SR_DPI_DNE_Special_Subject_File_B5F1_Durham_NC_College_Negroes

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North Carolina College for negroes

Durham

OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT

JAMES E. SHEPARD PRESIDENT W.J. BROGDEN CHAIRMAN BOARD OF TRUSTEES J.B. MASON SECRETARY-TREASURER

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January 11, 1926.

Mr. N.C. Newbold, Department of Education, Raleigh, N.C.

Dear Sir:

I inclose you copy of the first quarters work of this Institution so as to give you an idea as to how the curriculum is being carried out.

With ever good wish, I am Sincerely yours, [Signature] J Shepard President.

QUARTERLY REPORT

OF

COLLEGE and NORMAL CLASSES

Sept. 16, 1925--Dec. 14, 1925.

North Carolina College for Negroes

Dec. 30, 1925

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North Carolina College for Negroes

REPORT

For the academic quarter ending Dec. 14, 1925.

To the President of the College

Sir:

I have the honor to present the following report for the quarter Sept. 16--Dec. 14, 1925.

The teachers for the past quarter have been imparting the subject matter with enthusiasm. The students, on a whole, have exercised a reasonable amount of interest. These combined efforts might lead one to believe that the results of the quarter's work would be exceptionally good. This, however, is not quite the case. The quarter has been marked by an effort on the part of the teachers to accomplish as much work as each individual teacher thought that a college class should accomplish. This effort, in many cases, worked a certain hardship on many of the students who have sufficient credits to be in the college classes but whose preparation is insufficient to grasp college methods of teaching and the abundance of material to be mastered. The quarter may be termed as one in which both teachers and students found themselves. I am glad to say that in all cases the teachers are determined to do the work that any accredited college class in the country would do. This ideal, under the prresent situation, may not be wholly possible, yet it is an ideal worth cherishing.

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In our effort to abandon high school methods of teaching and general persuasive tendencies to make students study and to like the subject at hand I am afraid that we may be going too far in the other direction of casting the burden upon the students. The--"It's up to you" tendency. On account of their inadequate preparation these students must be helped morer. In order to increase the helpful attitude I am asking each teacher to make known one hour (known as office hour) for at least three times a week during which students may come in with special difficulties.

The following list shows the percent of students passing in each subject in the Freshman College work.

English--85%; Mathematics--40%; History--65%; Biology--40%; French--70%; Music--62%.

The average percent is 60%. This figure shows that the situation is not alaarming.

The following table groups the students in the Freshman College classes in the order of their excellence. The numbers 1, 2, 3, etc. indicates their relative position in respect to the other students in the class. (P means passing and F means failing.)

FRESHMAN COLLEGE Quarter Ending Dec. 11, 1925.

Students Passing in all Subjects Taken

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