minimum scholastic requirement for all new training-school teachers shall be the same as for teachers in the college department.

Teachers who have been members of the faculty of the training school for not less than five years, and whose training is not equivalent to this requirement, may be considered to have equivalent training for six years after the date on which these standards take effect, provided that the president of the college submits a statement of their training and experience and files with the committee on accrediting and classification a declaration that such members of the faculty are rendering service in their own teaching and in the supervision of student teaching which is of a superior quality as judged by the standards of the best public-school systems in the State in which the teachers college is located.

During this period of six years this declaration must be made annually and shall be based upon actual inspection of the teacher's work.

B. The minimum scholastic requirement for members of the faculty who give instruction in the college department shall be graduation from a college of recognized standing and additional training which shall include at least one year of study in their respective fields of teaching in a recognized graduate school, or equivalent, and presumably possession of the master's degree. Members of the faculty who have served in their respective positions for not less than five years, and do not meet this requirement, may be regarded as having done so for six years after the date on which these standards take effect, provided that the president of the college submits a statement of their training and experience and files a declaration that such members of the faculty are giving satisfactory instruction of college grade.

During this period of six years this declaration must be made annually until each such member of the faculty has secured the required training, and shall be based upon actual inspection of the work of such members of the faculty.

C. It is desirable that members of the faculty of the teacher's college should possess training of a distinctly professional quality, which represents at least three years of study beyond the bachelor's degree, in a recognized graduate school, or corresponding professional or technological training. The effort of a teachers college to maintain a faculty of higher scholarly equipment than is required by the minimum standard shall be held to constitute a strong presumption that superior work is being done. The proportion of members of the faculty which should be on the different levels of training above the first degree shall be subjected to immediate investigation.

VI. Teaching load of faculty.-The following teaching loads shall be the maximum for a teachers college faculty: Sixteen clock hours per week, or the equivalent. Equivalence shall be based upon the ratio of one class period to one and onehalf class periods in shop and laboratory work, one to one and one-quarter in physical education, and one to three-quarters in English composition.

VII. Training school and student teaching.-A. Each teachers college shall maintain a training school under its own control as a part of its organization, as a laboratory school, for purposes of observation, demonstration, and supervised teaching on the part of students. The use of an urban or rural school system, under sufficient control and supervision of the college to permit carrying out the educational policy of the college to a sufficient degree for the conduct of effective student teaching, will satisfy this requirement.

B. Student teaching shall be so organized as to lead to a proper initial mastery of the technique of teaching and, at the same time, protect the interests of the children in the training school.

C. No teacher in the training school who is also responsible for a regular amount of supervision of student teaching shall be required to have charge of more than 40 children at any one time.

D. The minimum amount of student teaching required of every graduate of a teachers college shall be 90 hours of supervised teaching.

E. For every 18 college students to be given 90 hours of student teaching, there shall be a minimum group of 30 children, either in the campus training school or in affiliated urban or rural schools under the supervision of the teaching college.

F. No training-school teacher shall supervise, in a year, the entire student teaching or more than 18 college students, each of whom does 90 hours of student teaching, or an equivalent number of student teachers.

G. In the case of use of affiliated urban or rural schools for student-teaching purposes, when the degree of affiliation and control is restricted to such an extent that a teaching force of more limited training than is contemplated by these standards must be used, and which is not capable of effective supervision of student teaching, or which by the terms of the affiliation is not expected to do supervision of student teaching, there shall be one full-time supervisor of student teaching for every 50 student teachers, each of whom does 90 hours of student teaching. Such supervisors must possess the scholastic qualifications required of members of the faculty of the college department.

H. It is recommended that at least two-fifths of the teaching in the training school should be done by regular teachers of the training school or by other members of the faculty.

VIII. Organization of the curriculum.-A. The curriculum of the teachers college must recognize definite requirements as regards sequences of courses. Senior college courses must not be open to freshmen who have not taken the prerequisites for these courses. Programs consisting mainly of freshman and sophomore courses carrying full credit shall not be available for students in the junior and senior years. Coherent and progressive lines of study, leading to specific achievement within definite fields, must be a characteristic of the college curriculum.

