Howard University - Bison Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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 tElje Collcgr of €bucation From its very beginning, Howard has maintained a department or school for the training of teachers. From 1870 to 1900 it was known as the Normal Department. During that period, there were graduated one hundred and eighty-nine persons. In 1900 the Teachers' College was established and continued until the year 1919 as the teacher-training division of the University. It was of collegiate grade. During this nineteen years a total of four hundred and thirty-eight students were graduated. The School of F.udcation existed from i919 to 1925. This organization was one of the “senior schools of the University, comprising the last two years of collegiate work. The reorganization in 1925 increased the extent of the teacher-training activities to cover the entire four years of college. and changed the name to the College of Education. That there has been a growing interest in the professional training of teachers, especially for work of secondary grade, during the past twentv-tive years is manifested by the changes in the requirements made by the state boards of education and the city school systems for certificates to teach in high schools. The responses that the colleges and universities have made to this change of attitude is indicated by the development of schools and colleges of education and by the rapidly increasing enrollment of the students doing professional work in education.

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I:m UKr i ,T. Sciitt S« or l»ry-Tivasnror Cljr ccfctarp rcasurer’s (Office The office of the Secretary-Treasurer—handling all the financial transactions of the University, and in many instances going afield to promote the welfare of the University in diverse lines of outside publicity and community activity—is contributing its part to the life and futherance of the University's progress. This office provides for the official press releases of the school, collects all registration fees, arranges the finances for all major athletic events, and oversees and arranges every program, of whatever nature, which is not directly planned and executed bv the particular department nearest the sphere of the activity. The completion of the new stadium, the largest and most complete in any Negro school, and the new gymnasium, complete in every detail of structure and equipment, providing an indoor track and swimming pool as special features of construction, are monuments to the work of the Secretary-Treasurer’s office.

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na Cljc SMimini Office The Alumni Office was established bv vote of the Board of Trustees in September, 1923. Its personnel consists of an Alumni and Field Secretary and a full-time clerk, together with several students who are given part-time employ ment. The purpose of the office is to collect and preserve records of graduates and former students, to act as a link between the alumni and the University, and to provide headquarters for field activities in the interest of the University and the alumni, together with the publishing of an alumni magazine and other literature of interest both to the alumni and to the University. The functions of the office, by experience, has been extended to include promotion and co-operative effort on behalf of financial campaigns. the preparation and the conduct of various forms of exhibits, cooperation with a special committee charged with securing nominations for Alumni Trustee, and the promotion of student concert tours. During the four years of its existence, the office has been a steady growth until at the present, the time and energy of the personnel are taxed to the very limit. Plans for further development include close attention to the details of alumni organization, the development of proper alumni concepts among the student body, the publication of an alumni directory, and the inauguration and development of an alumni fund, together with the raising of an appropriate student-aid fund. Our own office is a pioneer in its held among colored educational institutions. and it is the only colored member of the Association of Alumni Secretaries. Alumni Magazines Associated, and the Association of Alumni Funds, the work of the office being governed by the rules of these associations. ■tzassa