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Summer~ 1960
BLOOMSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA

Doctor Andruss Speaks
Speaking before the Annual
Alumni Meeting of Bloomsburg
State College, President Harvey A.
Andruss predicted that these institutions are on the verge of the
greatest expansion in their histories.
Quoting a recent study made by
a special features writer for the
Harrisburg Patriot, Doctor Andruss pointed out that in the last
decade the colleges of Pennsylvania had increased their enrollment about 25 percent, whereas
Pennsylvania State University had
increased its enrollment 43 percent, and the State Colleges had
increased their enrollment 62 percent.
This is evidenced by the fact
that the State will have to provide
more opportunities for the oncoming generation of American youth
to attend colleges and universities.
Since the expansion of private
institutions is limited by gifts from
Alumni and Foundations, and income from endowments, it can be
expected that these high cost institutions will be able to. expand
only at one-third to one-half the
rate that it will be necessary for
the public institutions to expand in
order · to meet even a part of the
In fact, the Harrisburg
need.
Special Features Writer titled his
articles "Educational Stalemate."
There are many cross currents in
our operation. For instance, a prediction of the Department of Public Instruction, that the demand for
public school teachers will fall off

in 1965, 1966, 1967 and thereafter,
on account of a lessening school
enrollment, is accompanied by the
same figures showing that college
enrollments will increase from
15,000 to 25,000. It must be recognized that in State Colleges,
whose primary objective is that of
educating teachers, public school
experience is a requisite or requirement for employment, and that at
a time when enrollments are increased at the rate of 15,000 to 25,000 a year in college, undoubtedly
college administrations will: dip
down into the public schools fpr
teaching personnel. This in itself
will mean that more public school
teachers will have to be trained,
and that the figures, which show
that the demand for the State falls
below the average of 6,000, will undoubtedly be increased if colleges
dip down into the public schools
for their instructional staff. In
fact, if we count fifteen or twenty college students to one college
teacher, there will be an accelerated need for college teachers after
1964 ranging from 1,000 to 1,200
new additional college teachers
each year.
Another problem is a comparison of the salaries paid in colleges
with those paid in public schools.
Just recently, in fact in a May,
1960, issue of the NEA Research
BuHetin, the leading article is titled "Does It Pay to Teach in College?" ,and this is a direct quotation from the National Study.
"Elementary and Secondary

To Alumni
School Teachers caught between
rising living costs and diminishing
tax resources to support the public
schools are being joined in a similar band by a growing number of
teachers in universities, colleges
and junior .coHeges."
"A report released by the NEA
Research Bulletin last June showed that most institutions of higher
education are being forced year hy
year to employ a growing percent
of their new teachers with inadequate preparation."
"Now a nation-wide NEA Research Divisional Study presents a
comprehensive picture of the salary structure of higher education.
Despite numerous encouraging
spots, the general overview casts
doubt on whether the present quality ,,of instruction can be maintaind
e .

This means in effect, and it is
true even here at Bloomsburg, that
we are hiring new faculty members
with less experience than we have
done in all the years that the institution has been a college; in
some cases they do not have public
school experience.
Our saJ.aries, while they still enable us to attract some people, are
not up to Jhe national average.
Pennsylvania faces many problems
which are being reviewed now by
the Governor's Committee on Education before which I have the opportunity to appear on Teacher
Education. This opportunity wiH
be afforded me on June 3, 1960,
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BLOOMSBURG APPROVED FOR GRADUATE STUDY;
DR. MARTIN NAMED DIRECTOR
The Bloomsburg State College
has been given approval by the
Pennsylvania State Council of Education to grant the degree of Master of Education in the Elementary and Business fields, beginning
in the summer of 1961.
Dr. Thomas B. Martin has been
appointed Director of Graduate
Studies and Business Education for
the college year beginning June 1,
1960, and will be responsible for
developing policies, plans, curriculums, schedules, and instructional personnel for this new phase of
college education.
Pursuant to this new expansion,
a reference librarian will be added
to the present four-member staff
when the Fall Semester begins in
September, 1960, and additional
expenditures will be made to increase the library holdings. Recently, the first payment on a contract, existing between Blooms-

