Dickinson State University - Prairie Smoke Yearbook (Dickinson, ND)

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PRAIRIE SMOKE: Do you feel that the students could he offered more in the line of academics? 11 so, what? DR. GILLUND: One can never be satisfied with the status jiio, therefore, I naturally feel that students could be offered more in the line of academic programs. This is our great challenge, to be flexible in our academic program and to be alert to new ideas and concepts in a time of vast explosions of knowledge. Ours is an ever-changing society and to try to prognasticate would be difficult. We must be continually searching, seeking, and reading for new developments. 23

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PRAIRIE SMOKE: IE I I It is your opinion about the attitudes of the students toward obtaining an education? How does it compare with other institutions that you have been at? DR. GILLUND: I have been pleased to observe that the ma- jority of the students at DSC are definitely “goal” oriented. They have come to this institution for an education. They want that education to be more than conditioning, more than a pilgrimage in routine or premature adjustment. I sense their realization that education at Dickinson is not meant to reform them, or to amuse them, nor to make them expert technicians. I hope that they are cognizant of the fact that without ideas, without effort, without scholarship, without philosophical continuity, there is no such thing as education. The attitude of students at DSC toward obtaining an educa- tion are unquestionably very good, as 1 compare them with institutions with which 1 am familiar. 22

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NORTH DAKOTA STATE BOARD OF HIGHER EDUCATION (1969701 Standing: Fred R. Orth, Grand Forks: Harold Refling. Bottineau: Allen H. Hausauer. Wahpeion: Rev. Peter Hinrielis, Dickinson. Se« ed: I.loyd H. Nygaard, Ass't. Commissioner ami Executive Secretary. Bismarck: George Sinner, Casselton: Mrs. Elvira Jestrab, Willision: Kenneth E. Raschkc. Commissioner. Bismarck: Albert Haas. New Rockford. 24