University of Iowa - Hawkeye Yearbook (Iowa City, IA)

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' . f , ' GEORGE F. KAY Dean c The College of Liberal Arts HE College of Liberal Arts is the oldest of all of the colleges of the University of Iowa campus. It is the center from which the other colleges have sprung and around which they have been developed. It serves the purpose of of- fering a firm and concrete foundation for creative work in the other colleges and schools on the campus. The college includes, at the present, three schools, namely, the School of Journalism; the School of Music ; and the School of Religion. There are also twenty-three departments, all of which give courses not alone to undergraduate but to graduate students. The four types of courses which are organized within the college are : the Standard Course ; the Special Courses ; the Combined Courses ; and the Semi-Pro- fessional Courses. The students are able to select their work so as to obtain a broad education and to secure a basis for a professional training. The college affords a cultivation of the students in their ideals of a general culture and for them to acquire a knowledge of a direct service in a chosen field. In the year 1927-1928 the registration in the Liberal Arts college exceeded 5,500 students. The instructional staff, including assistants, comprises more than 400 persons. The College is planning continually, in its curricular activities, to meet the needs of the individual students. The hope of the faculty is that the young men and women of today may be so educated that when they graduate they will enter their life work well-trained and imbued with the spirit of service. - a i n ' - JOHN FALVEY VIRGIL DAVID ORAN H. PAPE HAROLD J. SAKS Twenty f

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a . ifta Mttrf ijpl WK5IIM3K ' ' Ml HUB III I V Deem o Men ROBERT E. RIENOW Dean i FNCE the enrollment at the University of Iowa is much greater than in former years and the educational processes are carried on with a lower cost, many new problems have arisen to place mphasis on the direct needs of the individual student. The students should be guided wisely and all instruc- :ion should fit their particular needs, so, standing )etween the University and the private individual is ;he Dean of Men with the responsibility of the co or- Hnation of the interests of each on his hands. Dean Rienow fulfills the situation with a twofold policy. First, he is of the opinion that the office of the Dean of Men should be a service station to the needs and wants of all the university men. There are numerous problems and adjust- ments of school life which happen every day. These are systematically and sym- pathetically handled through the Dean ' s office. The concept of this function of the Dean ' s office is that it shall eliminate friction and misunderstanding and work to increase the efficiency of the whole university system. The second phase of Dean Rienow ' s policy is an idea which he has developed since taking over this administration at the University of Iowa. He believes that the present system of discipline under which the faculty makes and enforces an arbitrary set of rules is entirely outworn. He also believes that its place can be taken over by a system of student government under advisory faculty control. Such a system would necessitate a student body consciousness that would create its own tenants of behavior and assume the authority and the responsibility. In Nineteen

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II I Bill, 1 I E ! I! c i . i r I HENRY S. HOUOHTON Dean T ?e College of Medicine WITH the autumn session of 1928-29 the College of Medicine entered a new phase in its development. A group of recently constructed buildings, carefully designed to bring together into a harmonious and effective unit the various divisions of the college, has provided a phy- sical equipment of unusual beauty and usefulness. It seems particularly appropriate to formulate objectives for future work, in the light of the long and honorable history which has preceded the present stage of the existence of the College. In summarizing the situation as it now stands it may be said that the College has under instruction four hundred sixty -one students of medicine, two hundred fourteen students of nursing, and five hundred eighty-five students of other colleges enrolled for courses offered in the College of Medicine. This registration involves a task in education to which the faculty is seriously addressing itself. The aim of the college, educationally, is to produce from carefully chosen young men and women of Iowa, the high type of leadership in the field of medicine, and in service of the commonwealth for which this college was designed by those who laid its broad foundation. Closely associated with the task of teaching is that of healing: the new General Hospital which provides a total of approximately a thousand beds will be devoted to the medical care of the people of Iowa, principally those who are unable to pay for private professional service. While some accommodations for pay patients are available competition with practicing physicians is avoided. Twenty-one