Courses in Higher Education

Abstract

C OLLEGE and university administrators and faculty members seeking opportunities for in-service professional improvement during the long summer vacation, as well as advanced students preparing for college teaching and administration, will this year find a wide range of offerings in the summer sessions of a number of institutions in all parts of the country except the South. Although several universities which formerly gave summer courses in this field have either discontinued this work or have materially modified their programs during recent years, no less than twenty-five institutions have announced professional courses on various aspects of higher education to be given this summer.' Included in the group are: Columbia, Harvard, Indinna. New York. Northwpsi-rn Ohio State, Purdue, Stanford; West Virginia, Akron, California, Chicago, Colorado, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, Oregon, Southern California, Texas, Washington, and Wisconsin; the Oregon State College, and the Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. While the offerings at most of these institutions are limited to a single course or two, usually on the general subject of higher education-occasionally limited to the junior-college level-or on a selected phase of the field, more comprehensive programs are to be found at Chicago, Columbia, Ohio State, and Stanford. Basic or general courses on the history, organization, and administration of the American college and university, as well as courses dealing with specific problems of instruction and the professional duties of the various administrative officers, particularly those concerned with guidance and student1 Educating the Educators, Opportunities, Summer Offerings in Higher Education, JOURNAL OF HIGHER EDUCATION, 1, pp. 334-38; II, pp.33I-36;III,pp. 309-I4, (June, I930, I93I, I932).