The Carolinian [February, 1953]

              Alumnae Fund
Reports
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Woman's College—"Distinguished for Its Democracy"
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VOLUME XXXIV Z531 WOMAN'S COLLEGE OT THE t'MVERSITV OF NORTH CAROLINA. (.KEKNSBORO. N. C . IH1HI \HV. 1953 M MBER 13
Budget Request Hits
$3f300f000 in '53-'55
At Woman's College
Amount Stated Includes
New Buildings, Salaries,
Renovation, Equipment
Budget requests for the Woman's
College for 1953-55 amount to over
$3,300,000 according to a state-ment
released by University Presi-dent
Gordon Gray.
These biennial budget requests
were made before the Advisory
Budget Commission after having
originated in the departments,
schools and colleges and processed
through regular committee chan-nels
where they received careful
screening and considered thought.
The Advisory Budget Commis-sion
considered Woman's College
requests and those of over 50
other state agencies and reported
its recommendations to the state
legislature in January. 1953.
Total permanent Improvements
asked for new security and safety
measures for the campus, repairs
and renovation of Woman's and
Kirkland Dormitories (or as an
alternative, a new dormiuiryi, the
repair and renovation of Spencer
Dining Hall, of the old Library
(Continued on Page Kightj
Inter-Faith Forum Date Set
'Religion in Education'
The Inter-Faith Forum, formerly
called Religious Emphasis Week,
will extend February 8 throush 11
this year under the topic. "Reli-gion
in Higher Education "
Ministers, invited by the rcli-
Kious groups, will conduct evening
discussions in the halls.
Faculty panels will present sub-ject!
of academic and religious in-terest1
and Inter-denominational
worship services will be held
Ministers prominent in the field
of religious education will con-duct
the opening panel on Mon-day
afternoon, and a lecture will
be in Aycoek Monday night.
The opening service, on Sunday,
February 8. will be the University
Sermon sponsored by the Sopho-more
Class Speakera for these
occasions will be announced In the
near future
The Inter-Faith Forum, a high-light
of the religious activities pro-gram
on campus, li organised and
sponsored by the Inter-Faith Coun-cil
with the full cooperation of all
denominational groups, the YWCA
and the Lecture Series Committee
Each sub-committee has a stu-dent
chairman and one or more
faculty consultants. The directors
and advisers from church groups
listing the committees in the
planning and development pro-gram.
CALENDAR
of
College Events—1953
January -June
Examinations January 19-24
Inter-Faith Forum February Nil
Gym Meet (tent.) February 28
March 19-21
March 29
April 21-24
April 23-25
May 2
May 23-29
May 30
May 30
Arts Forum
Faster Concert
State Music Contest
Dolphin-Seal Pageant
May Day
Examinations
Alumnae Day
Class Day
Commencement May 30-June 1
Bureau Furnishes
NewsofWCUNC
The saying. 'It pays to adver-
I Use," is proven to be true by the
\ accomplishments of the News
Bureau, a part of the public rela-tions
department of the college.
The bureau has made the state
. familiar with the college by get-
1 ting out an average of 600 to 800
news stories and 250 pictures each
year concerning the college, facul-
; ty. and students. It has contact with
40 dallies, five syndicates. 130
weeklies, 60 out of state papers
and 10 radio stations Special ar-ticles
are sent to magazines from
time to time
An important function of the
bureau is to report to the state on
this branch of its educational sys-tem.
It tells of the work, progress,
needs and services ot the college.
The main work consists of dis-tributing
news about the writing!
and research of faculty members,
honors and outstanding activities
of the students, and the overall
college program.
Albert A. Wilkinson has been
director of the news bureau since
' 1947.
Hall of Fame Portraits
Hang in Administration
A hall of fame has been creat-|
ed in the first floor corridor of the
Administration Building at Wo-man's
Colic
Portraits of Dr Mclver. Dr. |
Foust. and Dr. Jackson now hang I
there.
