Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1920
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190 BOARD OF TRUSTEES [November 23, The teacher training work is now carried on exclusively in night classes. The students are busy at their trades during the day and for three nights in the week they meet to discuss the problems of teaching. The course is forty weeks long spread over a period of two years of twenty weeks each and at the end of that time those who successfully complete the work will be certificated to teach in the schools of the" City of Chicago and elsewhere. I am glad to report that the Board of Education of the City of Chicago, the Superintendent, the supervisors of vocational education in the trade schools and in the high schools, all are giving us their complete sympathy and support. I wish to report, also, the significant fact that the trades unions are likewise supporting our efforts in the most hearty manner. You will remember that we planned to open at the beginning of the second semester a few other classes for the training of teachers of other industries as provided for in our budget for this year. I wish to include in this report the further statement that beginning January 1, 1919, a director will take charge of the Chicago center and devote this full time to the work and that with the work so organized the State of Illinois has the best opportunity of any state in the Union to develop teacher training work in the industries because it stands third in the amount of money provided for that purpose and the two states that stand above it have the work scattered widely among several institutions. With regard to plans for the future as outlined in the biennial budget I may recall the fact that we propose to have ten of these sections running next year in the city of Chicago and several in other cities of the state as the need for them becomes apparent to us and to the State Board of Vocational Education. When the plans have been finally brought into operation the University of Illinois will through this project for teacher training be turning out 100 certificated graduates of these courses each year who will in turn be instrumental in the training of approximately five thousand workers in the grades and industries every year. This is probably the greatest immediate service that the University has up to this time been able to perform for the trades and industries of the state. Very sincerely yours, W. W. CHARTERS This report was received for record. LEAVE O F ABSENCE F O R ASSISTANT DEAN R A N K I N (13) A request from Professor F. H. Rankin for leave of absence on one-half pay, to enable him to spend his time with the educational work of the Y. M. C. A. Overseas Organization. On motion of Miss Watson, the President of the University was authorized to grant such leave of absence, if he finds it possible to make suitable arrangements for Mr. Rankin's work. USE OF Y. M. C. A. BUILDING (14) Notice has just been received that the School of Military Aeronautics at the University of Illinois will be closed shortly and the students ordered away. This will
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