SPEAKS TO ALUMNI
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when a brief or paper will be presented to Task Force No. 4 on
Teacher Education.
Actually, the problem in higher
education, very simply stated, is
this: Colleges have passed through
or are passing through certain
stages. First, colleges were founded by churches to train young people to go into the ministry. At a
later date it was found that what
was good for the shepherd was
good for the flock and that some
people have sold themselves on the
idea that a college education pays
off in increased earning power.
This idea has continued, particularly with the development of professiona,l schools, other than ministry, such as law, medicine, etc.
But we have now arrived at a situation where we realize that higher education is a part of national
policy, a part of national defense,
a part of the national effort. The
comparisons that people try to
make between Russian and American Education are rather futile.
Russia has a national system of education, whereas America has fifty
State S3/stems. These State systems
are not coordinated. Some are bet-

burg State College and the
Bloomsburg Public Library, was
made to compensate in part for the
service rendered by the local library to college students.
In September, 1959, thirty-seven
faculty members with the rank of
Professor or Associate Professor
were available for assignment to
teach graduate courses. Of this
number, 19 held the Doctor's degree and 16 held the Master's degree. With the expansion of the
faculty from 83 to 105, it is expected that the number of advanced
degree holders will be greatly increased. At the time the college
was re-accredited by the Middle
States Association in February,
1960, 23 of the 84 members of the
faculty held an earned Doctor's degree; a graduate staff of 38 was
then available.
Approval to grant the Master's
degree comes to an institution
ter than others. Some have teachers who have four or more years of
preparation, or at least 90 percent
of them have. Pennsylvania has
30 percent of its teachers with less
than four years of preparation.
Some pay most of their way, others
depend on the Federal Government.
The crying need at this time is
to recognize that schools must be
equated on a national basis. If this
means Federal support and a degree of Federal control, we are going to have it, whether we like it
or not.
There are many foolish, wasteful
things done in the name of local
control, and we will never be able
to compete with Russia or any other Imperialistic Nation, either now
or in the future, unless we bring
our schools under some form of
National control. This doesn't mean
of course that the State would give
up all its rights nor the local districts, but we are living in ,an age
when we must have unity, and I
hope we can have it without uniformity. For instance, there are
eighty colleges in Pennsylvania
who grant degrees, Bachelor's and
above. Of those, about seventytwo are authorized to train teachPage Two

DR. THOMAS B. MARTIN

which, for more than 90 years, has
trained teachers for the elementary
schools. Normal school graduates,
as long ago as 1870, signed a document indicating their intention to
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ers. This is the highest percentage
of the total number of colleges in
the Union who are authorized to
train teachers. Now, ten or more
of them graduate ten or less teachers a year. Therefore, they are not
all using their authority; Eight of
these colleges, that are authorized
to grant degrees and to train teachers for the State Council of Education, are not members of the regional accrediting association, and
only 18 of the 70 odd are recognized by the National Council on Accreditation of Teacher Education.
They are the 14 State Colleges and
the four large universities - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania State, Temple
and University of Pennsylvania.
It is time that our Department
of Public Instruction and State
Council of Education require all
colleges in Pennsylvania, who educate teachers, to become members
of a National Accrediting Association within a stated period of
years. Unless we do this, American education can never be coordinated and can never be brought
up to a general level or at least a
minimum level, which is so necessary to the national life, the national safety. the national defense,
and in fact the national existence.

Will· Bloomsburg Be Bigger And Better?
YOU CAN HELP ANSWER THIS QUESTION IN THE AFFIRMATIVE!
DP~ogram afdohptedThbey TthhrBee-Podintf
e oar o , irectors o t e
Alumni Association, as reported on
Page 1 of the April, 1960, issue of
the Alumni'·' Quarterly, was built

