21,1950
FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 1950
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
C SEVEN
Business School Will Graduate 279, Place 60 Per Cent
BY FRANKIE WAITS (Editor's note: This is the third in a series of articles on the various schools in the University.) It won't be long before School of Business students will don their spring straw hats, and seniors are making appointments with employers to decide about their future jobs. The Business Placement bureau began last month to place graduates with companies all over the country and this service will continue until graduation time.
—Photo By Frankie Waits
Frank Pinet, director of the Business Placement bureau, said that in the last four years approximately 60 per cent of the graduates were placed through the bureau as compared with 40 per cent who went into family businesses and a few students who found jobs on their
INTERVIEWING men at work is the first step in case material work. In the picture on the left, Howard Baumgartel, instructor of economics, left, and Frank Pinet, director of the Business Placement bureau, right, ask some questions of Art Gardner, head pressman at the Kansas Color Press building.
After the material is gathered there is a meeting of the case clinic. Individual cases are read, discussed, and molded into their final forms as casebooks. In the center picture left to right, H. K. L'Ecuyer, associate professor of industrial management; Riley Burcham, executive
This spring the job prospects look good from the basis of individual companies, Mr. Pinet said. There will be from 50 to 75 industrial organizations on the campus from time to time to interview prospective graduates. Another 100 companies will probably write to the school asking for University graduates to take jobs with their companies.
The 1950 graduating class of 279 members is one of the largest in the history of the school. Since the war the classes of graduates have varied between 175 and 279.
vice-president of the Lawrence National bank; Leonard H. Axe, dean; Jack A. Wichert, assistant professor of marketing; and Frank S. Pinet, director of the Business Placement bureau look over some cases.
In the picture on the right, as the final step in the school's modern method of teaching case material in the classroom, Richard Hamilton illustrates a point on the blackboard while Jeanne Dodson, right, looks on and Betty Thompson takes notes. The students are all business seniors.
The student wishing to go into the business fields must first complete pre-business requirements in the College. In his junior year, if he has a C-plus average, he may transfer to the School of Business. On entering this school he will not find a group of stereotyped courses and business processes, but rather a multitude of practical as well as dynamic specialized courses, with fresh material gathered almost daily from real situations in the mid-west area.
The business junior will first be enrolled in the "core", the basic preparation_in the school. While in this section of the school he will take some required courses and, after general instruction in the business curriculum, he will select one field in which to major.
The school includes in its curriculum general business, accounting, finance, marketing, and personnel management. Industrial Management is a section designed by the Schools of Business and Engineering and Architecture for those students having dual interests.
Students in the school take a varied assortment of courses to gain a general background for their future work in the business world. There is economics, mathematics, speech, money and banking, political science, as well as trade, industrial, insurance, transportation, business law, statistical methods, and management courses.
Contrary to the belief of some, the students in the School of Business do not merely type and take shorthand as college preparation for their future work. In reality, accounting, marketing, and general business, rank the highest in enrollment for any single majors in the school.
Only 39 of the 685 students in the school are women. The secretarial training division draws most of the women. The secretarial training courses, with work on machines, are held behind Strong hall in annex D. Here the students are taught typing and shorthand as well as working with the more complicated business machines.
This curricula is complete on the campus because all the machines used are provided here without the students having to go elsewhere to work with them.
In the other divisions, however, practical experience is gained by taking field trips to industrial plants, factories, and companies in Kansas City and Topeka. Many trips of this type are taken each year by the students and professors.
But the most important work of the School of Business, aside from teaching its students, is not done altogether on the campus. The school employs a unique program of one material work including the
close contact of both faculty and students. For the courses in which users are used, the faculty members go out to industrial and manufacturing plants in and around Lawrence and interview workers and executives for their case material. The material is then gathered into individual cases and submitted to the business seminar.
At informal meetings, Dean Axe and professors in the school discuss the cases and mold them into their final form before the individual cases are made into a composite casebook.
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Dean Axe is the second dean of the school as it enters its 27th year of operation. A tall, slender, well
casebook.
As the final step in this modern business teaching process, the case-books are then studied in regular classrooms by the students. The school feels that this fresh material is much more beneficial to the students than anything else they could offer the students in their study of understanding business techniques and personnel management.
Before 1924 the business courses were included in the department of economics. The governing board of the University authorized the School of Business in June, 1924. It began actual operation in September of that year. In 1925 the school was admitted to membership in the American Association of Collegiate Schools of Business.
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hawk Business news each fall and spring. This publication keeps the student on the campus acquainted with the newest business processes and the advancements of their profession.
Dean Axe listed the main purposes of the School of Business as fourfold: (1) to train students to have the ability to work effectively with people, (2) to have the ability to make decisions, (3) to be able to accept responsibilities, and (4) to understand the basic forces at work in our society.
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Paul E. Malone, professor of economics and director of the Bureau of Business research, is now engaged in an economic survey of southern Kansas in connection with the Federal Reverse bank of Kansas City,
The school is especially proud of the productivity of its staff, John Blocker, professor of accounting is the author of "Cost Accounting," a book in it third edition. Another of his books, "The Essentials of Cost Accounting" has been writing. B.Cupillaro, professor of economics, has written "American Social Insurance," one of the first books in its field. John Ise's "Economics." is in its second edition.
"We are trying to develop ability in the student—not only to give him the tools of technical know-how, or merely to teach him how the questions of promotion should be handled, but rather to develop in him the ability to decide what he would do about a particular question of a particular company in a particular situation."
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Other than graduation day, perhaps the day most business students look forward to is the annual School of Business day. This year it will come on Wednesday, May 10. While other students at the University attend classes just as usual, the business students will tilt their straw hats on the sides of their heads, roam the campus, and soak up the spring sun, sans classes.
In speaking of the future of the school, Dean Axe said that he hoped someday there would be a building to house the entire School of Business. As it is now, the school uses classrooms in almost every building on the campus.
But during its 26 years the School of Business has overcome its minor handicaps and has become one of the largest and most well equipped schools on the Hill.
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