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University System Affects Every Texan
Freshmen entering A & M this | and extension services in the broad
fall are enrolling in one of nine
major parts of one of the largest
educational, research and exten
sion organizations in the south.
The A&M University System,
established in 1948, is a statewide
organization, charged with the re
sponsibility for education, research
fields of agriculture and engineer
ing and in such other areas as the
Legislature of the State of Texas
may assign it from time to time.
The System’s four schools are
Texas A&M University, oldest pub
licly-supported institution of high
er learning in the state; Prairie
View A&M College, at Prairie
View; Arlington State College at
Arlington; and Tarleton State Col
lege, at Stephenville.
The five service organizations
are the Agricultural Experiment
Station, Texas Agricultural Exten
sion Service, Texas Engineering
Experiment Station, Texas Engi-
Counselors Aid In Search
To Find Vocational Choice
The real benefits of attending
college is the opportunity to learn
more about yourself. The A&M
University Counseling and Testing
Center can provide important help
along this line, Director S. A. Ker-
ley said.
“One of the most important de
cisions that any student must make
during his university career is that
of his vocational choice . . . Stu
dents with definite vocational
choices are more likely to grad
uate,” Kerley said.
VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE is
one of the major services provided
by the Counseling and Testing
Center across from Sbisa Hall.
Other services of the center are in
the areas of helping the individual
with study, reading skills and per
sonal problems.
More than 1,000 Aggies last aca
demic year received individual help
at the Center.
Experience shows that half of all
freshmen at A&M or elsewhere will
change their vocational objectives
at least once, Kerley said.
“Many students will change these
objectives two or three times as
they learn more about themselves
their aptitudes and interests,” he
continued.
Kerley pointed out it is danger
ous for a student to make a voca
tional decision by random choice
or by trying different areas of
study.
THE COUNSELING center di
rector said it is much more desir
able for the student to avail him
self of professional help from vo
cational counselors. Otherwise,
there is a danger that the student
will get behind in his studies and
become discouraged before the final
decision is made.
Ample help is available for any
Aggie whose thinking about career
objectives may become somewhat
confused at times, Kerley and oth
ers at the Center stress.
“One time when these doubts
may arise,” Kerley said, “comes in
the fall semester of the freshmen
year as mid-semester grades are
issued. A student begins to won
der if he should be a scientist, a
mathematician or whatever.
“Low grades are not necessarily
indicative that a student should
change his course of study, but it
is indicative that something is
wrong with his university career,”
Kerley said.
Careers and job opportunities
change rapidly, and it is wise for
a student to gain a firm under
standing not only of his aptitudes
and interest, but of the many op
portunities of the vocational fields.
A student who visits the Coun
seling and Testing Center for voca
tional counseling has an initial in
terview. He and the counselor dis
cuss his academic progress, his
background and other matters.
In many instances, not a voca
tional problem but a study problem
is disclosed in the interview. What
ever the reason, once it is deter
mined attention can be focused up
on helping the student to gain “a
realistic appraisal of his abilities
and interests.”
THE STUDENT IS asked to take
several appropriate tests at his
convenience.
The reports as scored by the psy-
chometrists are turned over to the
professional counselor. After study
of the results he invites the stu
dent in for a conference and dis
cussion of the interpretation of the
results and the implications.
“The emphasis here is upon the
student doing his own thinking,
we simply supply the facts,” Dr.
Lannes Hope explained. He is a
member of the staff at the center
and an assistant professor of psy
chology.
neering Extension Service and the
Texas Forest Service.
In terms of size, the System has
more than 6,400 full-time employ
ees; its work is conducted in all
254 Texas counties; its staff works
on problems ranging from control
of insects to development of better
traffic control systems.
During the long terms, the four
colleges provide educational pro
grams for more than 15,000 Texas
men and women.
The service organizations, and
the colleges, provide adult educa
tion training programs for about
35,000 persons annually. Courses
range from those for Civil Defense
crews concerned with radiation to
firemen, vocational teachers, bank
ers, egg-graders, beef producers
and schoolmen.
The System is headed by a board
of directors, consisting of nine
members, appointed by the Gov
ernor with consent of the Senate.
Chief executive officer for the
System is Chancellor M. T. Har
rington, who is directly responsi
ble to the Board. In charge of each
part of the System is another exec
utive officer—for the schools, pres
idents; for service organizations,
directors. These men are responsi
ble to Harrington for the efficient
operation of their particular
schools or service groups.
The System’s work affects Tex
ans in three major ways—through
education, research and extension.
The Texas Agricultural Experi
ment Station engages in research
ranging from development of better
range grasses to eliminating insect
pests; from improving beef cattle
production to developing better
types of grain, fruit and vegetables
for Texas production.
The Texas Agricultural Exten
sion Service, through its county
agricultural agents and home
demonstration agents working in
254 counties, brings information
on latest research to farmers and
ranchers.
The Texas Engineering Experi
ment Station engages in research
ranging from finding better proc
essing methods for cottonseed to
highway design and construction
work.
The Texas Engineering Exten
sion Service provides training at
short courses on the campus and
through programs held in Texas
towns and cities. Itinerant teach,-
ers provide information in fields
which include the natural gasoline
paint industry, police and firemen’s
training, supervisory training and
instruction for municipal water and
sewage plant operators.
It is impossible to briefly out
line the work of the System as it
affects the people of Texas. It is
best to show the scope of this work
by an illustration:
The Texas Forest Service, for
example, engages in forest fire
prevention and suppression, breed
ing of better pines, finding new
uses for forest products and edu
cation of the people in the best uses
of natural forest resources.
To do its work it may call on
the Engineering Extension Service
—to train its crew leaders; it may
use the facilities of one of the Ag
ricultural Experiment Station’s
greenhouses; it may ask agents of
the Agricultural Extension Service
to carry special news on I*
to the people of East Texn;
ties. It may also need hel|!
the System’s schools in pen-
more young men of the st
become interested in careers;:
estry and in offering pre-l
courses.
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