ADDITIONAL COPIES OF THIS PUBLICATION MAY BE PROCURED FROM THE SUPERINTENDENT OF DOCUMENTS GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D. C. 10 CENTS PER COPY PART I. AIMS AND PURPOSES OF THE URBAN UNIVERSITY. The municipal university. Charles William Dabney. The present status of the American municipal university. Parke R. Kolbe... 15 18 The philosophy of the cooperative method. Herman Schneider.. 25 7383 The responsibility of a municipal university in relation to the city schools. Civic universities in Great Britain. Charles A. Cockayne.......... The movement for the modern city university in Germany. Charles W. 37 PART II. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF TYPICAL URBAN UNIVERSITIES. Municipal University of Akron. Parke R. Kolbe.... New York University, New York, N. Y. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa. Jeremiah W. Jenks. Boston University, Boston, Mass. Everett W. Lord... Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. Edward F. Buchner.. Milliken University, Decatur, Ill. George E. Fellows... Washington University, St. Louis, Mo. W. F. Gephart. University of Cincinnati. Charles W. Dabney. Reed College, Portland, Oreg. W. T. Foster. University of Louisville, Louisville, Ky. John L. Patterson.. `Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill. W. E. Hotchkiss. College of the City of New York, New York, N. Y. Charles Baskerville... 42 44 46 48 50 50 52 54 55 56 58 61 62 64 3 LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, BUREAU OF EDUCATION, Washington, September 11, 1915. SIR: The problems of industry, government, and life in the modern industrial and commercial city are numerous, large, and complex. For their solution are needed a larger amount of scientific knowledge and higher standards of intelligence among citizens. All the city's agencies for good and progress need to be united and vitalized for more effective functions. There is a growing conviction among thoughtful people that this can be done best by the municipal university, maintained as an essential part, of the city's system of public education, or by a privately endowed university working in close sympathetic relations with all other agencies of education in the city. It will require much study of this subject to ascertain: (1) The need for the municipal university, (2) its functions, (3) the best means of organizing and supporting it, (4) its relation to all the phases of city life. The interest in this subject has resulted already in the organization of a National Association of Municipal Universities, which held its first meeting in Washington City November 9-10, 1914. The publication of the papers, addresses, and informal discussion of this meeting in the condensed form here presented will, I believe, promote further study of the subject. I therefore recommend that they be published as a bulletin of the Bureau of Education under the title "The University and the Municipality." Respectfully submitted. The SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR. 4 P. P. CLAXTON, THE UNIVERSITY AND THE MUNICIPALITY. INTRODUCTION. For several years need has been felt for an association of the institutions of learning engaged in studying civic problems and training for public service. At first it was thought that the universities and colleges controlled and financed by cities might unite with the National Association of State Universities. After mature consideration, however, the conclusion was reached that the interests of both State and city institutions would be best served by forming a new and separate association representing urban universities and colleges, particularly those cooperating in municipal affairs. Accordingly the National Association of State Universities invited the representatives "of all municipal universities and other universities in cities interested in the service of their communities" to attend its meeting to be held in Washington, D. C., November 9 and 10, 1914. The invitation stated that a conference on the city university would be held immediately after the adjournment of the Association of State Universities. The call for this meeting (which led to the formation of the Association of Urban Universities) set forth the tasks and purposes of these urban institutions as follows: The municipal colleges are aiming to do for their cities some of the things the State universities are doing so admirably for their States. Private institutions in cities, realizing the obligations resulting from freedom of taxation, are endeavoring to serve their local communities. The general public, on the one hand, is awakening to the value and necessity of expert knowledge; and the universities, on the other, are realizing as never before their duty to train men and women for municipal, State, and national positions. Since much of this is new and experimental, it is thought that a conference on the relations of civic universities to their local institutions and communities will prove helpful. The call for the meeting also said: A statement from each institution with regard to some phase of its organization or methods would prove helpful. It is therefore requested that each college will send a delegate prepared to make a brief statement of the special features of its work. These reports will be found in Part II of this bulletin (p. 42). The following persons, representing the institutions as given, constituted the conference: Fred E. Ayer, dean of the College of Engineering, Municipal University of Akron, Charles Baskerville, professor, College of the City of New York, N. Y. W. P. Burriss, dean of the University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio. Walter E. Clark, professor, College of the City of New York, N. Y. Charles A. Cockayne, Toledo, Ohio. Charles W. Dabney, president, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio. George E. Fellows, president, James Milliken University, Decatur, Ill. A. Y. Ford, president board of trustees, University of Louisville, Louisville, Ky. William T. Foster, president, Reed College, Portland, Oreg. W. F. Gephart, professor, Washington University, St. Louis, Mo. Frank J. Goodnow, president, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. W. E. Hotchkiss, dean, Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill. S. B. Linhart, professor, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa. Charles P. Norton, chancellor, University of Buffalo, Buffalo, N. Y. William Orr, assistant commissioner of education, Massachusetts board of education, Boston, Mass. John L. Patterson, dean of College of Arts and Sciences, University of Louisville, Louisville, Ky. C. B. Robertson, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa. Herman Schneider, dean, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio. A. Monroe Stowe, president, Toledo University, Toledo, Ohio. P. P. Claxton, U. S. Commissioner of Education, Washington, D. C. S. P. Capen, U. S. Bureau of Education, Washington, D. C. The conference having temporarily organized at 4.30 p. m., November 10, and having appointed a committee on organization and permanent officers, adjourned until 9 a. m., November 11, when the following officers were elected for the coming year: President: President Dabney, of Cincinnati. Vice President: Prof. Lord, of Boston University. Secretary and treasurer: Prof. Walter E. Clark, of the College of the City of New York. After formal organization the association resolved itself into an experience meeting, each institution reporting upon the methods of cooperation with city activities which it had already adopted. The morning session and luncheon hour were occupied by these detailed reports. The afternoon was given to a more general and formal discussion of the proper field and aim of the municipal university. The papers given in Part I of this bulletin embody the gist of that general discussion. The name chosen for the new organization is the Association of Urban Universities. Membership is institutional, not personal. The following 16 institutions are the charter members: Boston University, The College of the City of New York, Hunter's College of the City of New York, Johns Hopkins University, The Municipal University of Akron, New York University, Northwestern University, Reed College, Temple University, Toledo University, University of Buffalo, University of Cincinnati, University of Louisville, University of Pennsylvania, University of Pittsburgh, Washington University. |