isua-alumniassociation-directory-1930-010

Description:	THE ALUMNI DIRECTORYTHE PRESENT STATUS OF THE INDIANA STATETEACHERS COLLEGEThe status of any educational institution is revealed in at leasttwo ways, first, in the number of its graduates who have achievedsuccess in the various lines of work which they have undertaken, andsecond, in the recognition which the institution receives as a result ofthe achievement of its alumni and its own internal developments.In both of these respects the Indiana State Teachers College hasa record of which it is justly proud. The pages of this Directoryreveal the achievement of the alumni of the college. Millions of boysand girls have sat at the feet of teachers trained in this institution,and the success of these boys and girls in all the walks of life is aglorious record of the achievement of the graduates of this college.Within the last few years recognition of the achievements of thecolleg has been manifested in several other ways, all of which are buta culmination of the achievement of the alumni and the efforts ofthe institution to meet the demands of a progressive social order.In 1923 the General Assembly of the State of Indiana establisheda new teacher-training code and provided that the certification ofteachers in Indiana should be based upon training in approved teacher-training institutions. The method of the approving of these institutionswas delegated to the State Board of Education. The Indiana StateTeachers College was recognized by the State Board of Education asan institution for the training of all the classifications of teachersprovided by the new law.In September, 1927, Howard J. McGinnis published an article inthe Peabody Journal of Education entitled Outstanding State TeachersColleges. He selected a group of competent judges and asked them toindicate the twenty teachers colleges which in their opinion rankedamong the outstanding state teachers colleges. The Indiana StateTeachers College was among the first twelve of these institutions.In discussing the results of his findings Mr. McGinnis states thatan outstanding teachers college is probably one that may be describedas follows:1. A school with a well-known, well-trained, experienced and aggressive president.2. Or a school that has had recently an ablepresident, of the above sort, who in his time developedthe school to a high degree of efficiency in the trainingof teachers.3. Or a school that is known for the thoroughnesswith which it supplies well-trained teachers to its legitimate field.4. Or a school that has been constantly agressive indeveloping its plant, its curriculum, its faculty, and itsstudents through the coordination of all the forces thatshould be concentrated on that important task.In 1929 the General Assembly of the State of Indiana recognizedthe growing functions of the college and authorized the changingof its name from the Indiana State Normal School to the IndianaState Teachers College.
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Collection:	Indiana State University Archives

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