A committee was appointed by j
Chancellor F. K. Graham to find!
a suitable place to hang the like-nesses
of President Chariot I'
Mclver. President Julius I. Poust,
and Chancellor Walter C. Jack-son.
This committee decided that
no place could he more appropriate |
for the portraits than the main
hall of Administration where these
leaders had spent countless hours.,
Dr. Mclver's portrait had pre-|
viously hung on a wall in the chan-j
cellor's office; Dr. Foust's above
an entrance landing in Aycoek; and,
Dr. Jackson's in the Green Room;
of the Alumnae House.
Students Will Evaluate Teaching
In Spring Through Rating Sheets
In the spring of 1953 students
here at North Carolina's college
for women will be looking at their \
teachers with a critical eye and
putting a mark down for what they
see.
This kind of student evaluation
of teaching came into being in
1951 when Woman's College stu-dents
were presented the idea by
the campus branch of the National
Students Association.
The student-perpetuated Idea
went before the student legislature
which appointed a committee of a
faculty and students to investigate
such an evaluation
This group reported their find-ings
to the legislature and then to
the Chancellor, who. In turn, ap-pointed
a group of faculty and
students to further study and now
the process has been turned over
to a committee of students who
have faculty aid only in that they
consult the faculty committee on
evaluation when they need Infor-mation
as to how to proceed In
getting data for their program.
Actual evaluation will consist of
forms and instruments listing
qualifications of a teacher which
will be rated anonymously by the
students, statistics compiled by a
qualified agency outside the col-lege
and the Information returned
to the individual professor. There
will be no identification except
the teacher's name.
No administrative control or
contact will occur in the process.
Student evaluation of teaching
is not a new thing in United States
college education and currently
Brooklyn College stands among the
foremost in the technique of rating
sheets.
Although not a unique pro-cedure,
student evaluation will be
given a new development, accord-ing
to Dr. Lyda Gordon Shivers
from the faculty evaluation com-mittee
who has assisted the stu-dents
upon request.
She reports that the students
hope to draw summary conclusions,
which has not been done, from all
data. deciding. for example,
whether there is any difference In
the rating perspective of social
science students and natural
science students.
Present plans point toward the
initiation of the actual rating in
the spring of 1953 as the result of
two years' study and thought de-voted
to the project by the stu-dents.
Faculty Criteria Used
As Promotion Basis
Chancellor Comments on
Value of Qualifications
Something new Is taking place
Ui the faculty ranks at Woman's
i College.
The usual schoolroom procedure
has been reversed and the teach-er
is getting a grade.
Faculty are being evaluated ac-
! cording to criteria for promotions
and appointments approved by the
Faculty Advisory Committee and
recommended to the College Chan-cellor
the past April. 1952.
The "report card" is a faculty
evaluation form based on the crit-eria
set up by the advisory group
and it is already in use.
In submitting recommendations
regarding staff members, depart-ment
chairmen are required to
make specific confidential Judg-ments
on specific qualifications of
the individuals involved.
Divided into four main areas,
teaching ability, professional at-tainments,
valued personal traits,
and leadership and service, the
criteria are applied to instructors,
assistant professors, associate pro-fessors
and full professors. Increas-ing
stress is laid on the required
qualifications as the faculty rank
advances.
The significance of such a plan
is primarily to foster better teach-ing
and to give every teacher an
equal and fair chance at promo-tion.
Chancellor Graham in making
a statement about the aim and
function of the criteria says:
"The purpose of the criteria for
faculty promotions and appoint-ments,
which were approved by
the faculty last May and recom-mended
to the administration in
the Spring of 1952, are designed
to focus attention on certain basic
values which are to be kept clear-ly
in mind in connection with pro-motions
and appointments within
the four ranks of the faculty.
