University of Wyoming - WYO Yearbook (Laramie, WY)

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Anton Munari Civil Engineering Anton Munari teaches in the Civil Engin- eering Department. About teaching he said, 'CI love teaching very much, and Iyve always been teaching Freshmen. Because we have a lecture-lab type thing We get to know stu- dents very Well. I suppose if I werenit able to get to them that closely I wouldnit enjoy teaching as much as I do. UI would say that my biggest complaint about the University of Wyoming is that our salaries as far as people without PhD's is not sufficient. I only have a masters degree and have had one since 1958 and been on the faculty for seventeen years. Right now many of our starting people with B.S. degrees within six months or a year make the same salary I do after seventeen yearsf' 24

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M artha Christe nsen Botany Martha Christensen is an Associate Professor in Botany. Her specialty is mycology, the study of fungi. I enjoy having students with the ranching and farming backrou nd. Then they have the practical side to botany. They have seen many of the things we talk about. They know from experience the effects of herbicides and plant hormones. I think botany and biology need to be related to the real world instead of always being under the microscope. It destresses me to find graduate students who donit know the common trees. It is absolutely essential to relate our biological and botanical knowledge to the earthf,

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james Hook Education james Hook is a Professor of Education. He is in his tenth year at UW. I believe in testing or evaluation. I think evaluation is a much better word than testing. I give students options as to whether they want an essay or a multiple choice examination. There are students who do not do well on either of these two types of tests, and I would allow a student to take an oral examination if he wanted to. The major consideration is that the student learns the knowledge to become proficient in what he wants to do. HI have a lot more confidence in the students than some people do .... I don,t think we have tapped the real potential that students have to make decisions about their own behavior and their own lives. This is one area we need to give a good deal more attention to.