Ferris State University - Ferriscope Yearbook (Big Rapids, MI)

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Getting a general education Dr. Lowsma demonstrates weighing “quantitatively” g 4 Books, boys, bent backs, and battling brains.

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Dr. Turille is a graduate of the Nebraska State Teachers College where he earned the B.A. degree, the University of Minnesota where he earnedthe M.A. degree, and the Harvard Graduate School of Education where he received the Doctor of Education degree. He was head of the Department of Business Education at Kansas State Teachers College for three years and for the past thirteen years has been Head of the Department of Business Education at Madison State College in Virginia. Dr. Turille was the national editor of the publications of the National Association of Business Teachers-Training In- stitutions for several years. He has served as President of the Virginia Business Education Association and has been an ac- tive member of the American Association of University Pro- fessors and the Southern Business Education Association. The Cooperative Field Training Program, under the direction of Mr, Richard Howland, gives the trainees act- ual experience in management and is operated in Grand Rapids, Big Rapids, Muskegon, and Cadillac.

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General Education The provision of a program of general education and pre-professional training for stu- dents at Ferris began as early in the history of the Institute as 1895 when instructional offerings first began to be organized as distinct courses of study. Later this idea was given a more distinct form when, in 1933, a Junior College and Pre-Professional School was organ- ized as a part of Ferris Institute. This, however, was later incorporated into the lower- division programs of the Commercé and Pharmacy Divisions. More recently it became clear that a separate unit to provide the services or offering and’ co-ordinating general education experiences for students and providing two-year pre-profes- sional programs of study was again needed. Present day developments and accepted prac- tice in higher education gave support to the desion to organize in the spring of 1953, a General Education and Pre-Professional Division. Sam Ketchman — Athletic Director Dacho Dachoff — Director of Music