Illinois Wesleyan University - Wesleyana Yearbook (Bloomington, IL)

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EA OF THE U IVER ITY With responsibility for the coordination of the academic affairs of the university laced in the office of the Academic Dean, Everette L. Walker, as Vice President and ean of the University is the administrator most concerned with the daily operation f the academic program. As chairman of the Deanis Council, he oversees curriculum evisions and changes, as well as evaluating programs and degree requirements. On ch matters as curriculum and recruitment, Dean Walker works directly with the culty. As a major task of the University faculty recruitment involves tours to major niversities seeking prospective faculty members in addition to a constant series of terviews on the Wesleyan campus. Problems of individual faculty members of de- artments are often brought to this office. Under this division are Office of the Registrar and the libraries, with the Dean co- dinating their operations with the rest of the university. The office of the Dean is al- ays open to students who wish to discuss an academic problem and to those who desire exception to the normal academic requirements. .Terry C. Jensen, M.A., Michigan State University . . . Dean of Students.

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, W, .wir M rms. M- was mga? ia.. ,, I J' t -f xmn. Everette L Walker Ed.D., Indiana University . . . Dean of the University. DE OF STUDE T The education that goes on outside the class room is the primary concern of De Jerry C. Jensen and his staff. Extension and expansion of the Dean of Students Offi into the areas of student activities, financial aid, psychological counseling, and care planning leave hardly any parts of the student's non-academic life uninfluenced. Illinois Wesleyan's new Dean of Students approaches his job with a desire create an atmosphere of relationships, whether student-faculty, student-administrat or student-student. This atmosphere must involve confidence in each other, trust, resp as persons, and understanding. In its efforts toward establishing the personal contacts and individual attention whi IWU promises its students, the Dean's staff must be one of action, not reaction, a ticipating student's problems and questions and initiating action. The task of a p sonnel dean in a university community such as Wesleyan's combines the jobs of a ministration of such tangible things as barely adequate housing and such intangibl as development of personal and group responsibility and formation of meaningf relationships.

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5 uw H , is i f Ffh ,,,,.,--' 33 f 11? p- ' f .. l Hal R. Wassink, M.A., Bowling Green State University . . . Dean of Men. DEA OF WOME For Virginia Smith, Dean of Women, her office affords the opportunity to help I women develop the ability to successfully interact within a group environment. Sever of the new programs emerging from the Dean of Women's office are founded on th philosophy of encouraging the students to assume greater responsibility. As outline the Resident Assistant program is educational rather than supervisory in nature, creat to avert an informational gap between either students-and-students or students-an administrators. Particularly for freshmen, the presence and easy accessibility of i formal communication channels is an aid to increased awareness of and participati in campus life. If successful it is hoped that the program can be expanded to incluc all womenis residence halls. In an effort to become individually acquainted with the freshman class, Dean Smit in conjunction with Deans Jensen and Wassink, scheduled a series of informal co versations with freshmen students, discussing such topics as their first impression of t campus and their reactions to the summer orientation program. During her four years at Wesleyan, Miss Smith has witnessed an increasing assum tion of responsibility on the part of students-a most satisfying experience for the De of Women.