Cleveland State University - Scene Yearbook (Cleveland, OH)

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Dean John P. Barden, Dean of the School of General Studies, Professor of Political Science Education is here to stay and the School of General Studies is here to stay with it. A little education is dangerous, but is better than none at all. The School of General Studies on this point takes calculated risks. The educated are those who keep on learning. They work better, live better, make more money, and learn more than the uneducated. This is quite a trick, and the School of General Studies is here to see that nobody in the University interferes with people trying to do it. Anybody who has no time for eating dies of starvation. Those with no time for learning also die. They still walk around but they aren ' t going arvywhere. When they wander into the school of General Studies we wrap them up in a short course and throw books at them.

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The School of Business Administration is primarily a professional school directed towards preparing students for positions in the business of the country and particularly the City of Cleve- la nd. To be sure we are accomplishing just this we have gone out to the business world of Cleveland to find what business is looking for in the way of desirable qualities. The school is trying realistically to develop these qualities. Despite the fact that the school is regarded as a professional school, we insist that all persons graduating have one half of their credit hours in the mental arts. We are seeking a sane balance between the technical and practical on one hand and the liberal and general on the other hand. Through balanced education, we are turning out educated citizens rather than technical specialists. There has been a strong endeavor in selecting faculty with both a strong educational and busi- ness background. Students acquire first-hand knowledge of techniques of success as told by successful business, thus crapping the ivory tower approach to education. Dean Wilson C. Randle, Dean of the School of Business, Professor of Economics Educators have long felt that the whole pur- pose of a college is defeated unless in some way the influence of education makes itself felt upoti society. College graduates should somehow apply their knowledge to the solution of their own prob- lems and the betterment of society. It was from a desire to give ideas and knowledge some real force that the founders of Cleveland College con- cerned themselves with what they called adult education. They were interested in helping mature men and women, active in the business and civic life of the community, to keep abreast of current thought, to acquire new knowledge, new skills, new interests . . . Here on the Public Square we have no illusions of being sheltered from life. Every day we see conflict between the ideal and the reality ... In so far as the students adopt the philosophy of a continuing edu cation, they will continue to return to college year after year, con- tinuing to bring their practical experience back to the classroom, and continuing to see knowledge and to make it bear upon their lives. Dean Harlan W. Hamilton, Dean of the School of Arts and Science, Professor of English

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