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

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Beyond the bachelor degree How much more time must a graduate student spend studying over the average undergraduate? “Ugh! One hundred percent more!’’ one 22-year-old graduate student moaned. Despite that, more people enroll every semester in UWEC’s School of Graduate Studies. According to Dr. R. Dale Dick, dean of the School of Graduate Studies. Eau Claire first offered a graduate program in 1960. The only degree offered at that time was the Master of Science in Teaching. Today the school offers five degrees in 14 areas of concentration. Twenty-four academic departments offer graduate courses. Currently, the school offers the following degrees: Master of Science in Teaching (MST) with programs in elementary education and reading, junior high education, business education, music, and secondary education with specialization in history and social science. English, speech, chemistry, biology and mathematics; Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT), for student with liberal arts degrees who wish to become qualified to teach in public secondary schools, with specializations in business, music, history, English, speech, chemistry, biology and mathematics; Master of Science in Education (MSE) with specializations in communicative disorders, school psychology and special education; the Master of Arts (MA) with specializations in English and history; and the Master of Science (MS) with specializations in biology, chemistry, instruction and administration in Medical Techology. and Communicative Disorders. In addition. Dick said the school was accredited this year to offer a program for the Specialist in Education in Business Education degree. He noted that the University is also planning to offer degrees in Specialist in School Psychology and Specialist in Special Education, and MS programs in Nursing and in Public Health in the future. The most popular degree programs are specialized in elementary education, communicative disorders, special education and business education. About 600 graduate students enroll each semester, but only about one-third of them are full-time students. During the fall 1975 semester, only 132 of 609 students were full-time students. By contrast. 8,256 of the 8,736 under graduates were full-time students. During that same semester, which was a typical one, 413 students were women, and 196 were men. Sixty-five percent of all graduate students this year were married; only 7.6 percent of the undergraduates were married. This partially explains why only four graduate students lived in the residence halls. Most of the graduate students here were Wisconsin residents. Dick said most of the graduate degree programs can be completed in one or two years. The average semester credit load is 12 hours. But graduate students are expected to maintain a 3.0 gradepoint average, and many of the students are required to take an oral examination and to write a thesis. Maybe that explains why a graduate student has to study “100 percent’ more than the undergraduate does. A• a fringe benefit of being a UWEC graduate itudmt. a tpecial lounge ueu et aude on the library ' fourth floor for graduate itudent only

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 The typical student may not share Joe College’s hysteria, but he can certainly empathize with the problem. It is clearly evident that UWEC suffers from an acute case of insufficient student space. In fact, Eau Claire presently has the least square footage of space per student of all campuses in the system. Fortunately, a remedy is at hand. Relief comes in the shape of the new W. R. Davies University Center addition, set to be completed by December. If all goes according to schedule, it should be operational by the 1977 spring semester. According to James Bollinger, assistant chancellor for administrative services, the addition will alleviate the greatest space problems by creating areas for student relaxation and group meetings. The lower level will contain a After tearing down the old Schofield Annex latt fall, worken began construction of the new addition to the student union They worked through the winter 31