 | The University of Virginia record February 15, 1924 |  |
DIVISION OF EXTENSION.
OFFICERS OF ADMINISTRATION.
| Edwin Anderson Alderman, Ph.B., D.C.L., LL.D. | President |
| Charles Gilmore Maphis, Ped.D., LL.D. | Director |
| Elsie Maphis | Secretary |
FACULTY: 1923-24.
Bureau of Extension Teaching.
| WILLIAM MENTZEL FORREST, B.A. | John B. Cary Memorial Professor of Biblical History and Literature |
| JOHN LEVI MANAHAN, M.A., Ph.D. | Professor of Educational Administration |
| GEORGE OSCAR FERGUSON, JR., M.A., Ph.D. | Professor of Psychology and Education |
| WILLIAM ROYALL SMITHEY, M.A., Ph.D. | Professor of Secondary Education |
| ADELAIDE DOUGLAS SIMPSON, B.A., M.A. | Dean of Women |
| HERMAN PATRICK JOHNSON, M.A., Ph.M. | Associate Professor of English Literature |
| W. PATTON GRAHAM, M.A. | Associate Professor of Romanic Languages |
| TIPTON RAY SNAVELY, M.A., Ph.D. | Associate Professor of Economics |
| ABRAHAM BERGLUND, B.A., Ph.D. | Associate Professor of Commerce and Business Administration |
| ARMISTEAD CHURCHILL GORDON, JR., M.A., Ph.D. | Assistant Professor of English |
| WILLIAM SHIREY KEISTER, B.A., M.D. | Assistant Professor of Public Health |
| MARY LOUISE DINWIDDIE | Assistant Librarian |
| MARY ELIZABETH PIDGEON, B.A. | Instructor in Citizenship Education, Division of Extension |
| JOSEPHINE HOLT, B.A. | Supervisor of Romance Languages, Richmond City Schools, and Instructor in Spanish, Division of Extension |
| MAMIE E. ROHR, B.S., M.S. | Instructor in Education, Division of Extension |
The Division of Extension of the University of Virginia offers to the
people of Virginia its services as follows:
I. Division of Extension Teaching.
Extension Teaching courses are courses of instruction corresponding closely
and are under the administration, supervision and control of the University,
for the benefit of persons unable to attend the regular courses of instruction
and to take up work in residence. Each course represents a definite
amount of study corresponding to an equivalent amount of work done in residence
at the University, and when completed satisfactorily by persons meeting the
entrance requirements of the University, receives the same degree of credit as
if taken in residence.
Extension Teaching classes have been organized as follows, with a total
enrollment to Jan. 1, 1924, of approximately 291.
Alexandria.
Educational Sociology—Professor Smithey.
Bristol.
Citizenship and Virginia Government—Miss Pidgeon.
The Project Method of Teaching—Miss Rohr.
Charlottesville.
Library Methods—Miss Dinwiddie.
Lynchburg.
Intelligence Tests and their Applications—Professor Ferguson.
Manassas.
Educational Sociology—Professor Smithey.
Richmond.
Current Economic Problems—Professors Snavely and Berglund.
Problems of Teaching Foreign Languages—Professor Manahan.
A Survey Course in American Poetry—Assistant Professor Gordon.
New Testament Literature—Professor Forrest.
Library Methods—Miss Dinwiddie.
Elementary Spanish—Miss Holt.
Advanced Spanish—Miss Holt.
Elementary French—Miss Holt.
Advanced French—Professor Graham.
Roanoke.
The Project Method of Teaching—Miss Rohr.
Schoolfield and Danville.
The Project Method of Teaching—Miss Rohr.
It is the purpose of the University to extend this service as rapidly as
possible, and application from any community which can organize a class of
not less than fifteen in any subject, will be carefully considered and such class
established, if possible.
II. Bureau of Extension Lectures.
Lectures by members of the faculty of a popular or technical nature or
addresses for commencement or other special occasions will be furnished to
any community which will pay the traveling expenses of the lecturer.
A list of available lecturers, which includes a large proportion of the
members of the faculty, with the subjects of their lectures will be furnished
upon application.
III. Bureau of Debate and Public Discussion.
Through the Virginia High School Literary and Athletic League special
bulletins and handbooks containing information on pertinent questions for public
discussion will be sent free of cost to any individual, school, society, club
or other organization applying for them, and assistance in conducting this
work will be given.
IV. Bureau of Physical Education and High School Athletics.
Through the Athletic Division of the Virginia High School Literary and
Athletic League, athletics of every form have been organized for the purpose of
promoting wholesome training and exercise among the pupils of Virginia schools
and the development of clean amateur sportsmanship.
The University publishes and distributes annually a manual containing the
rules and regulations under which all of these contests are held, and this bulletin
is available to any person applying for it.
V. Bureau of Citizenship Education.
Through the Bureau of Citizenship Education short courses in Citizenship
have been conducted throughout the State and are still available to any community
desiring them. Extension teaching courses in Citizenship and Virginia Government
are also offered.
VI. Bureau of Package Libraries.
The Bureau of Package Libraries was established by the Division of Extension
of the University of Virginia as a supplement to the school, city and
community libraries of the State. A package library differs from an ordinary
library in that its scope is limited to current information and is in no measure
intended to be literary, although many of the articles comprising it may be of
a high literary order.
VII. Bureau of Publication.
For the purpose of disseminating information and carrying the results of
study, research and investigation of its faculty to as many people as possible,
the Bureau will publish ten special bulletins on various subjects each year.
These bulletins will be sent to all persons applying to be placed on the mailing list.
VIII. Bureau of Home Reading Courses.
The United States Bureau of Education has made the Extension Bureau of
the University a distributing agency for its Reading Courses, and all of the literature
sent out by the Bureau of Education is now distributed through the Extension
Bureau. The papers are corrected and graded and certificates made out
by the University. The following courses are now available:
Great Literary Bibles; Great Literature; Course for Parents; Course for
Boys; Course for Girls; 30 Books of Great Fiction; 30 World Heroes; American
Literature; 30 American Heroes; American History; France and Her History;
Heroes of American Democracy; The Call of Blue Waters (Seamanship);
Iron and Steel; Shipbuilding; Machine Shop Work; Foreign Trade; Dante;
Master Builders of Today; Teaching; Twenty Good Books for Parents; Agriculture
and Country Life; How to Know Architecture; Citizenship and Government.
Arrangements have been made with the Virginia State Library for persons
pursuing the Home Reading Courses to borrow the necessary books by paying
the cost of carriage each way. Application should be made to Dr. R. H. McIlwaine,
State Librarian, Richmond, Virginia.
IX. Bureau of Short Courses.
It is the purpose of the Extension Bureau to offer a number of short courses,
which will be lecture conferences lasting from several days to a week, devoted
to the extension study of some particular problem in which any group of persons
may be interested. These short courses are intended primarily for professional,
vocational, or business groups, and will be conducted by means of lectures
and conferences led by special lecturers and instructors both from within and
from outside of the University. Business Men's short courses, short courses for
Teachers on a special subject, short courses in Citizenship, etc., will be given.
| The University of Virginia record February 15, 1924 | |