GRADUATE STUDY
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teach in the public schools of
Pennsylvania, and the State then
paid 50 cents a week to defray the
expenses of tuition and boarding.
-Business teachers have been educated at Bloomsburg for 30 years,
since the Department of Commerce was begun by President
Harvey A. Andruss in 1930.
Bloomsburg begins a new phase
of the education of those who ate
entering the teaching profession.
Five years of pre-service education
is recognized in part by the new
P1mnsylvania certification regulations which require 12 semester
hours of work for making a college
certificate permanent, and by the
mandatory salary schedule which
recognizes the holder of a Master's
degree by requiring salary increments of $400 in excess of those
who hold the Bachelor's degree.
During the past two and a half
years, a faculty committee, headed
by Mr. Clayton Hinkel, has made
a continuing study to determine
the number of people who are interested in taking courses leading
to the granting of a Master's degree at Bloomsburg, Replies were
received from 142.0 of the total
number contacted, and 1,020 persons indicated a desire to take
graduate courses. There were 243
requests for graduate study in
Elementary Education, 309 in
Business Education, 374 in Secondary Education, and 98 in Special
Education. The approval, given
iBloomsburg by the State Council
of Education, means that a graduate program may now be offered
to the 552 prospective graduate
students interested in Elementary
and Business Education.
Additional surveys will now be
made, and careful planning will
precede the ·offering of courses
leading to the degree of Master of
Education at.· Bloomsburg State
College.
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around three goals: (1) 1,000 addirw~a l. memb e~s Of t h e Alumm· Associahon, paymg dues at the rate
of $3 for one year, $7.50 for three
years, ~10 for five y~ars, and $35
for .a life m~mbership; (2) contribut10ns totalmg $1,400 to cover
'Bloomsburg's share in the Council
of Alumni Associations of , the
Pennsylvania State Colleges; (3) a
contribution of $3,500 for books for
the college library.
To what extent have these goals
been reached?
.
(1) The membership of the
Alumni Association in recent years
has been around 1,200, and the respouse to the call for 1,000 additional members has been encouraging. At present, the membership
probably exceeds l;EOO. It must
be kept in mind however that in
1950, there .we;e 1,600 ~embers
when the total list of o-raduates
was 2,500 less than at th~ present
time. H 7,500 graduates of B.S.C.
become members of the Alumni
Association, you will have the
strongest alumni group in the
state.
(2) The response to the two other goals has not been encouraging.
The project, to cover Bloomsburg's
share in the Council of Alumni As-'
socations in Pennsylvania to an ex-•
tent of $1,400, has been disheartening indeed. This may be due in
part, to the fact that Paul co:Uly
French, the Public Relations Representative of Pennsylvania State
Colleges, has recently passed away
and his successor has not yet been
appointed to carry on the work he
began. In the meantime we must
remember that this is a legislative
year, that the budgets of the State
Colleges for the biennium of 186163 will be considered, and that we
need all the' help we can get to
convince the Legislators and Governor that additional funds are
needed so that children from £amilies of limited economic means
can have a higher education. No
amount of scholarship or loan
money can offset limited appropriations. Without adequate appropriations for more classrooms,
dormitories, and faculty;. we. cariPage Three

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not accommodate the increasing
number of students who can· find
the means to finance the cost of
their college education.
(3) The response to the appeal
for $3,500 for books for the Col.
.
lege Library has been somewhat
more hearteni,pg than for the Publie Relations project, but not more
than 1/10 of this amount has been
contributed to date.
The inauguration and continuance of graduate studies at
Bl_oo~sburg in the summer of 1960,
will, m a large measure, depend
upon the ability of the college to
augment library holdings as well
as as to increase the library staff.
In fact, th~ library payroll will
need to be mcreased to $50,000 a
year by the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, and the amount'
spent tor books and perodicals will
certainly need to be half this total.
If additiimal areas of graduate ed-.
ucation are to be approved, such,
as English and Social Studies in
the Secondary field and Special
Education for teachers of the mentally retarded and speech handicapped, continued sl1;pport will be
n~eded from alumm and graduatmg classes for the purchase of library . books. The Class of 1960
estabhs?ed a worthy precedent by
presentmg a check for $1,000 to
~he ~resident of the College to aid
m this great work.
Are you interested in helping
Bloomsburg to become bigger and
better in its curriculum offerings,
in its service to the schools of
Pennsylvania, and in widening its
contributions to include the citizens of Pennsylvania, not only in
schools, but in all phases of social,
economic, and spiritual life? Your
support for this overall program
will be appreciated, particularly
your contributions for the Council
of Alumni Associations for Public
Rela.tions representation and for
books for the library.
Your contributions should be
sent directly to Mr. Earl Gehrig
Treasurer, Bloomsburg State Col:
lege Alumni Association, Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania.

