The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1925-04-22

ON~N1% ~
lege has been granted full national
membership in the American Associa-
ton of University Women and has
been placed on the first list of this
nation wide rating agency. This, in
reality, is a greater achievement than
at first appears because Montana
State College is the third Institution
which grants only a B. S. degree to
be accepted to full membership, Kan
sas State College and Oregon State
College having been admitted last
year. Of the $50 colleges in the
United States admitting women, only
143 are on the A. A. U. W. list.
The Bozeman Alumnae Club of
Montana State College had some cor-
r~espOndence concerning requirements
for admission to A. A. u. w. a few
years ago, but last year the first for
nal application wa prepared anG
sent in by a committee appointed by
President Atkinson and composed of
Miss Gladys Branegan and Miss
Frieda Bull. The first petition did
not receive favorable action by the
National Committee on Recognitions,
due largely to lack of information
concerning conditions at the college
which can be obtained satisfactorily
only by personal visits. The fact that
Dean T. Louise Nardin of the Univer-
sity of Wisconsin, who is chairman of
the American Association of Univer-
s!ty Women Committee on Recogni-
ton of Colleges and DR.. Aurelia H.
Reinhardt, National president of the
A. A. U. w. were secured by Dean
Herrick as speakers at the 1924 Girls
Vocational Congress, provided an ex-
cellent opportunity for these impor-
tant officials to secure first hand in
formation concerning conditions for
women on Montana State College
campus. A second petition was pre-
pared by the committee and sent in
last fall. Mrs. NJ. J. Hutchins of Mis-
soula, Director of the North Rocky
Mountain Section of the A. A. U. w.
has done much to hasten the admis-
sion Of Montana State College through
her attendance and work at the Ma
tOnal Conventions and Directors
meetings.
Organized
In 1892.
The American Association of Uni
versity Women is the only nation
vide organization of college women,
having been organized in 1882 and
having for its chief purpose the i'm
prOvement Of conditions for women,
both students and faculty, in the edu-
cational institutions of the country.
From its beginning it has stood for a
bread cultural education for women
as contrasted with courses which are
highly specialized and technical.
Among its other standards are pro.
per provision for the intellectual anC
social needs of women students and
proper recognition of women in the
student body, adequate provision o.
health service by the institution, /;
dean Of women, adequate dormitory
facilities, reasonable recognition oil
women on the faculty, providing tina
the women of the faculty should re
ceive the anne salaries as men of tn
same rank and have opportunities TO
promotion, and that women are al
ways to be represented on the gov
erning board of the Institution.
The A. A. u. W. assumed its pres
ent form and name in 1921 as tn
result of the combination of the AS
sociation of Collegiate Alumnae an
the Southern Association Of Colleg
Women. At that time it joined tn
international Federation of Univer
sity Women which organization is des
tined to help in the solution Of som
of our vexing international problems
Miss Jessie Donaldson of the Mon
tana State College faculty, was
delegate to the last ~Internations
Convention held in Christiana, MOI
way, last summer.
Organization
Is Large
The A. A. u. ". has a membershi
Of 2O,531 with 249 local branches, or
having been organized in Bozema
last year. Other Montana branchs
are located in Missoula. Helena, Gres
Falls, Billings and Red Lodge. III
branches are free to decide upon the
own program Of work, the Bozems