University of Colorado - Coloradan Yearbook (Boulder, CO)

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t t A O B U S N E S S Elmore Petersen I T MAY be difficult to realize that in the United States half a million business posi ' tions are filled annually by persons to whom such positions represent new engagements. In other words, vacancies caused by death, resignations, retirements, and promotions, and opportunities due to expansion, together, call for 500,000 men and women in busi ' ness each year. Thus briefly, but concretely, has been described the field that is await- ing workers trained for the task. It is in an effort to meet this demand that schools of business have developed in this country. The major problems of business today are essentially problems of management. Recognizing the significance of this fact, the School of Business at the University of Colorado is committed to a program of studies which will prepare the student for a professional career in the business world. This program involves much more than mere familiarity with the technical routine of business activities. That the worker must be equipped with tools is obvious, but the person who enters business today, if he is to be a leader, is required no less to be able to see and to understand the deeper problems of life. Business management calls for broad training and education, not narrow specialization. Elmore Petersen, Dean. [20] t

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K E N G N E E R N G D N Herbert S. Evans ■ HE College of Engineering offers four years of coordinated undergraduate study leading to the bachelor ' s degree in five branches of the engineering profession. At grad- uation the engineering student has acquired a thorough foundation in mathematics and the general sciences, and also in the basic field in which he has chosen to specialize. In addition, he has taken required courses in English language and literature, an introduc- tion to economics, and a number of other non-technical courses. Through electives he may broaden his training still further if he so desires. In many of the junior and senior courses the social aspects and implications of the subject are kept before the student. Certain other professions recognize engineering training as an excellent preparation for their own work. No matter in what field of endeavor a young man may later be engaged, his engineering training will help him find his way. Each major department offers one or more years of graduate study, and many are taking advantage of this opportunity to more fully prepare themselves for success in their chosen profession. Herbert S. Evans, Dean. [19]

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O k s c H O L F L A W D N ! IK »i W JH James Grafton Rogers T HE ambition of the School of Law is to equip its students with as rich and intensive a training in law and its methods as can he had anywhere. Year by year we gain some- thing, and the School today believes it offers a modern and sound curriculum, a good physical plant, and library equipment; and, above all, a real standard of achievement. We try — students and faculty alike — to work hard, to think precisely, and to search the machinery of law and government as deeply as we do intensively. We know that char- acter is as essential as learning. We know that industry is as valuable as talent. We require three years of college preparation before admission to the law school. Then we expect three years or more of solid work. Each year we send out twenty-five or thirty students into law, business, or public life, with the expectation that they can hold their own with credit and honor, in any state or any legal post. J.AMES Grafton Rogers, Dean. [21]