University of Nebraska Lincoln - Cornhusker Yearbook (Lincoln, NE)

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Miss E. Mallory, secretary to the Chancellor Cftico of guidance for students Laboratories are valuable opportunities for counseling Inevitably, although the university- possesses facilities for instruction un- excelled in the state, there are, due to the increased and steadily increasing enroll- ment, many pressing needs for improve- ment in the physical facilities. At present, on the several campuses are 40 buildings devoted to educational activity, and libraries containing 325,000 volumes. Ninth on the board ' s list in the ten year state building program, and second of its proposed university improvements is a new library building. Built for $125,950 in 1891, for a university numbering 1,000 students, the present library serves in 1939 a student body increased by more than 5,000. This library seats only 6.2 per cent of the university enrollment. Now rapidly rising on the Lincoln campus, its construction made possible by a $55,000 gift of D. L. Love and by a P.W.A. grant, is the new Julia Love Memorial Resi- dence, planned to accomodate ninety-six girls. When aggressive Chancellor C. S. Boucher this year reported to the Board of Regents the findings of his investigation into the university ' s structure, immediately the Board and the Chancellor launched a program of reform and reorganization. First step, the School of Music having been reduced to the status of a depart- ment, was the establishment of a School of Fine Arts, embracing music, art, and speech departments. Dr. Arthur Westbrook will direct the new school beginning July 1, 1939. The Board also set up a bureau of instructional research to survey educational requirements. Head of the bureau is Dr. J. P. Guilford, pyschologist, and H. M. Cox. The renamed editorial and publication department, headed by Carroll Chouinard, and a new dean of women, Miss Helen Hosp, completes the major list of changes. v nnHOLL CHOUINARD Director University Publicity ELLSWORTH DUTEfiU New fllumni secretary HELEN HOSP to be dean of viromen [12]

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Elephanl Hall Ten colleges, four collegiate schools, and two secondary schools, carry on university instructional work. The grad- uate college boasts an enrollment for the first semester 1938-39, of 478 students. On the College of Agriculture campus 904 were enrolled first semester. In Omaha, there were 361 medical students and 122 enrolled in the school of nursing. By far the most popular college is the College of Arts and Sciences, with an enrollment of 1791 for the first semester. Surprising is the fact that 3,427 students do not attend the university, but receive instruction through the extension services. Disseminators of learning, the instructional staff num- bers 576, including the chancellor, four executive heads, thirteen deans, 100 professors, 54 associate professors, 80 assistant professors, 92 instructors, 25 assistant instructors, 79 special and instructional workers, and 129 fellows, scholars, and graduate assistants. In addition, there are 899 other employes on fixed stipend. Operating on a budget of $3,866,625, the university divided its expenditures for the 1937-38 year in the following manner: for instructional costs, including all colleges and the physical plant, 57 per cent; for agricultural extension and experiment station activities, 23 per cent; for special non- instructional activities, 10 per cent. Operation of dormitories the dining hall, cafeterias, book stores, and hog cholera serum plant, claims the remaining 3 per cent of expenditures. Interesting to note is the fact that budget expenditures of the university have failed to keep pace with a steadily in- creasing enrollment. In 1930-31, when 6,327 students were enrolled in the university, a budget of $4,241,551 was in operation. Since 1933-34, enrollment has increased by more than 1,000, but since 1936-37, university expenditures have steadily decreased. For the fiscal year, 1938, the university issued a financial statement which may be summarized by expenditures according to funds. Taxation money supplied $1,878,342, or 48.6 per cent; cash funds, $1,436,420 or 37.1 per cent; and federal funds, $551,862,000 or 14.3 per cent. New radio studio University Players Dental clinic Art galleries [11]

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In the library glimpses af reference room and desk Cheerleaders precede team Contributing to the improvement of agricultural methods and other practices, fourteen special activities of the university, supported by appro- priations of the legislature, render service to the people of the state. Agricultural services are the agricul- ture experiment station at Lincoln; the agricultural extension service here, v ith substations at North Platte, Mitchell, and Valentine; the Box Butte experimental farm at Alliance; the fruit farm at Union; the agronomy farm at Havelock; the state hog cholera serum p lant; and the conservation and survey division. Other activities in- clude the university museum and art gallery; the university hospital and dispensary at Omaha for the sick and poor; the dental clinic at Lincoln; and the state legislative bureau and blue book. 1131