Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1919-12-25

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Regarding Admission to the State
University of Iowa, the Iowa
State College and the Iowa
State Teachers College.
The relationship between the high
schools and the State Institutions for
Higher Education has always been a
matte. of serious concern to the State
Beard of Education The aim has
been to effect, with the least possible
waste of time, energy, and expense,
he transfer Of more than three thou
sand Iowa youag people, annually,
from high school to College The de-
sire has been to aeeamolisll this en-
the one hand without sacrificing
Standards of college work, and on the
other hand, without embarrass ,ng The
student who has ambitions to continue
his educational training after high
school graduation.
College admission requirements
have been modified from tia.e to time
in the direction OF greater feasibility.
And now it seems to many of those
most intimately concerned with hinh-
II education IN low. hat a new pls. /,
Vt college admission should be put in
operation. On the recommendation 70
the Faculties Of the State Instisu-
lions for Higher Education, the State
Board of Education at a meeting in
0es Aioincs, December 2. 1919, adopt
ID such a plan which differs materi-
ally from the system in vogue up to
the present time. There are three
outstanding features CT this new plan,
rs follows:
a graduate Of any public four-year
nigh school will be admitted without
examination to such collegiate work
IS he is prepared to pursue in the
State University of Iowa, the Iowa
State College. and the Iowa ST
Teachers College. This provision adds
about two hundred to the list of hi",
schools whose graduates are received
nto the State Institutions without 49,
rance examinations. No barrier in
the way of entrance examinations O..
,ther formalities now exists between
the completion of high school course
and the beginning of a college course.
All that high school graduates need to
10 to get into college is to present a
certificate of high school credits
signed by the Superintcndents or
Principal of the school. The doors
are absolutely open between the high
school and the State Institutions
which Iowa has provided 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 example: A student may
graduate from high school and pre-
sent himself for admission to an en-
cheering course without having had
algebra on geometry. Since these
subjects are prerequisites to such
course he will be given an opportuni-
ty to take them at the institution he
nters, and at the same time will be
assigned to such college work as he
is prepared to carry. There is no
guarantee that high school gradu
ate will complete q college course in
four years, but he will be admitted to
College Immediately upon graduation
from high school.
A third feature of the new plan is
that of judging each high school upon
the accomplishment of it's students as
shown by their work in the State IN
stitutions for Higher Education.
Through the Board on Secondary
School Relation, repo;ts will be made
from time to time to each school re-
sarding the collegiate records of its
students
The responsibility Of carrying out
he new plan is given to the Board on
Secondary School Relations. which
consists of the Registrars of the three
State institutions. together with an
executive officer with the title of
Secretary. This Board, as during the
past nine years, viii take care of gen
nral matters pertaining to the rela-
sionship between the high schools and
the State institutions for Higher Edu-
'ation The following constitute the
Board on Secondary School Relations
ut present: Registrar H. G. Dorcas,
State University of Iowa, Registrar
Herman Pnapp, Iowa State College
Registrar c. S. Cory, Iowa Stats
Teachers College, and John E. Foster
Secretary. Mr. Fosters office is in
he office of the State Board of Edu-
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