to the business world for man in constant search for the new and betterf, - Ralph C. Asmus W, O,Malley A H Johnson B. J. Gibbs M Croh

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if R D Hungerford P. E. Marshall A. Shindler C. J. Newnam R W Christy W. F. Buxton S, P, Evans IN NEWLY-completed quarters, the MCJCD Data Processing Center houses three classrooms and faculty offices besides the equipment and staff associated with the Center. There are six machine areas, three used primarily for service, and three for educational purposes. There are three main users of the Center. The first is the service activity that supports the Admission and Records oflices of District schools in keeping student records, in grade reporting and in preparing statistics. The second is the service provided for the Oflice of the Vice President for Business Services, in producing and keeping financial records for the District. The third use is the educational environment provided for the Business, Math and Physics Depart- ments. The Business Department Data Processing curriculum is in its fifth year and has two full-time teachers, Mr. Evans and Mr. Buxton. The educational use by the Physics and Math Departments is relatively new, with each department offering one course in programming. This programming knowledge is intended as a tool for the student, to be used to support his Physics, Mathematics or Engineering endeavors. The reputation of the education provided can he judged by the current enrollment iigures which include 159 daytime Data Processing majors and a total of 298 day students enrolled in Data Processing courses offered by the three departments. We feel that through course offerings in Data Processing, we provide an opportunity for a Data Processing education that is outstanding. - C. R. Vaughan C. R. Vaughan 27