University of Nebraska Omaha - Tomahawk / Gateway Yearbook (Omaha, NE)

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MONA Z. WORMHOUDT Executive Secretary ment of all student jobs paid for by University or National Youth Administra- tion funds, the placement of students on outside part-time jobs other than Work- Study and the placement of those students completing special courses designed to make them immediately useful in the national defense program. From August 1, 1939, to August 1, 1940, 779 placements involving earn- ings of 35102,104 were handled by the Work-Study office. In addition to this, 574 jobs were found directly by students involving earnings of S5115,252, making a grand total of 1,353 jobs with earnings of 515217556 The Work-Study office also handles the student public address system, all applications for various forms of student aid, student identification photographs, and the reservation schedule for the photographic darkroom. The classroom provides better training for a better job, the job stimulates better classroom effort, and the function of the Work-Study office is to coordinate the two.

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y J. E. WOODS Director Work-Stud Coordination of classroom work with actual employment on a job is the activating principle of Work-Study. Some jobs at which students work are beneficial to the student only because of the financial remuneration involved, but many others offer definite training for anticipated future vocations. Jobs such as these are matched with the vocational preferences expressed by individual students, and every assistance is given the student to obtain the maximum of edu- cational value from the job. Some Work-Study jobs are on a part-time basis, while others are on an alternating basis -two students assigned to the same job, alternating between school and the job approximately every six months. In addition to Work-Study jobs, the Work-Study office handles all phases of student employment except the placement of teachers. This includes the placement of graduates, all ex-students, whether graduates or not, the assign-

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Institute of Government The Institute of Government, created in 1939, has as its primary objective the analysis and discussion of public questions immediately before the people. The speak- ers this year included Walter Laves, Wfallace McClure, Cor- nelius de Kiewiet, Egon Wfertheimer, Clifton Utley, Arthur Bunce, and Edvard Hambro. The Institute is un- der the direction of Dr. Shep- herd L. Witinan and a board of directors. Baxter Lecture Series Andre Maurois, internationally known French writer, inaugurated this year the Bax- ter Memorial Lecture series on january 16 and l7. M. Maurois lectured on 'lThe 95,4 Strengths and Weaknesses of Democracyn- the fall of France and the defense of Eng- land.