Marquette University - Hilltop Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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Physical increases in the campus surroundings further contributed to on aura of ocademic vigor The completion of the Todd Wehr Chemistry, the second of three buildings to compose the Wehr Science Center, was indicative of the rapid departmental upsurge characterizing the physical sciences The scope of this scientific orientation is seen in the extensive facilities, research gronts, and faculty openings provided for in the Wehr donation. The new Legal Research Center, constructed as a bi-level addition to the Law School, houses library facilities and administrative offices. This addition to the University plant, coupled with the renovotion of the Science Building, demonstrated a surge of concentration on academic facilities. The remodeled quarters of the Science Building provided offices for four administrative departments and the University purchose of the four-story Varsity Building for office use points to an increased emphasis on administrative aspects. Through the Milwaukee Urban Renewal Project, new tracts of land have become available for future University expansion. Outdated buildings hove been razed by the city for use as parking lots or tracts of grass. Marquette has become a university within a large city, rather than a university surrounded by a large city. The number of graduate teaching assistants hos increased sharply within the last five years. The faculty to student rotio of one to 13 64, the lowest it hos been since 1962 and well within the accepted ronge of ten to twenty students per faculty member. An interaction between students, faculty members, and qualified graduate assistants allows shored insights in a lecture-response program outlined by lectures, quiz sections, ond laboratory sections Marquette's many required courses necessitates large classes, yet the effectiveness of the lecture is often determined by workshop sections of ten to twenty students. These workshops, an extra hour of class time, allow a more open dialogue among students under the direction of a graduate student. Marquette's intercourse between the city ond the University has opened up a fertile orea of activity. Continuing education courses ond programs dedicated to the study of inner city characteristics allow a constont interchange between the University ond its environment. The reorganization of the Marquette School of Medicine in late September, achieved by an amendment to the medical school's corporation charter and by-laws, severed all legal ties between Marquette University and the medical school. This oction, on both an acodemic and financial level, was intended to preserve independently sponsored medical education for the Milwaukee community and ot the same time enhance the probabilities of receiving state financial support. In a year marked by increases in the physical campus, progress in both academic excellence ond the faculty-administrotion-student relotions, the Marquette community hos brought itself closer to those goals properly defined for a University. Father Raynor, in his annual report assessing the academic accomplishments of the past year, stoted that these accomplishments . . . provide only a point of departure for the goals and achievements of the future. MU has moved into a realm of diverse graduate programs 19

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