University of Nebraska Omaha - Tomahawk / Gateway Yearbook (Omaha, NE)

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WILMA LINCOLN PRESIDENT OF EXTENSION COUNCIL convenient places in the city. The Downtown Art Center at 1307 Farnam street a.nd the Baird building have become important class centers this year. Several students are also enrolled in correspondence courses. Activities of students in the Division are sponsored by the University Extension Council which plans the social program each year. The officers for the current year have been Wilma Lincoln, president, Darrald Harsh, vice-president, Ellen Hartman, secretary, and Robert Converse, treasurer. Each year the program of the Division features a number of new courses for adults. Included in the schedule for the past year were courses in Radio Broadcasting, Dress Designing, Creative Writing, P.T.A. Administration and Organization, Route Salesmanship, Miniature Sculpture, Chartered Life Insurance Underwriting, Lip Read- ing, a very successful course in Art Appreciation under Dr. Berthe Koch, an intensive course in Advertising Design taught by Dale Nichols of Chicago, and Nursing Edu- cation by Phoebe Kandel of Greeley, Colorado. Among the new projects of cultural interest organized during the past year' was the Book-a-Week club, whose membership reached a total of more than sixty during the year, thus forming one of the largest active groups of its kind in the city. Other units of the Division were the classes in Law for Women, Personal Development, World Problems, Modern Poetry, and the Open Forum club. TOMAHAWKK 38

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EXTENSION DIVISION EVERETT M. HOSMAN DIRECTOR OF EXTENSION The Extension Division, the agency through which the services of the University are made available to metropolitan Omaha, has continued to grow through the year 1937-38 under the direction of E. M. Hosman. Its constant development demon- strates that its program is one of service to all interests, sections, and departments of the university. Since its student body is made up largely of more mature students, and its services are designed for adults, President Haynes has recommended that the Division be developed into an actual School of Adult Education. f In general the Division offers two types of courses-degree-credit courses offered by most departments of the University, and special non-credit courses. Some of the latter are of general cultural interest, while others lead toward greater vocational and professional proficiency. Approximately one-fourth to one-third of the graduating class each year complete their degree requirements in Extension classes. One of the purposes of the Extension Division is to make courses of university grade available to as many persons as possible. To this end classes are scheduled at TOMAHAWK K '38

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so WORK-STU DY J. E. WOODS DIRECTOR OF WORK-STUDY Based on the premise that the most useful education is a, combination of class.- room knowledge and Working experience, the Work-Study plan was put into operation at the University of Omaha by J. E. Woods in the summer of 1936. Since that time iifty-three students have taken advantage of the plan. This plan was originated about thirty years ago at the University of Cincinnati and is now being used in many universities, the most notable of which is Antioch col- lege at Yellow Springs, Ohio. Through actual experience on a job, the student is able to test his ability and his interests, and to discover the field for which he is best suited. At the same time he develops a knowledge of business and industry that is helpful to him after he grad- uates. In this manner the student gets practical training in conjunction with his more theoretical college work. g TOMAHAWK K '38