University of Wisconsin Platteville - Pioneer Yearbook (Platteville, WI)

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Curriculum Accommodates Student Interests Bjarne R. Ullsvik The 1967-68 school year initiated the second century for Wisconsin State University-Platte- ville. During most of the first century, the curricu- lum was singularly concerned with teacher educa- tion. A legion of successful teachers who received this certification from Platteville attest to the elfectiveness of the teacher education program on this campus. During the last two decades the cur- ricular emphasis changed from teacher education to the liberal arts and engineering. Few Universi- ties in the 5,000-10,000 student category can compare to Plattevillels offerings in the liberal arts, teacher education, industrial education, business-economics, agriculture and engineering. Such a curriculum can be readily expanded to accommodate the anticipated increase in enroll- ment - about 7,500 within the next decade. Yet, a competent faculty is needed to adminis- ter a comprehensive curriculum, and additional campus services must be rendered to provide stu- dents with adequate opportunities for growth and decision-making. Each campus worthy of being called a University should be characteized by dilTerences of opinion and diverse methods of solving problems, because such involvement is inherent in the reciprocity of pursuit of truth and academic freedom. Only when the rights and freedoms of one campus entity denies those of another must some form of external discipline be substituted or sup- plement the inner discipline that should charac- terize the high privilege of being a student or a faculty member . . . The necessary interchange of ideas and associated decision-making has charac- terized all University campuses, and Platteville has not been an exception. We must hope that the experience gained in such interchange will better enable our students to make wiser decisions. Wherever our graduates find themselves, we hope that their decisions will so affect others that the basic democratic freedoms available to those on this campus may be extended to others in a chain reaction which will have had their beginnings at Platteville. May the Class of 1968 provide the beginnings of a second century of service for WSU-P. Bjarne R. Ullsvik President

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Academic Life

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Administrators Lea HAROLD BEALS, Vice President for Student Affairs, Dean of Students; B.S., Wisc. State Univ.-Platteville; M.S., Ph.D.. Univ. of Wise. FRANCIS R. DUNN, Vice President for Business Affairs, B.A., St. Ambrose COIL; M.A., Iowa Northern Univ.; Ph.D., State Univ. of Iowa. MILTON LONGHORN, Vice President of Academic Affairs, Dean of the Faculty. B,A., M.A., Ph.D., Univ. of Wise. HAROLD HUTCHESON, Vice President for Development 8L Services, Dean of School of Education, A.B., Nebraska State College, Wayne; M.A., D.Ed., Univ. ofNebraska. 29