Construction Dates For New Buildings Outlined By President
Andruss; To· Accommodate 3,000 Students By 1967
At Cost Of Ten Million Dollars
When the Legislature of Pennsylvania convenes in January, 1961,
requests will be considered for
new buildings to be constructed
on campuses of the fourteen state
colleges.
During the last decade, the private art colleges have increased 25
per cent in enrollment, Pennsylvania State University 53 per cent,
while the State (Teachers) Colleges have 63 per cent more students than in 1950. It is evident
that continued increases in the enrollment of college students will be
met largely, in the future, by stateowned and state-supported institutions of higher education.
Constant planning for future
construction must continue. The
Department of Public Instruction,
represented by Dr. Harold Alderfer, is briniing together members
of a committee, designated by the
Governor's Office of Administration, the State Planning Board, and
the Budget Secretary to meet with
the President and representatives
of each State College.
Such a meeting was held in Harrisburg on June 24 with President
Harvey A. Andruss, :Mr. .Paul Martin, Business Manager, and Mr.
Thomas Correy, Superintendent of
Buildings and Grounds, representing the Bloomsburg State College. Requests for new construction, land purchases, and extension of campus utilities were made
for the next three bienniums (19611967). Agreement was reached on
the name, number, and estimated
costs of new buildings to replace
outworn structures and to expand
the size of the present college, and
also the &der in which construction is to proceed.
A two-year period for construction would make the first of these
buildings available for use not
earlier than September, 1963.
Meantime, the present Bloomsburg
campus plan must be re-studi11d
and revised in terms of either 3,000
students on one campus, 3,000 and
1,000 on two campuses, or 3,000
and 2,000 on two campuses. These
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alternatives must be· considered if
a four-year teachers college and
graduate school for teachers continues on the present campus and
either a two or four-year general
college is located on the proposed
Country Club site.
First Biennium
During the 1961-63 biennium;
the first buliding on the list is an
auditorium to seat 2,000. Authorized by the Legislature five years
ago, the capacity was then fixed at
1,200. However, funds were not
available after the construction of
the Sutliff Classroom Building
and (New) North Hall - a dormitory for 200 men. Classroom buildings may be built in greater numbers as well as dormitories, but
library expansion through construction of wings is difficult. Increasing the size of an auditorium
is impossible because of fixed location of the stage, acoustics, and
other factors such as visibility, ventilation, and heating.
To have built an auditorium, at
a time when enrollment was doubled and was on its way to being
tripled, would have resulted in
having an auditorium of limited
capacity which would have been
outgrown before it was completed.
The 1961-63 lists of requests for
new buildings, headed by the auditorium as number one on the
priority list, follows:
(1) Auditorium - two stories (to
provide first floor and balcony),
(2,000 seats), to be 200 ft. x 100 ft.,
located at the end of Spruce Street,
costing $1,631,000.
(2) Athletic Field - to be developed in area between Chestnut
Street Extension and Light Street
Road including the· farm land
around the President's house, and
consisting of Football and Baseball
fields, Track, Tennis courts, and
Playing Fields, costing $320,000.
(3) Field house - 200,000 square
feet, two stories high, to be located
on Chestnut Street Extension to
provide fHJlities similar to those
now piOvicled in the Centennial
Gymnasium, ~xcept swimming
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pool, costing $1,400,000.
.
(4) Classroom Building No. 2 to cost $800,000, matching Sutliff
Hall, being located between
Spruce Street and the Centennial
Gymnasium. Additional land may
need to be purchased in the areas
of Spruce Street across from the
Benjamin Franklin Laboratory
School and along Second Street.
(5) Dormitory No. 2 - for 250
men, which is also being requested
from funds already appropriated,
to be located between present New
North Hall and the College Commons, to occupy the site of present
Old North Hall and to be known
as South Hall, to cost $1,000,000.
(6) Maintenance Building - to
be constructed in line with the
Laundry and present maintenanee
building, to cost $160,000.
These buildings are necessary if
enrollment increases are projected
as follows: 1960-61 - 1,700 students; 1961-62 - 1,800 students
with present dormitories; 2,450 expected in 1962-63 if two women's
dormitories (500) and one men's
dormitroy (250) are constructed
and ready for occupancy in September, 1962.
Second Biennium
For the two-year period, 19636"5, buildings are arranged in a
p.eferential order as follows:
(7) Men's Dormitory No. 3 - for
2f0 men to cost $1,000,000 and to
be located on the present site of
Science Hall.
(8) Library (with possible fµture
expansion by adding wings) costing $1,000,000, to seat 500 student readers (future capacity 750
students), and to shelve 100,000
volumes (with expansion of two
wings to accommodate 200,000
volumes), located on present athletic field facing on Spruce Street
toward the Town of Bloomsburg.
(9) Dining Hall and Kitchen to cost $600,000, to be located on
present site of Waller Hall.
(10) Classroom Building No. 3 .;....
to be located on Second Street or
on the present Athletic Field par(Continued on Page 5)