"It is recognized that human
cannot be measured by any
arbitrate standard, and that a wide
range of talents and personal quali-fications
is not only to be expected
hut also to be encouraged In a high
spirited and Intellectually Inde-pendent
community of teachers
and scholars We recognize our
obligation to look for excellence
within ■ dimension sufficiently
broad to encompass the high-spirit-ed
and intellectually independent.
;.et sufficiently explicit in terms
of values to give substance and
focus to our commitment to excel-lence
"In addition to completing the
form, the department head sub-mits
such statements and support-
Ing material! as he or she feels
may be pertinent to the case under.
consideration. Recommendations
are regularly reviewed with
senior members of the Faculty Ad-visory
Committee, viz, those of
full professional rank, who are
therefore, not subject to further
promotion themselves, before final
action is taken."
Infirmary Features New
Facilities for Patients
Remember trudging through the
rain and mud to get to the in-firmary?
Remember the endless hours you
spent sitting In the waiting room,
dreading the moment when the
nurse would call. "Next."
The Woman's College student of
the near future will be tripping
gaily to the New Infirmary In Pea-body
Park next door to Menden-hall
. . . equipped with a modern
laboratory. X-ray machine, and a
kitchen.
In addition to a sun deck for
girls well enough to get up for a
few hours, the new Infirmary also
boasts a recreation room, com-plete
with soft easy chairs, and
magazines.
Since recently discovered anti-biotics
have greatly reduced the
bed patients at Woman's College,
the new Infirmary will have Just
as many beds as the old one, but
oh, what beds!
General Education Plans
Experimental Courses,
Tests Teaching Effectiveness
Social Science Forum Educational Circles
Explores Tensions Hit With Controversy
In Middle East OnTeacherEducation
Student Group Meets
To Discuss Informally
GE Program Objectives
Woman's College faculty, stu-dents,
and alumnae are designing
:i tailor-made General Education
.Program to suit Woman's College
| At the present time the commit-tees
on general education are en-gaged
In planning courses in the
humanities, social studies, and
natural sciences and are exploring
the possibility of offering these
experimentally within the college
'curriculum next September.
I Secondly1, they are planning to
inaugurate a program that will
measure in various ways the
effectiveness of the present cur-riculum
and of the experimental
courses of study which will be
offered.
Therr is no disposition on the
par! of these groups, state* Dr
Marc Friedlacander, chairman of
general education, to follow the
Humanities Lecturer
From Chicago at WC
An exchange has been made.
A general education profes-
: aor from Chicago comes to
Woman's College, while a
Woman's College professor
goes to Harvard to study gen-eral
education.
For the first time in the his-tory
of Woman's College, a
lecturer in humanities has put
in his appearance on the fac-ulty.
Dr. MePer Isenberg comes
to the College as a visiting
professor In the department of
classics, while Dr. Frank A.
Lalne la on leave of absence
studying under the general
education program at Harvard.
Dr. Isenberg. from the Uni-versity
of Chicago, is also a
member of the Woman's Col-lege
general education commit-tee
on the humanities.
Forum Reduced to One
Day With Panels,
Round Tables
The Middle East, which easily
mlghl become either the dynamite
cap to world explosion or the key-
, stone to world peace, was discuss-
■ ed November 21 at a one-day ses-jsion
of the annual Harriet Elliott
Social Science Forum at Woman's
College.
Press Reaction Conies
From Editorial Boards;
Educators Object
The education of teachers which
reaches Into every school and child
life In North Carolina has become
a live-wire issue in state educa-tional
circles.
Controversy broke loose in May.
1952. when Chancellor E. K. Gra-ham
presented the debated ques-
I'nder the general topic, 'Ten- [ tion to the North Carolina Editorial
slons in the Middle East." three Writer's Conference in Chapel Hill.
STUDENT VOLUNTEERS . . . donate blood for annul
force* use on bultlelront . . . May «. 1951—257 students and
faculty exceeded the college quota when they gate blixxl to
the Red Cross Bloodmobile operation at Woman's College
guest speakers were heard at
morning, afternoon, and evening
sessions.
