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maxium of three years' work, into a regular four year course, leading to a
B. S. Degree in Commerce, and (3) would dispense with the two year Pre-
Medical Courses. Our reasons for recomending these changes are briefly
summerized:

(1) Elimination of the B. S. Degrees in Education.

As outlined in your catalog, page 33, the curriculum which leads to
the B. S. Degree in Education is the one designed for the "Training of High
School Principals and Supervisors". That currioulum is misleading. The
completion of such a curriculum, even in a standard college, would not qualify
one in this state for the high school principalship. At the present time the
high school principal must have credit for at least six semester hours of graduate
work, - and within a short while it will be more than that - and, in addition to
that, he must have three years teaching experience. One cannot go, then, directly
from college to the principalship, but must serve a given time as classroom
teacher. The training for administrative and supervisory positions in the public
schools as the job of recognized graduate schools. The professional work is an
undergraduate school should be that designed to train the classroom teacher.
We recomend, then, the Psychology and Education at the North Carolina
College for Negroes be that which meets fully the requirements for the class
A High School Teacher's Certificate. This would seem at least twelve semester
hours of a general nature, that would be handled by the instructor in the
Department of Psychology and Education; six semster hours in Materials and
Methods, which would be taught by the heads of the academic departments of the
particular subject involved; and at least three semester hours in Observation
and Directed Teaching, which would be under general supervision of the Department