CONSTRUCTION DATES

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allel to Light Street Road, costing
$800,000.
These four buildings, if ready
for occupancy by September, 1965,
will provide for an enrollment of
3,000 students on the present campus. Of this number, five-hundred
men will continue to live in town,
seven-hundred men in college
dorms on campus, and twelve-hundred women on campus, if a portion of Waller Hall continues to
be used. A third Women's Dormitory is deferred until the 1965-67
biennium.
However, it is apparent that an
enrollment of 3,000 teacher education students, divided into 1,600
men and 1,400 women, will, if
present ratios prevail, consist of
2,400 dormitory students (of which
500 may live in the Town of
Bloomsburg) and 600 day students,
driving daily to the campus from
their homes.
Dormitory requirements are
about equal - 1,200 for men and
1,200 for women. This means:
four dormitories for men (950 capacity), two near the College Commons and two on the Science Hall
site; four dormtories for women (1,000 capacity), two on the Wood
Street site and two on the present
site of Waller Hall; at least two
Dining Room. as separate buildings, and possibly a third in a
dormitory, will be needed.
This leaves 250 men and 200
women to be housed off campus,
either in towns where they are doing student teaching or in Bloomsburg if they are undergraduate
men.
These are the plans presented
by President Harvey A. Andruss
for the Bloomsburg State College,
for the six-year period beginning
in 1961 and ending in 1967, with
the approval of the Department of
Public Instruction for the consideration of the Governor of the
Commonwealth. The Capital Outlay Budget will be recommendedby Governor Lawrence to the Legislature when it convenes in January, 1961, so that the General State
Authority may issue bonds for the
construction of buildings. These
proposals will amount to $10,000,000; $3,000,000 of this amount will
be used to build dormitories which
will be self-liquidating out of fees

SUTLIFF HALL
Occupied for the first time in April, 1960, this new classroom building
has six modern science laboratories on the first floor and eight specialized
rooms and offices on the second floor providing new quarters for the Division of Business Education.

MORE THAN 1,700 STUDENTS ENROLLED AT B.S.C. DURING
1959-1960; INCREASE EXPECTED IN SEPTEMBER, 1960
The comprehensively yearly en- the counties adjacent to Columbia,
rollment report of Bloomsburg formerly known as the service area
State College for the period be- of Bloomsburg. Luzerne and Colginning June 1, 1Q59, and ending umbia Counties contribute over
May 31, 1960, has been filed with 300 students while Northumberthe Department of Public Instruc- land has 240.' Along with Montour,
tion, and shows a total yearly en- these counties produced enrollrollment of almost 1,700 students. ments of 950 of the total 1,694 stuOf this total, full-time students dents which includes 19 part-time
number 1,675 from forty-six coun- stude~ts. An additional twelve
ties in Pennsylvania. The larger counties sent 20 or more students
part of the enrollment comes from to Bloomsburg last year, as follows: Lackawanna, 57; Montgomery, 43; Bucks, 35; Dauphin, 34;
paid by students.
Development of the Country Carbon, 27; Philadelphia, 27;
Club Campus awaits the purchase Berks, 26; Delaware, 26; Bradford,
of 47 acres of land, including two 24; Northampton, 24; Snyder, 24;
buildings, and the development of Susquehanna, 22.
An examination of the enrolla plan for a second campus for a
junior college to enroll 1,000 stu- ment in the various divisions
dents or a four-year college to ac- shows that the largest division is
that of Secondary Education,
commodate twice that number.
It is evident that any plans for which numbers more than 700
the future development of the students, while Business Education
Bloomsburg State College must be has 442 students and Elementary
reviewed every five years and re- Education, 487. There are 44 in
visions made in terms of legislative the field of Special Education,
actions every two years. A plan which of course is one of the newcannot be carried out if the tax er curriculums offered at Bloomsincome of the Commonwealth will burg State College.
The previous preponderance of
not sustain these expenditures. All
depends on the value Pennsylvania male students is gradually being
citizens place on college and uni- whittled away. Although there
versity edu~atioi'l in the future were 600 men and 300 women aft(Oontinued on Page 6)
decade.
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Proposals For Junior College At Bloomsburg; President Andruss
Outlines Plans For Campus, Buildings And Curriculum
Since Sputnik streaked across
the sky in 1957, Russian education
has been subjected to scrutiny by
all those interested in the future
of Western Civilization.
Comparisons have been made
of fifty American state systems of
egucation and the national system
~! Russia. Missiles are not the
product of either of these present
systems of education.
In spite of endless charge and
countercharges, claims and counterclaims, there is an unusual
agreement in relations to the junior
(two year) college as the next step
needed to meet the flood of future
Freshmen in America who want
to go to institutions of higher
learning.
Without trying to explain differences in two-year institutions, such
as community colleges, technical
institutions or junior colleges, it is
evident that Pennsylvania must
provide more college opportunities for its youth. Whether junior
colleges are to be two years (thirteenth and fourteenth grades) superimposed on existing secondary
schools, off-campus or extension
branches of existing colleges or
universities, new institutions loca-

