Colorado College - Nugget Yearbook (Colorado Springs, CO)

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OSfe PIKES PEAK NUGGET THE NEW COLORADO COLLEGE PLAN The New Colorado College Plan put into effect for the first time in September, 1931, is primarily an attempt to re-evaluate the aims and the ideals of the small, privately endowed liberal arts college; to re- store to its rightful place the traditional training in the arts and sciences; to improve the quality of instruction and educational service through the adoption of new and modern methods. In its application to the individual, its effect may best be summed up in the phrase: Every Student a Special Student. But to this perhaps Dean Lovitt there should be added a corollary: Every Member of the Faculty the Guide, Counsellor and Friend of Each Individual Student. From the time that the entering student sets foot upon our campus, an attempt is made by members of the Faculty to ascertain his chief aptitudes and interests and to direct and assist him in the development of his own latent powers. The first two years of the college course have been reorganized as a single unit — the School of Arts and Sciences — and a new degree, Associate in Arts, is awarded at the conclusion of this period to all who have satisfactorily com- pleted their work up to that point. At the opening of the Junior Year, students who satisfactorily meet the entrance requirements are admitted to one of three advanced schools: the School of Natural Sciences, the School of Social Sciences, the School of Letters and Fine Arts. The Bachelor ' s degree is awarded upon the completion of two years of work in the field of the student ' s choice, culminating in a compre- hensive examination in the field of chief interest; the Master ' s degree upon the completion of an additional year devoted to post-graduate study. 0H3O

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rr ie PIKES PEAK NUGGET W. D. COPELAND J. R. Morrow W. W. POSTLETHWAITE OFFICERS OF THE ADMINISTRATION President Emeritus William Frederick Slocum Charles C. Mierow.. President of the College William W. PosteETHwaite Treasurer Charlie B. Hershey Dean William V. LoviTT.... Dean of Men Mrs. Louise W. Fauteaux .....Dean of Women Mrs. Josephine Rambo Morrow .Registrar William D. Copeland Secretary Henry E. Mathias. High School Visitor Lorena Alice Berger Assistant Secretary Guy Harry Albright.... Secretary of the Faculty Leo W. Bortree Medical Advisor William S. Jackson Attorney for the College Helen Baxter Owen.... Secretary to the President Jack F. Lawson Director of Public Relations C. E. Hathaway Cashier Hazel Earl Director of Dining Rooms Arthur Baylis Superintendent and Chief Engineer Mrs. Allie E. Brown ....Assistant Registrar Elizabeth J. Starrett... Assistant to the Secretary Grace Berger. Assistant to the Secretary Flossie Day Secretary to the Treasurer Maud A. Kinniburgh Di rector of Dormitories Mrs. Ruth T. Montgomery Nurse

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Otf PIKES PEAK NUGGET THE NEW COLORADO COLLEGE PLAN Under this arrangement, the first two years at Colorado College under the New Plan provide the broad basic foundation in the Liberal Arts and Sciences; the next two years are devoted to con- centration within a single field; a fifth year may be profitably employed in specialization in a single subject. Under the New Plan, the normal academic work being carried by a student is four courses per year for the four undergraduate years, each of which is designed to occupy approximately one-fourth of the student ' s interest and effort. It is anticipated Dean Fauteaux that each entering student will endeavor to determine at the outset of his college career which of the three advanced schools he plans to enter. He will then be asked to pursue one subject from the general field represented by the work of this school through each of his first two years in college and to elect during the same period one course for a single year in the work of each of the other two schools. The remaining four courses may be selected on the basis of his interests and needs from anything offered by the School of Arts and Sciences, with due regard for the specific entrance requirements which may be set for admission to the advanced school which he plans to enter. During his Junior and Senior year, a student at Colorado College will hereafter be expected to elect about one-half of his work, ordinarily four of the eight courses, from the subjects taught in the School of his choice. The New Colorado College Plan is an attempt to bring together into a new experimental whole the various successful experiments in detail, applicable and suitable to a college of our tvpe. It is the first plan of its kind in a purelv liberal arts college. Charles C. Mierow, President. 1331