The Jaysee Echo (Rochester, Minnesota), Volume 2, Number 1

              four Community College
JAYSEE NEWS
ROCHESTER,   MINNESOTA,   FRIDAY,   NOVEMBER   21,   1952
NUMBER  1
I The Dean's Comer\..
Enrollment figures at Rochester Junior College indicate not
i0nly an encouraging trend  in  junior college education, but a
greater interest on the part of women in such education.    The
total enrollment has increased eleven percent over last year's
figures.    The freshman class is about twenty-five percent larger
|Dnd about evenly divided between men and women.   This is the
time since the war that the men have not outnumbered the
| women about two to one.
College enrollment was expected to decrease about eight
I percent this year, but incomplete returns indicate on the contrary an increase of about that amount.    The total increase in
junior college enrollment appears to be about ten percent.    Our
| increase of slightly above that figure is encouraging.
These figures are an evidence of an increasing interest of
lour youth in education. They are also further evidence of the
dynamic nature of the junior college movement, which in forty
years has developed until it now serves over half a million students annually.
Allege Gets
face Lifting
|lhe old gray halls of R. J. C.
not what they used to be.
jyears the walls of our domain
me been all one color, original-
|a creamy tan, but changing
laduafly to a monotonous, smoky
[in color, varying only in the
(fount of accumulated grime,
tnow all this is changed.
jginning   at   Easter   vacation
spring, the corridors were re-
orated in two shades of a soft,
oyed  aquamarine,   the   Dean's
ice,   a   very   attractive   color
I elevating to the spirit.    Be-
e summer the faculty chose the
tors for classrooms and offices,
lied only by the painter's sam-
book: pastel  shades of blue,
in,   pink,   and   cream,   with
ibinations   for   variety.   Then
the summer the painters mov-
in, shunting the faculty work-
p groups from room to room
e they applied the odorless,
le-coat, fast drying, washable,
|°gic paint.   And presto, all was
nged.
I Now our rooms, are spic and
"ii bright and cheerful, even
sse who occupy them.
City Business Men
Honor «A C. Alumni
Two R. J. C. alumni were recently honored by the Olmsted
County Business Men's association.
David Bach, who attended J. C.
from 1936 to 1938, was elected
president, and Harold Hannenber-
ger, '34, was named secretary.
Mr. Bach is associated with the
Bach Music and Appliance Company and Mr. Hannenberger with
Hanny's Men's Wear.
J. C. Registrar
Elected to Post
The annual meeting of the Upper Midwest Association of College Registrars met on the campus of the University of North
Dakota, October 20-21.
Various panels, round tables,
and discussions about problems
facing colleges in general and the
office of the registrar in particular made the meeting very profitable and  inspirational.
Such topics as pre-registration,
college and career days, and
problems of the new registrar
were presented. Up-to-date information was given regarding
selective service and Public Law
550.
Mrs. Hazel Creal, RJC registrar,
was elected secretary-treasurer of
the Association.
Faculty Leads
City Workshop
Members of the RJC faculty
were leading participants at the
Workshop on Community College
Problems at the MEA Convention
held recently at the University of
Minnesota and Concordia College.
Philip Kortz, as Chairman of the
Business Education section, displayed a chart devised by him,
listing the Minnesota Junior Colleges and the 38 business subjects taught in each college and
divided into two groups, pre-uni-
versity and vocational. He
suggested that the group divide accordingly to list the problems and issues which they desired to discuss with the group as
a whole.
On the panel for Communications, Flora McGhee spoke on
"Freshman Composition and
Speech Fundamentals Courses for
Pre-Professional Students." As an
outgrowth of the day's discussion,
there are plans in the making for
an organization of all college
teachers of Language Arts for
freshmen.
Dr. Emil Heintz, on the Adult
Education panel, brought out the
importance of ascertaining the
needs of the community. He attempted to point out that in addition to requests of specific subjects the community college had
to be interested in bigger social
means, as economic and political.
It was pointed out by the RJC
representatives on the Orientation
workshop that three goals were
kept in mind in arranging the
program: improvement of scholarship; development of a spirit of
loyalty, belongingness, and pride,-
and development of a feeling of
welcome. Ethel Evans was this
year's chairman of this committee
at R. J. C.
Two of the faculty members
acted as recorders—Ruth Towle
for the Business Education section
and Mary Goette for the Psychology—Student Activities section.
In the general business session
which concluded the junior college workshop, Charles Singley,
Rochester chemistry instructor, was
honored by being elected president of the Junior College section of the M. E. A.
Legislature Studies
Junior College Aid
Minnesota was one of the pioneers in the junior college movement, for between 1918 and 1920 about half a dozen junior colleges
were organized in our state. Educators came here to study this new
development in education and went back to their home states to start
colleges there. Today, however, in most states, the program surpasses Minnesota's.
One reason our state has not kept abreast of the movement is
the failure of our legislature to give the financial support to the junior colleges that it does to the rest of our educational program. Each
biennium our legislature appropriates millions of dollars to aid education from the kindergarten through the twelfth grade. Additional
millions are appropriated for vocational schools, the teachers colleges,
and the University. Money is also given to aid special schools for
the blind and for others who are handicapped. With generous as:
sistance from our state legislature, education is provided for from the
kindergarten to schools of higher education granting the Ph.D. and
M.D. degrees. The only link in the chain which has been neglected
by our state is the junior college.    Many other states have provided
J. C. Students
Succeed at U.
Dr. Robert J. Keller of the University of Minnesota made the following statement at a recent meeting of Junior College educators—
"Of all students transferring to the
University from State colleges,
teachers' colleges and junior colleges of this State, transfers from
junior colleges make the best
scholastic record at the University." Another study indicated
that a greater percentage of junior college transfers graduated
from University courses than those
transferring from other state educational institutions of higher
learning.
These statements, though based
on a recent study, are applicable
to a'Situation that has existed for
quite a, period of years. Previous studies have revealed that
the pre-professional courses offered at junior colleges in the State
have enabled transfer students
from these schools to complete
their work at the University with
very little change in the record
they have established in the two-
year schools.
Graduates of Rochester Junior
College who have transferred to
the University of Minnesota have
established an enviable record
when compared to transfers from
other junior colleges of this State.
It should be the aim of all present and future students of this
school to maintain this level of
scholastic achievement.
this aid.    Why not Minnesota?
A bill will be presented to the
1953 legislature which will give
the same aid to junior colleges
that is now given to high schools.
Should this bill become law, students whose legal residence is
Rochester and who attend the local college will receive the following benefits: 1. No tuition or
fees will be charged; 2. Free text
books will be provided. Residents
of Minnesota who do not live in
Rochester will receive the same
benefits and in addition transportation to Rochester on the same
basis now provided for high school
students. In other words, the student's financial responsibilities will
be the same as they were in high
school. State Aid thus extends
the principle of public school education through the thirteenth and
fourteenth grades.
This plan is in line with what
other states are doing; in fact, it
does not accomplish as much as
some, notably Mississippi and
Washington. It conforms to the
recommendations of fhe Presidential Commission on Higher Education, President James B. Con-
ant of Harvard University, the National Association of State School
Administrators, President - elect
Dwight D. Eisenhower, and many
others who have studied the problems, including three Minnesota
committees on the problems of
post high school education. This
plan has also been endorsed by
the . Delegate Assembly of the
Minnesota    Educational    Associa-
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