University of Wisconsin Eau Claire - Periscope Yearbook (Eau Claire, WI)

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 ECSTC FACULTY VOTES JN SYSTEM CHANGES

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Those of us who are charged with the responsibility of guiding the destinies of this college urge that you look carefully through this chronicle of the current college scene. We feel that much is happening here to set the stage for a better and perhaps larger college at Eau Claire, and we want you to know what we are doing and what we hope to do in the future. With new and modern laboratories, improved dormitory facilities and a modernized heating plant in the realm of reality and with plans being developed for new campus school and physical education buildings, we are on the march. We look to you—alumni and citizens of our college area—to speed the realization of our dreams. W. H. DAVIES, President.

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Eau Claire State faculty members have devoted much time during 1948-49 to revitalizing and reorganizing the college curriculum and the student personnel program. The unanimous vote of the faculty to return this college to the semester plan of organization effective with the Summer Session of 1949 has necessitated the production of a completely new catalog and a reorganization of all course offerings. The adoption of a new curriculum for the preparation of elementary teachers has been implemented after much study and experimentation. The introduction of the practicum in elementary education this year and the proposed practicum in secondary education for next year has placed this college in the vanguard of progress of teacher education institutions attempting to resolve the problem of combining theory and practice. The inauguration of a faculty counseling system for Junior College and Senior College has been an asset to better guidance and counseling of students. Henceforth, nil Senior College students will be counseled by faculty members in their major field. With the adoption of criteria for admission to the Senior College, this college has committed itself to the need for selective admission and retention of teacher candidates. This is another step in building assurance that teaching is a profession. Participation of this college as one of a score of institutions in the North Central Association Study on Teacher Education has given a spirit of eagerness to improve and make available the best procedures and techniques known in the area of teacher preparation. Scores of experiments, studies, and examples of educational leadership have affected every facet of the life of the faculty. A laboratory course in beginning French, institutes for professional growth among constituents of the college, a study of academic success of the student body, the formulation of a public relations program, introduction of new general education courses—these best indicate the scope of activity of Eau Claire State’s faculty.