Southern Illinois University - Obelisk Yearbook (Carbondale, IL)

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President Henry W. Shryock

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Southern Illinois State Normal University Obtains lull Recognition as a College by North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. (George D. Wham, Dean of Faculty) 0 n Friday morning of last week President Shryock who had just returned from the 1931 meeting of the North Central Association filled the cup of our satisfaction to overflowing with the announcement that the North Central Association had accorded to our school full recognition as a College. We can now rejoice in the possession of a college distinguished by the highest obtainable rating at the hands of each of the three great standardizing agencies: The American Association of Teachers’ Col- leges; the University of Illinois; and the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools—a recognition in very case without deficiencies or conditions, thus placing us beyond the necessity of further inspection. It is especially gratifying to observe that our college is now not only a teachers’ college of first rank as judged by the high standards of the American Association of Teachers’ Colleges, but also a college as judged by the University of Illinois and by the North Central Association. This unique two-fold distinction is due to the fact that we meet not only every requirement of a standardized teachers’ college with respect to professional training, but also every requirement of the liberal arts and sciences college both as to kind and amount of training in prescribed subjects, and the selection and composition of majors and minors. Discerning persons in school and out of school will not be slow to sec the significance of all this. It means that we have a bona fide college of first rank, in consequence of which graduates from our four-year course may know themselves to be as genuinely college graduates as they would be from the course of any other college of whatsoever name or location. It means that graduates of our four-year course arc eligible without question to teach in any North Central High School. It means T wmly-itvcM