1;700 STUDENTS ENROLLED
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er World War II when the G.I.'s
were on campus and the total enrollment was 900, there are now
912 men; this is hardly 55% of the
total. In fact, this year, there were
only 49 more men than women,
but this number may increase proportionately when the new men's
dormitory for 200 students is used
in September, 1960; it will mean
also that the total enrollment will
probably be 130 more than last
year, and since there is no dormitory space and men are housed in
_the Town of Bloomsburg, the increase will probably be in that
vicinity.
With an expected enrollment of
1,700 to 1,750 there will probably
be 1,000 men and 700 to 750 women when the first semester begins in September, 1960, according
to President Harvey A. Andruss.

ted near or in centers of population, or any other arrangement yet
to be devised, consideration is being -given to expanding the offerings of the fourteen state colleges
to include two years of general education leading to the AsJociate of
Arts or Science degree.
This
means that junior college opportunities would be available to all
Pennsylvania youth within two
hours driving time from their
homes.
In sketching the plans made to
provide a junior college at Bloomsburg, the first step is to acquire
additional land so as to increase
the size of the campus. Some advantages are expected if the new
campus is self-contained so as to
have its own distinct character, yet
close enough to the main campus
to use certain facilities such as libraries, auditoria and gymnasia,
athletic fields, and to some extent,
science laboratories.
The
proposed
Bloomsburg
Country Club site would add 47
acres to the present campus of 60
acres. Thirty years ago, the Commonwealth paid $75,000 for 18.5
acres of land located between
Spruce Street, Second Street and
Light Street Road. The Board of
Trustees has authorized the Department of Public Instruction to
recommend the purchase of the 47
acres of land and two buildings
(club and locker house) for an
amount not to exceed $100,000, as
a location for a junior college.
When the 1957 campus plan of
the Bloomsburg State College i,
revised to increase the student capacity from 2,000 to 3,000 or 4,000,
requests will be made for a minimum number of buildings necessary to begin a junior college to
accommodate 1,000 students with
an eventual enrollment of 2,000 in

rnso.

If a junior college is to be opened on the Country Club Campus
in Septmeber, 1965, appropriations
must be made and architects appointed to plan for the following
buildings:
(1) Heating Plant and Utilities
(water, sewage, electricity, and
steam lines) - Building to house
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two 500 h.p. boilers, stokers, bunkers and coal-handling equipment
including smoke stacks, to cost
$944,000.
(2) Classroom and Laboratory
Building of at least 14 rooms with
a Library wing. When a separate
Library building is constructed,
costing $1,182,000, a Student Community Center could then occupy
the library wing.
(3) Field House of 50,000 square
feet, providing space for future
construction of a swimming pool,
and costing $986,000.
This junior college could be operated for 500 day students; another 500 could find living accommodations in the Town of Bloomsburg until dormitories and dining
halls can be constructed.
(4) Women's Dormitory to house
250 and a Dining Hall to seat 600,
to cost $1,377,850.
(5) Men's Dormitory to accommodate 250 men, to cost $904,000.
These dormitories are to be selfliquidating through fees paid by
students. This mfilans the state
will provide buildings costing approximately three million dollars
and students will pay for dormitories and dining hall costing over
two million dollars.
A faculty of at least fifty, with
an equal number of non-instructional employees and a payroll of
$500,000, will be necessary for the
first thousand students.
Three types of students will at·
tend such a junior college as follows:
(1) The first group will include
those who receive the Associate
Degree (A.A. or A.S.) and terminate their formal education. These
young people will become housewives or wage earners.
(2) The second group will go to
other colleges for their junior and
senior years to follow a wide variety of studies - pre-professional,
business education, journalism or
liberal arts, etc.
(3) The third group will be selected to remain at Bloomsburg;
transferring to the main campus to
become teachers for the public
schools of Pennsylvania. Com(Continued on Page 7)

JUNIOR COLLEGE AT B.S.C.
(Continued from Page 6)

pleting _the four-year curriculum at
Bloomsburg, they will be issued
a continuing but not a permanent
certificate.
A fifth year of teacher education
must be completed at Bloomsburg
(or some other state college) within a stated period of time (say seven or ten years) leading to the degree of Master of Education which
is the basis for the issuance of a
Pennsylvania Permanent Teaching
Certificate.
By admitting three times as
many Freshmen students (1,000 or
1;500) as are needed for teaching
positions, careful selection of those
who enter the public schools of
Pennsylvania .will be possible.

