Shippensburg University - Cumberland Yearbook (Shippensburg, PA)

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xv rx il xr-X .egg li e- if X ' N 2 X--- Q 9 Article l personal Touch given, Faculty lblroozolens Vzstas It may be said that the academic foun- dation and success of a college rest largely upon the standards of conduct and per- sonal aspirations displayed by the members of the faculty. Shippensburg is indeed for- tunate to have faculty members who are truly interested in the personal welfare of students as well as their academic success. Students at this college are grateful to the entire faculty for the encouragement and individual consideration shown each class member in his four years at Shippens- burg. In many larger colleges student iden- tity is disregarded or lost in overcrowded classroom conditions and a large student population. But Shippensburg is fortunate in that it is able to maintain closely knit student-faculty relationships. Shippensburg's professors are constantly acquiring wider vistas of knowledge and understanding through travel and gradu- ate study. The universities at which these people have matriculated are Hung far and wide from the University of Hawaii and the University of Australia to the Univer- sity of London and the Sorbonne in Paris. The quality of instruction at Shippens- burg is on a par, in many instances, with instruction received at big-name institu- tions. This quality means even more in the constitution of a student's academic work when it is coupled with a personal touch, which is fortunately still the rule rather than the exception. Because he has had an education with a personal touch, the teacher who is graduated from Shippens- burg is more prone to have a greater sense of responsibility for his students' needs and experiences less trepidation when begin- ning to teach than the new teacher who was just a number to his professors for four years.

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