Moderator for the forum was Dr.
Cornelius Wlllem de Klewlet. ex-pert
on Hnii-.li Foreign policy, and
president of Rochester University.
With him was Professor Jacob
C. Hurewitz, professor of govern-menl
In the Near and Middle East
Studies Program at Columbia Uni-veralty,
and Professor T. Cuyler
Young, protestor Of Persian lang-uage
and history at Princeton Uni-versity,
anil editor of S>ar East-ern
Culture and Society.
Delegations of students and
faculty members from many col-leges
and universities attended.
Chancellor Edward K. Graham
opened the morning forum.
Held annually as a memorial to
the late Dean KHiott and to pro-mole
discussion and understand*
la] affairs on a world
Mala, the lonun Una year was re-stricted
to one day instead, of the
usual three.
College Ranks High
In U. 5. Universities
Warrants Recognition
By Leading Associations,
Honorary Fraternities
Student Scholarships
Reach 199 This Year
Alumnae Chapters Give
Funds for Girls from
County
Financial aid from scholarships.
I Student gfoup. which has been loans and aelf-help work Is the
In session once with the general vitalizing influence which sends
education steering committee, be-gan
meeting last writ* to discuss m»W Woman's CoUege studentt on
informally the problems of gen- ,hclr wav lo a diploma.
pattern of any other college Tin-plan
is in develop a program of
teaching thai represents Woman's
College thinking and best educates
Woman's College students
Out of 233 leaching faculty. 78
HIS have already been ac-tlvely
engaged in the business of
general education by serving on
committees.
The issue is one of the most con-troversial
ones to have arisen In
North Carolina education In recent
years
Press reaction has been wide-spread
coming from the editorial
and reportorial pens of the Jarger
newspapers in the state as well aa
many smaller ones.
Further significance was added
to the dispute recently when Dr.
Graham, speaking for the Central
Committee on Cooperative Re-search,
introduced the problem at
the North Carolina College Con-ference
In Wlnston-Salem. Novem-ber
7.
Recommendations from the com-mittee
were:
"1 That the College Conference
gO on record as favoring a review
of certification requirements as
they relate to the education of
public school teachers, a review
directed initially toward certifica-tion
requirements for teachers in
the elementary schools.
2. That the Conference recom-mend
to the State Superintendent
of Public Instruction and the
Board of Education <a) the estab-lishment
of an Advisory Commit-tee
from the Colleges and Univer-sities,
if. In their judgment, such
a committee would be helpful, and.
if such an advisory committee
should he desired by the State Su-perintendent
and the Board; 4b>
that it be consulted regarding the
Woman's College ranks high ]rfview of teacher certification re-among
American Universities sad I quirementsi and (O) continuation
hut JII.i where It is im-lof ""' SdsiSOIJ commttee aa a
possible to evaluate mMM of m"'cl '■«"•'-■' '" '"•'
„No criteri,a h, ave ever .been iui S, tate Superintendent of Public
CConttaaed on Page f'.ight)
Dean Taylor Will Be
1952-53 Arts Forum
Committee Chairman
This year 199 students have
been granted scholarships from
funds controlled by the college.
These funds amount to a prom-ised
total of $32,802.
The Escheats Fund provides the
largest number of scholarships.
The income from the loan of the
principal of this money Is granted
as scholarships to the students of
Miss Katherlne Taylor, dean of. the Consolidated University. The
students, accepted appointment the division of the money Is based on
week of October 31 as chairman |tne enrollment as of October 1
of the Arts Forum Committee for|earn vear In 1952-53 seventy or
1952-53, and Jean Holllnger '53, more Woman's College students
became student chairman of the!*111 receive scholarship grants
group, following action by Chan-!'rom ,n's fund
cellor Edward K. Graham. The second largest scholarship
Each of the participating arts ls|'» the Roxie Armfield King
represented by a member of the Memorial fund which will benefit
cessfully established to rate insti-tutions
of higher learning though
many agencies, including the U. S.
