Southern Illinois University - Obelisk Yearbook (Carbondale, IL)

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committee appointed by this Committee in turn visited us, gave us a thorough inspection, and indicated the conditions vve should have to meet. ' Most of the conditions had already been provided, among which were the following: a complete separation of the high school from the college with a separate faculty and separate classes, together with a reduction in high school enrollment to a number needed for training school purposesg the admission to the college of only the graduates of fourfyear accredited or recognized high schools, or the equivalent of suchg a stipulated proportion of senior college students to the total number en' rolledg adequate library facilitiesg and an annual income suiifif cient for the support of the school. Two other conditions .imposed by the committee were a guaranteed improvement of the faculty in number and academic prestige, and a remaking of our college curriculum in accordance with the standards of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences of the University of Illinois with such modifications as are necessary to make room for professional courses. To meet the last requirement, our curriculum was completely rebuilt by a committee of our facf ulty appointed by President Shryock, and was submitted to the subfcommittee of the University who in turn unanimously recommended that we be granted the status of a Class B Col' lege. - . 'HT

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6511113 0112155 Z8 Ollaaaiii When-a new building is secured no our sense of its importance by exercises and by public declarations of our good tirely as it should be because no college its great purposes without proper housin ment. However, our enthusiasm for build pliances should not blind us to the les ings and objective ap' s obtrusive, but more significant advances in organization, in currid ing efficiency which represent the spiritua tainment of which buildings and grounds but a means to an end. I Withoiit doubt, the greatest single adv yet made occurred last year when we gain Class B college. The story of this achieve inarized for the readers of the Ubelisk. President Kinley of the University of Illi University Committee on Admission from of Learning to make the necessary investig to determine its Iitness to receive Class B cla I lllll raiinna r dedicated, we show ofla festive character fortune. This is en' today can accomplish g and adequate equipf ulum, and in teach' l values for the at' and equipment are ance our school has Ned recognition as a rnent is briefly sum' President Shryoclc, In November, 1925, at the request of nois ,authorized the Higher Institutions iationof our school ssification. A subf

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l ' In attempting to gauge how much this new classification means to the school, we may consider the following advantages: first, the admission of our fourfyear graduates to the Graduate School of the University of Illinoisg seconb, the eligibility of our fourfyear graduates to teach in any high school of the North Central Association, third, the sthndardizing of our curriculum so that it is practically interchaiigeable year by year with that of any other standardized college or university, fourth, the greatly enhanced prestige of our school and of all those who are, or have been, connected ivvith it. In all his brilliantly conceived and executed plans for promoting the def velopment of our institution, President Sliryock has probably rendered his greatest service in lifting us to the plane of a Class B, College. -George D. Whain. w l12l?