More young people can have an Education, and Speech are presopportunity for at least two years ently studied by Freshmen and
of a college education while living Sophomores. By substituting two
at home. Some young people can courses in foreign languanges for
have a four-year college education two other courses, one of which is
- two years while living at home Professional Orientation and may
and two while living on another be deleted, we have the beginning
college campus.
of a junior college curriculum
For more than a decade, almost which, as noted before, has been
half the material, as shown by the existing as basic education for
course titles in the curriculum for teachers for ten years or more.
educating teachers for the secon- · Bloomsburg State College is ready
dary or high schools, has been in to offer junior college (Freshman
general education or the liberal and Sophomore) courses as soon as
arts. Only one course in the first funds are provided for buildings
two years has treated education as and faculty.
a professional field or teaching as
These are the contributions
a process.
Pennsylvania State Colleges can
English (Compm;ition and Liter- make to Pennsylvania youth while
ture), Science (Biological and Phy- continuing, even more effectively,
sical), Social Studies (History and to educate teachers to meet the
Geography), Mathematics, Physical challenges of the future.

GOVERNOR'S COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION
JUNE 30, 1960
represented by HARVEY A. ANDRUSS

Representing the fourteen State sociation, and only eighteen of the
Colleges before the Governor's seventy are accredited by the NaCommittee on Education in Har- tional Association for Accreditment
risburg, President Harvey A. An- of Teacher Education. These indruss of Bloomsburg State College stitutions are the fourteen State
spoke to Task Force 4, Teacher Colleges and the four large uniEducation.
versities.
Doctor Andruss made certain
If higher education is a part of
proposals: first, those that would National policy and defense, then
require legislation; and second, institutions educating teachers
those that would require certain should meet the requirements for
administrative changes under pres- national accreditation and the
ent legislation.
Pennsylvania State Council of EdDr. Andruss pointed out that ucation should require every instihigher education has now become tution, training teachers in Penna matter of concern in the nation, sylvania, to meet the requirements
since many of the technological, within ten years.
Among the other suggestions
economic and administrative advantages are dependent upon the made by Dr. Andruss were the
best brains in the country, which following:
are now being educated in our
1. The present State Council of
colleges.
Education should have its memnine
Turning to teacher education bership increased from
and noting that Pennsylvania has a to twenty - one members; two
larger proportion of its total num- Councils within this body should
ber of colleges engaged in this be constituted, one with seven
field than any other state in the members for the Council on Eleunion, Dr. Andruss noted that out mentary and Secondary Education,
of the total of eighty odd colleges, and another with seven members
seventy have the authority to train for the Council on Higher Eduteachers; however, ten colleges and cation.
2. Legislation should be passed
universities train less than ten
teachers each year, which means to instruct the Governor to fill
that they have the authority but do within thirty or sixty days all vanot carry out the function. Fur- . cancies which occur on the boards
thermore, eight of this group are of trustees of State (Teachers) Colnot accredited by a Regional As- leges.
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3. The Presidents of State Colleges, on nominations of boards of
trustees, should receive their final
appointment from the State Superintendent of Public Instruction.
4. The present boundary lines
of the service areas, set up years
ago to provide for examinations
for Normal School Certificates,
should be wiped out through passage of a law to repeal this section.
Speaking about the relations of
State Colleges to certain Departments of State Government, with
the exception of the Department
of Public Instruction but dealing
more particularly with the Department of Property and Supplies,
there should be introduced again,
a bill that passed the Senate but
failed to pass the House last year.
This bill provided that one-half of
any funds, lapsed at the end of a
biennium, should be credited to
the next biennium. Dr. Andruss
urged passage of this legislation,
since one-half of the budgets of
the State Colleges are paid by students for instruction and housing,
and the amounts the students pay
for these specific purposes should
not be thrown into the general
treasury to balance off shortages
in other areas of State Government.
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GOVERNOR'S COMMITTEE
ON EDUCATION, JUNE 3, 1960
(Continued from Page 7)

