The Alaska daily empire., 1920-09-29

management education" to provide sufficient number of properly train cd executives for the industries of the United States is to be estap- blished in majority of the 62O Am erican colleges. according to an an riourcement made to The Associated Press here today by Dr. Hollis God frey. president of the Drexel 1nsti' tut:on. Philadelphia. formerly Commis' sio-e: cf the Advisory Commission of the corncil of National Defence.
 The rlan. an outgroth of a con ven.!on attended by representatives of i~l ny and colleges in Philadel' phia lat March. is backed by cor poro'iorS representing capitalf' zat 'on or s'f 900 900 000 It is the re- sult cf E". Godfrey of these two fact org cnn''nr to definite working agrenn,s,,. for the first time through the est bl;shment of the Council ol Man gn'nent Education, An organlz- atio1 formed "to study mutual pro blew in order that the colleges may render the greatest possible service to industry Dr. Godfrey. chairman of the new body. assisted by Dr. Samuel P. Cepen General director of the American Council on Education. representing the 620 colleges, and Dr. Frederick C. Ferry. president of Hamilton col lege, are perfecting the plans which contemplates establishing practical courses in the schools assisting ul' der graduates and other to choose their life's work, by placing several thousand students and teachers ln m dustry during the summer months ana by introducing extension courses Tor men now in industry. By the summer work, students will be unabled to de fray their expences at college. obtain an insight into American industry and unable the executives to select future management men.
 The Council of Management Edu cation. which has been formed, II was said. to become clearing house for industrial and education al matters in the country, to pro mote the mutual understanding ol mutual problems of industry and the college and to keep perpetual lnveh tory of the educational needs or Ill dustrv and of the ability of the col leges to meet these needs,' has open cd temporary offices in the DreXe Building, Philadelphia. until head quarters are furnished in Washing ton
 n An annual appropriation of $lo0,0O' entirely born by American industry
 ,as been made to carry on its wor which the been divided into tw' classes. First, to determine the fielt of service which each college cal cover. and, Second. to provide th' college with all industrial data whici | may be utilized in forming under graduate courses for men already con templating entering industry and Il
 reaching the management men al 1 ready in industry through extension ! courses.
 All the courses and scholastic re
 commentators, it was said, Will D
 passed upon jointly by the Councll 0 Nanagement Education and the An
 erican Council on Education befor
 being forwarded to the institution j of learning. Within one year II l estimated. 100 colleges will have IT 1 cluded the extension courses ana al l will be provided with the industrid
 material upon which to base undel
 graduate work.
 Ybe Cornell, according to Dr. Goo ; frey. is the only war organizatio
 which has carried operations int , time of peace. Nearly all of the edl l cators back of the movement serve l in the Council of National Defence When the Armistice was signe , these men decided that the education
 al knowledge gained during the va 1 at an expenditure of millions ( dollars should not be lost. Accorf ingly. plans were set in motion [
 turn this information over to Il | dustry. A survey of the needs Of Il dustry was made under the an pices of the Technology Clubs A 1 sociated at the Massachusetts Inst ute of Technology.
 Industrial Survey
 z, In the most extensive industtl'
 survey ever made executives Of J
 of the largest corporations in Ame
 ica agreed that increased productlo decreased cost, increased stabili'
 and increased incentive were the mo
 important needs. The convention
 Philadelphia last spring met to di [ cuse these needs. It was agreed
 both college presidents and executiV'
 of Americas industries that the meet