Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-11-13
loNo-LookEp.FoR REPORT OF
FEDERAL SURVEY coMMis.
SION 10 MADE PUBLIC.
WOULD TAKE AWAY MUCH
FROM COLLEGE ATrAMEs
Consolidation Of Engineering Schools,
y Elimination Of Two Years Of liberal
Arts Course q A,nss, and Discon-
tinuanes os football Games Between
Amss and 9. Y. ). Recommended,
Special to Times Republican.

Special to Times-Republican
Des Moines. Nov. 13.-The state
board Of education today made public
the long -looked for report Of the educa-
1tional survey commission appointed by
the federal bureau Of education at the
request Of the state board to make a
survey Of Iowa's three educational
Institutions.
Changes Of q highly important ma
ture are recommended by the commits
sion involving coordination OF courses
and the centralizing OF certain major
branches Of teaching in one institution
and abandoning . similar course IN
one OF tho other institutions Is recon-
mended. In fact the questions OF COM
Sbining courses 30 as to eliminate dupn-
cation which precipitated such 2 tight
in the state legislature two years ago
DIS dealt with fully and frankly.
The commission favors the union OF
tho two engineering schools in one
place under highly expert direction;
the daocontinuance of the last two
years In the liberal arts at the Iowa
State Teachers college; the est abiish-
ment Of additional normal schools; the
abandonment by tho State College OF
Agriculture and Mechanic ARTS OF Ell
non collegiate work except Tor limited
short courses in winter or in summer
for special groups Of studies; the ire-
adjustment of the Official Relationships
between the Office Of state superm-
tendent Of public instruction and the
state board Of education: the temper
airy discontinuance OF Too6i,aii 81 ssas11
perhaps baseball) games between the
state university and the state College
OF Agriculture and Mechanic. Arts; the
inclusion of the presidents Of the state
higher institutions. ex-oficio in the
lnernbership Of the state board Of ed
ucation without power to vote; the es-
Establishment Of $4,000 as the minimum
average salary for a collegiate depart
ment.
4 The state board in giving out the re-
port today issued q Statement that SO
far as the radical recommendations
ffof the commission are concerned the
board has no intention Of putting these
into effect @eDcept as they may win,
thru their merit, the approval OF the
educational public and the broad
minded cooperation OF the institutions
Statement Of Board.
Tho board Of educatlon's statement
and synopsis Of the report Of the
spammission follows:
The state board Of education. rec
gnizinE tho rapid progress and devel-
opment in means and methods OF ed
ucation in our own country and thru
out, the world. and DESTROYS that the
educational institutions Of dowa should
keep fully abreast Of other institutions
sof like character IN Ill that = Of pros
wen worth and Sniciency, last year re-
quested Mr. r. r. Claxton. United
States commissioner Of education. to
. assemble q commission of educators
from various parts Of tho country and
make survey of three Of nowa's in
situations of learning. to-wit: the
state university. the lows state college
OF agriculture and mechanic arts, and
the state teachers' college, TO the end
ati,at tho board might have the benefit
of suoh expert and unprejudiced opin-
ion In settling important questions Of
policy which axs constantly coming be-
fore ie for decision: and further that
certain educational guide-posts might