Each teachers college must, therefore, adopt an organization of its curricula which will provide in the junior and senior years a sufficient number of advanced courses which require elementary courses as prerequisites, so that at least onehalf of the work of a student in the junior and senior years shall consist of advanced courses open only to juniors and seniors.

B. In a normal school or junior teachers college with a 3-year curriculum, one-half of the work of students in the last year shall consist of advanced courses to which freshmen are not admitted.

IX. Living conditions of students.-A. Each teachers college shall make definite provisions to insure for its students living conditions which provide proper safeguards for health, morals, and mental efficiency and shall promote a responsible type of citizenship and leadership on the part of individuals.

B. When dormitories are maintained these shall be of safe construction, shall be kept in wholesome, sanitary condition, and shall be under responsible supervision.

X. Library, laboratory, and shop equipment.-A. Each teachers college shall have a live, well-distributed, and professionally administered library bearing specifically upon the subjects taught. At least 15,000 volumes, exclusive of public documents, are recommended as a minimum.

B. Each teachers college with less than 500 students should have a definite annual appropriation for the purchase of new reference books and current periodicals, amounting to at least $2,500. Teachers colleges with 500 to 1,000 students should have a definite annual appropriation amounting to at least $5 per student registered. Teachers colleges with larger enrollments should have

n amount equal to at least $4 per student. The foregoing is to be regarded as recommendation rather than a requirement.

C. Each teachers college shall be provided with laboratory equipment sufficient For instructional purposes for each course offered.

D. Each teachers college must be provided with suitable shops and shop equipment for instructional purposes for each course offered, including gymnasiums for physical education; commercial equipment for courses in commerce; suitable kitchens, dining rooms, and laboratories for household arts, and adequate farm buildings and demonstration farms for work in agriculture.

XI. Location, construction, and sanitary condition of building.-The location and construction of buildings, the lighting, heating, and ventilation of the rooms, the nature of the laboratories, corridors, closets, water supply, school furniture, apparatus, and method of cleaning shall be such as to insure hygienic conditions for students and teachers.

XII. Limits of registration of students.-A. No teachers college shall be placed on the accredited list, or continued on such list for more than one year, unless it has a regular registration of at least 200 students of college grade.

B. A notably small proportion of students of college grade registered in the third and fourth years, continued over a period of several years, shall constitute ground for dropping a teachers college from the accredited list. Fifteen per cent of the enrollment of teachers college should be in the junior and senior years.

C. A normal school or junior teachers college with a 2-year curriculum must have an enrollment of at least 60 students of college grade, one-third of whom must be in the second year.

XIII. Financial support.-A. Each State or municipal teachers college must have an annual appropriation sufficient to provide a faculty of the size, quality, and attainments hereinbefore prescribed; the required library, laboratory, and shop equipment with proper repairs and replacements; sufficient supplies and material in all departments for educational and instructional purposes; repairs and replacements in the physical plant adequate to maintain the plant in good working condition; and suitable staffs, supplies, and material for the effective operation of the physical plant. A marked inferiority or insufficiency in material resources shall be accepted as a strong presumption of unsatisfactory educational conditions.

B. If the teachers college is a private incorporated institution, it must have a minimum annual income of $50,000 for its teachers college program, one-half of which shall be from sources other than payments by students; and an additional annual income of $10,000 for each 100 students above 200, one-half of which shall be from sources other than payments by students. If such teachers college is not tax supported, it shall possess a productive endowment of $500,000, and an additional endowment of $50,000 for each additional 100 students above 200.

XIV. General requirements.-A. The character of the curriculum, the efficiency of the instruction, the scholarly spirit, and the professional atmosphere of the institution, the standard for granting degrees, and the general tone of the teachers college shall be factors in determining eligibility for accrediting.

B. No teachers college shall maintain a secondary school, or a department in which strictly secondary-school academic work is offered, as a part of its college organization, except for training-school purposes.

