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

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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

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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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CATHRYN STROHBEHN RALPH KLINE Financial need is not, at present, a requisite for a. job on Work-Study. Any sophomore, junior, or senior who shows willingness, has a good scholastic record, and has general qualilications for the position, as shown by aptitude tests, will be recom- mended by the University of Omaha. The final selection is made by the employer. The student on the job is paid a. regular salary by his employer. Each Work- Study student is required to deposit a specified portion of his earnings with the Uni- versity bursar. Upon his return to school, after a six-month period at Work, the student may draw out the money and use it as needed for his tuition, books, and mis- cellaneous expenses. The Work-Study plan enables the university to broaden the scope of its service, to make a university education possible for many more, to help them rind their niche in the world ofhbusiness and industry, and to help employers bridge the difiicult period of practical training and find employees suited to the positions to be filled. During the worst period of the depression, about eighty-tive per cent of graduates from schools using the W ork-Study plan found jobs immediately, compared to about twenty per cent who found jobs after graduating from the usual four-year college COIIYSC. In addition to the Work-Study plan, the university maintains a student employ- ment service for those students who wish part-time jobs to help- pay their college ex- penses. Many employers offer permanent positions to the students and ask that the same student return to their firms during his next work period. TOMAHAWK 4 38