University of Minnesota - Gopher Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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c ean of students More students is prime concern o department of the University is more concerned with rising enrollment than the Dean of Students office. The people in this office realize that University students have a great deal to learn outside the classroom, and so they strive to insure that each student has a chance to develop individually despite the large enrollment. I he office reaches the students through ten divisions which are all under its jurisdiction. For example, there is the Bureau of loans and scholarships which annually gives help to from one to two thousand students. The Student Counseling Bureau is also a division of the Dean of Students office. Through this bureau three to four thousand students receive help on their academic, vocational and personal problems. I he Orientation of new Univcrsit students also comes under the office's jurisdiction. The division which created most of the news this year, however, w as the Student ctiviries bureau. I his year the bureau created a tlurr when it sent a copy of the conduct control policy to all campus organizations. I he S B requested organizations to sign an agreement to abide by the HAL STROM, sonior personnel worker in Student Activities Bureau, checks file of publications contracts. He is a Board of Publications member. DEAN OE STUDENTS, E. G. Williamson briefs Mortin Snoke on current problems. Snokc became octing dean when Williamson took a leave of absence. I 21

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MALCOLM WILLEY, academic vice-president, is concerned mainly with such units os the dcon of students office. University librorics and the student unions. vice-presidents The outlook is not so pessimistic :is one might think, according to R. K. Summers, clean of admissions and records. At present, said Summers. “only two or three per cent of the national income is spent on education. By 1970 the gross national product will have perhaps increased l v over tot) Billion dollars. I le points to the rising percentage of those who wish to go to college as evidence that people are placing more and more value on a college education. “With cooperation from its community, he said, “the University can expand to handle the enrollment. Work and planning must Begin immediately, and the attention of the nation must Be focused on the problem that colleges and universities are facing. This has starred. Many studies are Being conducted on the proBIcm. One of them is a California and Western conference cost and statistical study of facilities and their use which is currently underway with leadership from the University. The outlook for the future w as probably summed up by President .Morrill in his opening convocation address of this year w hen he said: There w ill be changes. I do not doubt, in the plan and pattern of America’s higher education and in our State —But mv own faith docs not alter that the nation will nor turn Back from its traditions of educational opportunity, unmatched in the modern world. WILLIAM T. MIDDLCBROOK is the business vice-president. Hit jurisdiction extends over ihe University services ond physical enterprises. 20

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policy. I lie policy is not new . Inn actually bas been in effect lor two years. i he polio requires that organizations be responsible lor their members' behavior while a group activity is being conducted. Part of the reason for sending a written statement of the policy to organizations was the recent development of the all-l'nivcrsiry judiciary program. It was thought desirable to have organizations familiar yyith the policy since it is one of the bases on svhich the judiciary w ill operate. SAM also desired to |;now bow the organizations proposed to comply with tin policy and requested that the policy he annually rcvicyvcd by each group. Some organizations, namely, those that have a rather unique organizational setup, refused to sign the policy either because they felt the terms were too vague, or because they failed to see Inm they could comply yvith the policy. Many of the objections stemmed from a misinterpretation of the terms. t present, many of the misunderstandings have been, or arc in the process of being solved. AT STUDENT counseling bureau, ono of the divisions of the dean of students office, sludonls receive help on many problems. DONALD ZANDER 'left) goes over plans for orientation program with two ossistonts. Zander heads program which is one of most advanced in notion. JIM REEVES, harried day student personnel worker, pauses a moment in his to study letter just arrived from on organization.