The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-28
Department Expansion.

The establishment of the county high schools, for which the last legislature made provision, will increase immediate the demand for specially trained hish school principals and teachers, and 1t ue- comes incumbent upon the university, for the purpose of supplying such principals and teachers, to enter upon an expansion of the department of philosophy and edU- cation. The normal schools are unable to
 supply the demand for teachers for the
 ele mentary schools even, and it is un-
 reasonable to expect of them that they
 will be able to meet the additional de-
 lnand for high school teachers.
 No institution in the state is making
 special provision for the framing of teaci.-
 CTS for the nigh schools. It Is conceded
 generally that those teachers should re-
 ctive college training. Necessarily and logically that training should be under
 taken by the university, and, to that end, recommend that you authorize the de- velopment of the department mentioned into quasi professional school, to be known as the department of education. It is estimated that with one more in-
 structor Gan adjunct professor) the sug-
 yusted work could be started. If the ur-
 dertaking should succeed other teachers
 could be added as the department de-
 yeops. It is thought that such a de-
 yelopment would not only meet an im-
 demand O1 the SIdIe eQucG-
 t.Onal system, but would also result in a
 largely increased enrolment of students at
 the university.
 if this expansion should be authorized
 the plan in mind would call for the organ
 ization of special faculty for the depart
 ment of education, to be composed of
 the teachers in that department and the
 teachers in related departments au1 schools.
 1o
 to permit students, at the beginning of the junior year, to begin to specialize in education, with the view of obtaining Tt
 the close of the senior year the degree of
 Bachelor Of Arts in education or Bachelor
 of Science in education, and, after an ad-
 ditional year of study Master of Arts Tn education or Master of Science in eduoa- ton.
 This work in modified forms Is being undertaken by number of institutions, nctably the Universities of Missouri and Virginia. 1 know of no more important rev service upon which the university could enter at this time.
 l Subject to your approval, provision fer entering upon this development has beet | made Tn the budget submitted below. Financial Statement. The. report includes detailed estimate | of receipts and expenditures for the next l year. The estimates total: Receipts $50, . | Tl3, expenditures $129,S70.
 Nominations for 19o8-09. | Under the authority given me by the | board of trustees, I beg leave to submit 1 the following nominations for officers of I instruction and government for the an- suing year:
 Main University. Charles H. Barnwell, dean of academic | faculty and professor of English; William | s. Thorngton, dean law faculty and pro- | lessor of law Edgar B. Kay, dean en- | gineering faculty and professor civil en- | glneering; Eugene A. Smith, professor | mineralogy and geology; Thomas c. Mc- | Corvey, professor of history and political | economy; Ormond Somerville, professor | of law; John Y. Graham, professof of bi- ology; William B. Saffold, professor of