March 15, 1963
GOOD OPPORTUNi
ASSOCIATE DEGRE
University Park, Pa., Feb. 7
The great demand for two-year
associate degree graduates of the
Pennsylvania State University has
increased markedly and early indi
cations are that June graduates in
these programs aill have no
difficulty finding jobs.
They are also expected to find
starting salaries very attractive.
A survey conducted by the Uni
versity among its 14 Common
wealth campuses reveals that 62
per cent of the 442 graduates who
received degrees last summer are
in positions paying $4OO or more
per month or better salary.
And while nearly half of the
graduates accepted jobs in Penn
sylvania, the remainder were
sought out arid employed by com
panies in 16 states and Washing
ton, D. C.—including states as far
away as California, New Mexico,
Texas and Florida.
While the medium starting sal
ary; was $4ll per month, associate
degree graduates reported a start
ing : salary of $6OO or more and the
top: salary reported was $625 per
month.
Penn State pioneered the two
year associate degree programs to
meet the needs of industry for
young men and women with tech-
Mother-Daughter
Tea Held at SUB
Theta Sigma Pi Sorority of the
Hazleton Campus, Pennsylvania
State University, held their an
nual Mother-Daughter tea, Febru
ary 24 in the Lounge. President
Kay Yencho announced the follow
ing committees for the tea during
the regular sorority meeting:
Refreshments Betsy Moore,
Mary Beth Martin, Essie Nemeth,
Carole Yurkovic, Geneva Avillion,
Joan lacurci.
Entertainment Donna Foster,
Diane Getz, June Fiel.
Decorations Paulette Linden
muth, Kay Yencho, Carolyn
Egger, Joanne Pretti, Marie Mel
chior ee.
Flowers Stephanie Simasek,
Pat Holshue.
Invitations Darilyn Clark,
Guests at the tea were mothers
of sorority members, wives of fac
ulty members, members of the
PSU Hazleton Campus Women’s
Auxiliary, and women of the PSU
Campus.
During the last meeting prelim
inary plans also were made for the
May Ball to be held May 25.
HIGHACRES COLLEGIAN
TIES FOR
E STUDENTS
nical training to serve as engi
neering supporting personnel. The
two-year programs are offered at
Penn State’s campuses at Allen
town, Altoona, Erie Dußois, Mc-
Keesport, Mont Alto, New Ken
sington, Ogo n t z ( Abington),
Pottsville, Scranton, Wilkes-Barre,
Wyomissing, and York, as well as
Highacres.
Six companies employed a bulk
of the recent associate degree
graduates. They are International
Business Machines, Radio Corpo
ration of America, Bell Telephone
Laboratories, General Electric,
Boeing Aircraft, and DuPont.
The majority of students in the
associate degree programs at the
Commonwealth campuses are en
rolled in the technical courses in
the field of engineering. These in
clude drafting and design technol
ogy, electrical and electronics
technology, production technology
and surveying technology.
There are also programs in
chemical technology and a new
program in forest technology
planned for the Mont Alto campus
in September. Two curricula, of
fered on the University Park
Campus agriculture and hotel
food service also lead to the
associate degree.
SIX STUDENTS
TRANSFERRING
Six sophomore students will be
transferring to the Main Campus
at the end of the term. They are:
James Salvaggio, Chemistry ma
jor; Bob Haas, Business Adminis
tration; JoAnne Pretti, Business
Education; John Tarone, Pre
dental major; James Yaccino, Di
vision of Counseling; and George
Kashuta, Liberal Arts.
As a result, two positions in Stu
dent Government will be left va
cant. Elections to fill the positions
of Treasurer and Council Member
will be held the second week of the
Spring Term, Another ten Council
seats will also be filled after this
election. They are for the positions
of President, Vice-President, and
eight Council Members. Anyone
desiring to run should contact
Larry Lash.
