University of Connecticut at Fort Trumbull - Laurel Yearbook (Fort Trumbull, CT)

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DR . C. A. WEBER, Director Fort Trumbull Branch University of Connecticut 9 'R

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I If democracy is to survive and grow, its citizens must have characters educated to promote the cooperation of men to counteract the disintegration that now drives them toward mutual destruction. To do this, we must have college and university programs that foster and discipline the characters of people for making responsible judgments of a normative nature. Such programs must be designed to socialize and integrate personal commitments and must be built to foster the merging, principle, purpose, and policy into effective programs of action. The making of this kind of a college must avoid dictatorial leadership and the pseudo-neutrality of the indicatively focused institutions that we know so well. This task will foster the same democratic characters in the faculty, administrative staff, working personnel, and student body. Furthermore, it will measure achievement and success of worker and learner primarily in the terms of these characters and the achievement of a discipline of practical intelligence. It will put approval upon those who learn to make individual and group judgments of practice with increased and more dependable human wisdom. With a University program thus normatively ordered, it is my belief that a university education will be relined into an ever improving discipline of citizenship in a humane social order. It is my hope that we can, in our small way, here at Fort Trumbull, contribute to the type of educational program which will result in a nation of men and women who know how to make intelligent judgments of practice and who know how to work cooperatively with other men and women to determine a course of action based upon intelligence. C. A. WEBER, Director. 8

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