Cleveland State University - Scene Yearbook (Cleveland, OH)

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When Dean Barden was appointed to the staff of Cleveland College in 1947, he indicated that he would do something about the adult educa- tion situation. In speaking of his work he said: attribute a lifelong interest in education to the fact that all the education to which I was exposed was either so bad that 1 saw at once that anyone could do better, or so experimental that it was exciting. Of all education activity, adult education, I believe, is the most important because it is addressed to adults and adults run the country. Better education might induce them to do it better. This is just a hope. But it is the only one. The School of General Studies is a perfect example of this better education.

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Finally there is the Basic Arts Program, and though in terms of attendance the special and short courses are far more popular, the Basic Arts, Dean Borden ' s brainchild, is the prize pack- age of the School of General Studies. When the program was first announced in the summer of 1948, some 167 Clevelanders from college grad- uates to adults who had never finished high school, said that they wanted to sign up. During the spring semester almost 100 persons were enrolled in the Basic Arts, even though Dean Barden points out that the program is still in the experimental stages. ■ smsBEs MAN A ' ?- HIMSELF ORETATION 9«f Z