Another piece of Legislation was
to have permitted State Collgees
to purchase goods and services up
to $500 and to have taken bids and
awarded contracts for repairs and
renovations not to exceed $12,000.
At the present time, this must have
prior approval by the Department
of Property and Supplies. The
present procedure is not only time
consuming, but in some cases it
means that the purchase can't be
completed by the time the goods
or services are needed.
Speaking of appropriations for
State Colleges, Dr. Andruss suggested that consideration be given
to a study, made by the Illinois
Chamber of Commerce, indicating
that the average cost of educating
a student was $823 per student for
instruction. This was made two
years ago. It is estimated, that if
the study were made now, the figure would reach $900. Pennsylvania has from all sources, both
State and student, about $700. It
was felt that the student fees
should not exceed twenty-five percent of the instructional costs. The
State should assume seventy-five
percent of the instructional cost
and also maintenance and operation of all buildings except dormitories, which should be self-liquidating and self-supporting.
If per capita enrolJment were
used as the basis for budgeting,
then an optimum or top enrollment
for appropriation purposes should
be fixed for each college. If the
college reached the enrollment,
the college would be paid a fixed
figure. If the institution went beyond the fixed figure, it would not
be subsidized on a per capita basis.
Some comments were made
about the present Teachers' Salary
Bill, the minimums of which Dr.
Andruss felt were too low. He
suggested that the present minimum salaries in the four ranks of
This "Letter to Graduates" is the
first in a series to be published in order that (1) all graduates may hear
from their alma mater from time to
time, (2) the college may repo!'t progress and request support, in conjunction with the Alumni Association, for
projects which the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania will not finance at the
time the need must be met.

Professor, Associate Professor, Assistant Professor, and Instructor,
be raised from $500 to $1,000 and
that ten increments be attached to
each rank above the rank of Instructor. The disparity between
college salaries and public school
salaries is a matter of some concern, since teacher education institutions require public school experience before employing college
· faculty members.
The most far reaching proposal
had to do with the future development of State Colleges. The next
step to be taken is to authorize the
State Colleges to offer two years
of Junior College work to Freshmen and Sophomores, who would
pay twenty-five percent of the cost
of their instruction. At the end of
two years, one group would receive the Degree of Associate in
Arts, or Associate in Science, another group would transfer to other colleges or universities and
there pursue Journalism, Business
Administration, Pre-Medical, PreLaw, Pre-Ministerial, or other PreProfessional courses, while a third
group would remain at the State
Colleges to become teachers.
Juniors and Seniors, enrolled in
State Colleges to become teachers,
would pay only a nominal fee of
$50 per year to cover health services, academic record keeping, and
~tudent welfare.· This would be
in keeping with the present law,
which requires the State to pay the
tuition of all students who promise
to teach in Pennsylvania. At the
present time students are paying
an average of $212 per year, which
is, in fact, a partial tuition fee.
At the end of four years, graduates of State Colleges would receive a continuing but not permanent certificate, which would
permit them to teach for a period
of seven or ten years. During this
period, they would be expected to
complete a fifth year of college
work leading to the Master's Degree.
If the State assumes a portion of
the burden of instructional costs
for this fifth year of work, then
students; graduating from State
Colleges, should be required to
complete the fifth year, or Masters

degree, over a seven year period.
However, if the State continues to
follow the policy of causing a _student to pay for the cost of his
instruction, the period for completing the Master's degree should
be ten years.
This means that Teach~rs Colleges should develop in two directions: horizontally, in that they
would offer 2 years to general college students and Teachers College students and vertically, in that
it would be necessary to have a
graduate school of education within fifty miles of every teacher in
Pennsylvania.
The development of State Colleges in the direction of offering
Bachelor's degrees on a four-year
basis, to student in Arts, Sciences,
Business Administration, Journalism and other fields, should be
launched only after a State-wide
study has been made to determine
the needs of youth and the demands for college preparation
which are not now being met by
existing institutions. After these
demands are determined, State
Colleges may undertake these responsibilities but this is a second
and subsequent step and should
not be attempted at this time, according to the best judgment of
the speaker.
At the present time, the students
of State Colleges are paying a larger proportion of the cost of their
instruction than is paid in the nation as a whole. On the average
in the nation, students have been
paying about eighteen percent
whereas those in Pennsylvania
have been paying twenty-four percent. To the extent that students
have to pay a large proportion of
the instructional costs, fewer and
fewer students will be able to go
to college.
Pennsylvania cannot continue to
deprive its youth of the opportunity for higher education in a time
when a college education is
considered as the key to many opportunities. It is felt that Statewide coordination of planning and
a general cooperative effort on the
part of all existing institutions are.
necessary to meet · this gigantic
challenge.

PRESIDENT
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