The school for executives

Abstract

Chance remarks sometimes produce important results. I am sure that President Charles W. Hunt, of State Teachers College, Oneonta, New York, had no thought of altering an established program when he referred to the annual meetings of the American Association of Teachers Colleges 'as Schools for But this statement, made in 1941, so kindled the imagination of those who heard it that the decision was made to expand the program of the Association until it would become, in reality, a for Executives. The proposal came up for discussion at the 1942 meeting of the Association in San Francisco, and a decision was reached to attempt a two weeks' meeting of the presidents of the state teachers colleges during the summer of that year. The meeting was held at Big Clear Lake in Michigan during the latter part of June, 1942. The Teacher Education Commission of the American Council on Education helped to meet the overhead cost of holding the first meeting. Approximately one hundred and fifty teachers college presidents and visiting consultants attended this first session of the School for This number was both significant and gratifying. The second meeting was held at Jackson's Mill in West Virginia. The attendance was larger as the idea gained popularity. The third gathering of this group took place at Lake Chatauqua, New York, in 1946, and the recent meeting at Estes Park was the fourth.