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EVALUATIONS SHOW RESULTS
With almost half of the evalu
ation program complete, it is clear
that many departments of the
University are endowed with the
resources required to meet the re
sponsibilities imposed by the su
perior students now entering the
University.
However, results of the program
indicate that some departments
will require major overhauling if
the University is to meet the chal
lenge for greatness that lies im
mediately ahead.
The evaluation program has re
vealed itself to be a powerful
mechanism for speeding up the
modernization of a department.
The internal evaluation program
has been as valuable as the out
side evaluations by instilling a
conscious drive for improvement
and an awareness of the need for
continuing self-analysis. For their
part the evaluations by the visit
ing teams have given the Univer
sity the benefit of counsel by many
distinguished scholars, drawn in
large part from universities whose
mission is similar to Penn State’s.
As a group, the evaluators have
been friendly, sympathetic and
honest in their appraisals. They
are leaving behind a set of recom
mendations which, when carried
out will the University a quantum
jump in quality.
Some generations are beginning
to stand out as the evaluation re
ports come in. Some of the depart
ments which are asking for more
help from the University have had
their cases strongly fortified by
the evaluation committees.
The evaluating committees have
said Penn State salary structure
is too low to be competitive with
the best American universities. An
average 50 per cent increase in
faculty salaries in the last five
years has not entirely closed the
gap. With this knowledge, the
University has added strength as
it seeks additional funds from the
Legislature and from several other
sources.
One interesting result of the
evaluations made so far is that the
humanities have fared better in the
nological departments for which
reports than the scientific and tech-
Penn State is best known. This is
difficult to understand in view of
the much greater research support
available to these departments.
There is a tmptation to say that
preoccupation with research grant
now available in science and tech
nology may be subverting the
whole teaching function. This view
has found no supporters among the
memebers of the evaluation com
mittees. Two departments were
taken totask sharply for their lack
of aggressiveness in seeking re
search support. One committee re
ported that any mature science
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professor who does not have out
side research support of at least
$30,000 annually either is (1) not
accepting his responsibilities or
(2) not abreast of his field.
Several departments were highly
commended in reports from the
evaluators. These include land
scape architecture, nuclear engi
neering, speech and Slavic
languages. For even these depart
ments , there were many sugges
tions for improvement.
Languages at the University
were evaluated as a group by five
scholars from Northwestern, Mich
igan, Johns Hopkins, Pennsylvania,
and Georgetown universities., This
report was replete with mentions
of dedicated service and outstand
ing performance in the face of
very heavy teaching loads. In
overall analysis, it was clear the
committee felt that Penn State has
the basic personnel and the stu
dent resources to become a dis
tinguished center for study in
language.
The committee evaluating nu
clear engineering commended the
department in warm terms and
strongly recommended that it
move immediately into a doctoral
program in nuclear engineering.
This has since been done.
The committee which evaluated
landscape architecture included
one member who serves also an
the accreditation committee of the
American Society of Landscape
Architects. The full committee, on
study of the evaluation report, de
cided to accredit the department
through 1967 without further ex
amination.
In contrast to these generally
favorable reports, one depart
mental curriculum was termed
“archaic” by the evaluators. An
other was criticized for poor teach
ing of courses that should not have
been offered in the first place,
since the course material was
properly offered by another de
partment.
The schedule for evaluations
includes:
April 8,9, 10 Department of
Accounting for Business Statistics.
, April 8,9, 10 Department of
Economics, Department of Mineral
Economics, work in Economics of
fered by the Department of Ag
ricultural Economics and Rural
Sociology.
April 8,9, 10—Bureau of Busi
ness Research.
April 29, 30, May I—Division of
Animal Science and Industry, An
imal Industry and Nutrition, Dairy
Science, Poultry Science, Veteri
nary Science.
May 13, 14, 15—Department of
Art and the Department of Art
Education (including Home Art in
the Department of Home Manage
ment, Housing, and Home Art).