The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1919-12-17
new REGULATIONS
STATE COLLEGES
College Admission Requirements Have
Been Modified From Time to Time
If New Plan Now in Operation
ADMISSION RULES CHANGED
Any Public Four Year High School
Graduate Admitted Without Exami-
nation for Work Contemplated

The relationship between the high
schools and the state institutions for
higher education has always been a
matter Of serious concern to the state
board of education. The aim has been
ito effect, with the least possible waste
fer of more than three thousand Iowa
young people, annually, from high
school to- college. The desire has been
to accomplish this on the one hand,
without sacrificing standards of college
work, and on the other hand, without
embarrassing the student who has am.
billions to continue his educational
training after high school graduation.
College admission requirements have
been modified from time to time in the
direction of great flexibility. And now
1t seems to many of those most init
mately concerned with higher education
In Iowa that q new plan of college adj
mission should be put in operation. On
the recommendation of the faculties Of
the state institutions for higher educa-
ton, the state board of education at a
meeting In Des Moines, Dec. 2, 1919,
adopted such plan which differs mate.
rally from the system in vogue up to
the present time. There are three out
standing features of this new plan as
follows:
"A graduate of any public four year
high school will be admitted without eX-
animation to such collegiate work as he
Is prepared to pursue in the State uni
versity of Iowa, the Iowa State college
and the Iowa State Teachers college,
This provision adds about two hundred
to the list Of high schools whose gradu.
ates are received into the state institu.
lions without entrance examinations. No
barrier in the way Of entrance eXami-
nations or other formalities now exist
between the completion of high school
course and the beginning of a college
course. All that high school graduates
need do to get into college is to present
a certificate Of high school credits sign.
ed by the superintendent or principal
Of the school. The doors are absolutely
open between the high school and the
state institutions which Iowa has pro-
vided for higher education.
In the second place, provision will be
made at the state institutions for the
removal of all DEFICIENCIES for admission
to specific collegiate courses. For ex.
ample: A student may graduate from
high school and present himself for adj
mission to an engineering course with
out having had algebra or geometry
Since these subjects are prerequisites
to such a course he will be given an OPP.
pOrtunity to take them at the institu.
ton he enters, and at the same time
Will De assigned TO Sucl college work
as he is prepared to carry. There is no
guarantee that a high school graduate
will complete a college course in four
years; but he will be admitted to COL
lege' Immediately upon graduation from
high school. 81
Al third feature of the new plan is
that Of Judging each high school upon
the accomplishment Of its students as
shown by their work in the state insti
TUTORS for higher education. Through
the board on secondary school relations,
reports will be made from time to time
to each school regarding the collegiate
records of its students.
The responsibility of carrying out the
new plan is given to the board on Sec
Ondary school relations, which consists
OF the registrars of the three state in
stftutions, together with an executive
officer with the title of secretary. This
board, as during the past nine years,
will take care of general matters per-
tanning to the relationship between the
high schools and the state institutions
for higher education. The following
constitute the board on secondary
school relations at present: Registrar
III. c. Dorcas. State University of
Iowa; Registrar Herman Knapp, Iowa
State college; Registrar c. S. Cory.
Iowa State Teachers college, and John
e. Foster, secretary. Mr.. Fosters of.
flee is in the Office Of the state board Of
education DeS MOineS