XV. Classification of colleges.-A. Any teachers college which completely meets these requirements shall be designated as a class A college, provided that until September, 1929, it may fail to meet three of these standards; until September, 1930, it may fail to meet two of them; and until September, 1931, it may fail to meet one of them, and nevertheless be given the rating of a class A college, provided, however, that it shall always meet the definition set up for a teachers

college in one of these standards. (Any subdivision of a numbered section ind cated by a letter shall be regarded as a standard except where it is a recom mendation only.)

B. Any teachers college which fails to conform to not more than two of the standards shall be designated as a class B college, provided that until September. 1929, it may fail to meet five of these standards, until September, 1930, it may Π fail to meet four of them, and until September, 1931, it may fail to meet the of them and nevertheless be given the rating of a class B college.

C. Any teachers college which fails to conform to standards V-A, V−B, VI-1 VIIA, VII-C, VII-D, VII-E, VII-F, VII-G, and VIII-A shall be designated a class C college.

XVI. Accrediting and classification of teachers colleges.-A. For the purpose of administering these standards, a committee of five members, known as the Committee on Accrediting and Classification, is hereby created, one member of whic shall be elected annually by the association for a term of five years. (In 1926 five members shall be elected for terms of one, two, three, four, and five years respectively.)

B. The secretary of the association, or the executive secretary, whenever authorized and appointed by the association, shall be the secretary and the executive officer of the con mittee on accrediting and classification.

C. Each teachers college accredited under these standards shall file annually with the committee on accrediting and classification a report on a blank provided for that purpose by the committee.

D. These standards shall go into effect on September 1, 1927. Not later than the date of the annual meeting of the association in 1928, the committee o accrediting and classification shall prepare an accredited and classified list of teachers colleges on the basis of information contained in the reports submitted to the committee by the colleges.

E. The committee on accrediting and classification may inspect or cause to be inspected any teachers college when it deems such inspection necessary.

F. The committee on standards and surveys shall have power to appoint any commissions for investigation of any problems concerning standards which it deems necessary and desirable.

Colleges, Schools, or Departments of Business, Journalism, Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacy, Law, and Library Science

American Association of Collegiate Schools of Business

Secretary: William A. Rawles, Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind.

Standards for membership in the association adopted May, 1925

1. The college or school shall require for admission at least 15 units of secondry work as defined by the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary chools, or its equivalent.

2. The school shall require for the undergraduate degree the completion of a ninimum quantitative requirement of 120 semester hours of credit or the equivalent. A portion of this work may be taken in some other college, as a liberal arts college of approved standing.

3. The school shall have been established as a bona fide division of a college or university whose credits are accepted at full value by members of the Association of American Universities or the National Association of State Universities; and its affairs shall be administered under the control and with the active support of such college or university.

4. The school shall have been established and operated in accordance with the standards indicated herein for a period of at least three years; but a school which has been in operation for not less than three years, and which may have failed, in that period, to meet all the requirements herein stated, may, at the discretion of the executive committee, be admitted to membership whenever such requirements have been fulfilled by the school.

5. The faculty of the school shall include at least three teachers of full professorial rank, giving full time, or nearly all their time to instruction in courses offered in the curriculum of the school; in general, the majority of all teachers on the faculty shall give the greater part of their time to such instruction.

6. Those holding full professorial rank shall have the doctor's degree or their professional or technical training and experience shall be such as will enable the executive committee of this association to give them a rating equal to those who have received doctor's degrees. In general, all teachers of business subjects in collegiate schools of business above the grade of assistant shall have a master's degree, or their training and experience shall be such that the executive committee of this association gives them a rating equal to those who have the master's degree.

7. The school shall maintain a scale of teachers' salaries which, in the judgment of the executive committee, is adequate to the successful conduct of the work of a high-grade school of business.

8. The school shall have so apportioned the teaching load of members of its staff that the teaching burden will not be excessive. In general, teachers should not teach elementary work in excess of 15 hours a week and advanced work in excess of 12 hours a week.