Government, have attempted It.
A Gallup Poll might be able to
record a college's standing by or-!
ganizations which recognize It
with membership.
Leading groups of which the
Woman's College is a member in-clude:
Southern Association of Col-leges
and Secondary Schools; As-sociation
of American Colleges;
American Council on Education;
Southern Association of Colleges
for Women; North Carolina Col-lege
Conference. Also Woman's
College is on the approved list of
the Association of American Uni-versities.
Woman's College graduates are
also eligible for membership In
the American Association of Uni-versity
Women.
The 10 honorary and scholastic
organizations which have chapters
here are: Phi Beta Kappa, general
scholarship; Phi Kappa Lambda,
music; Sigma Delta Pi, Spanish;
Tau Psi Omega. French; Delta Pi
Epsllon, business education; Al-pha
Psi Omega, drama; Phi Al-pha
Theta. history; Omicron Nu.
home economics; Alpha Kappa Del-bi-
86 students
Host of the scholarships arc for «»• sociology; and Beta Beta.
$100. Sears Roebuck Company of-1 ology.
$100
faculty, who will organize a sub-committee
within his or her area
to develop plans for the Forum.
Two members of the student'fers eight scholarships to I
body will be selected from each freshmen from rural communities Honor Policy Enters N. C.
area by the area sub-committees. (Cnnlinu-,1 „n Page Seven; u»«l« ku <„cc;„„ rt* VUf
Customarily, each area sub-com-mittee
has selected a representa-tive
from the Junior Class and
one from the Senior Class.
In addition to the four faculty
members at large now appointed
Slow Burn Smolders Over
Spencer Phone Call
Schools by Session at WC
Each fall high school students
from all over North Carolina con-vene
at Woman's College for an
A slow burn is smouldering Honor Policy Conference
mong the girls In Spencer Hall, j Woman's College Honor Board
to the Arts Forum Committee, ad-'one of the older dormitories here. | members make arrangements for
dltional members may be added It would be too bad If the girls, the program of the conference, and
within the discretion of Miss Tay-! could get their hands on the per- ] help introduce the organization and
lor and her committee. son at the other end of a long dls- functions of a Policy to the high
Miss Taylor succeeds Dr. John tance phone call received at the school students, so that they may
Courtney who has joined the fac- college switchboard recently. take the model back to their high
ulty of the New Jersey College The caller wanted to be con- schools for development of an
for Women. nected with Spinster Hall. I Honor Policy.
Instruction) in matters of policy
relating to teacher education."
Both recommendations were de-feated
by conference members.
(OonUmui M Page Bight)
Campus Stores Groups
Initialed in University
The Campus Stores Committee
is putting in an appearance at
Woman's College as the result of
a University Board of Trustees de-cision.
In May of 1952 the Board of
Trustees of the Consolidated Uni-versity
of North Carolina voted
unanimously to set up rules and
regulations controlling the mer-chandising
practices on the
campuses of the three branches
of the University.
The profits received from book
stores, cafeterias, and certain other
specified kinds of merchandising
will be established in trust funds
and grants-ln-ald
According to the act passed,
there will be on each campus of
the University a Campus Store
Committee which will be advisory
to the assistant-controller-business
manager.
Three students appointed by the
president of the student body and
three faculty members appointed
by the Chancellor will constitute
the committee.
The Campus Stores Committee
is to meet once a month, at which
time the managers of the campus
stores will be present The com-mittees
will entertain complaints,
criticisms, and suggestions from
the students through the student
representatives and those of the
faculty.
The awarding of grants-in-aid
will be based on character, schol-arship,
leadership and will be made
in compliance with all regulations
of the individual institutions of
the Consolidated University.