Long Beach City College - Saga Yearbook (Long Beach, CA)

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ADMIN ISTRATICN

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Entrance to the Science Building, from the North

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10 SAGA for 1928 Left to right: Mr. Lounsbury, Mis: Trauger, Miss Paine, Miss Williams, Dr. Bush. DMINISTRATION - The Long Beach junior College has surpassed in first-year enrollment all similar institutions in the United States, under the able administration of john L. Lounsbury, principal, Dr. Ralph Bush, dean, Miss Mat- tie Paine, dean of women, Miss Alta Wil- liams, counselor-registrar, and Miss Pearle Trauger, secretary to the dean. The total enrollment is at present six hundred and seventy-three students, while one hundred and seventy-five were actually turned away. High school records came to the Junior Col- lege from twenty-eight different states, two foreign countries, and the Philippine Islands. Two types of curricula are offered to the students: a certificate course for those hav- ing twelve to fifteen high school recommend- ing credits and expecting to attend some university at the end of two years, and a diploma and vocational course for students having less than twelve accepted credits and intending to enter business and professional life. ' Among the courses listed for the certifi- cate student are pre-legal, pre-medical, pre- engineering, pre-teacher training, commerce and administration, general liberal arts, for the diploma student-secretarial, general business, home economics, pre-nursing, jour- nalism, practical engineering, practical ar- chitectural, music, art, general liberal arts, and transfer. This transfer course is a vital part of the curriculum. If a student wishes to pursue a profession and has not a sufficient number of recommended grades to take the certificate course, he may, through the transfer course, fulfill college entrance requirements. When his recommended grades have reached the requisite number, he is enrolled in the regu- lar certificate course. Varied opportunities for cultivating, with adequate guidance but student responsibility, the social and recreational side of college life have been approved by the administrative staff in order to encourage leadership. The policy of thefadministration has been to encourage student government. The col- lege, unified into an Associated Student Body, chooses its officers, who, subject to the approval of a faculty member, direct the affairs of the institution. This opportunity for the development of initiative constitutes one of the most important debts of college students to the administration.