https://digitallis.isg.siue.edu/files/original/ef42c4282f563fbec70c9b3e7bee7b13.pdf f00219ca646f2b2f7152f0cb62b6e980 PDF Text Text SOUTHERN ILLI NOIS UNIVERSITY INDUSTRIAL NE WS BULLETIN II I I I I Published Quarterly by Information Service S outh ern Illinois University Southwest Illinois R esiden ce Center Broadview Hotel, East S t. Louis, Illinois �February, 1958 INDUSTRIAL NEWS BULLETIN Volume 1, No.1 SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SOUTHWESTERN ILLINOIS RESIDENCE OFFICE Broadview Hotel East St. Louis , Illinois Upton 5-3925 Editors Ray Spahn and Chelsea Bailey NEWS BULLETIN This bulletin begins a quarterly report to Industry on the progress of the technical program of Southern Illinois Uni ve rsity, established for industries in this area. Planned by representatives from industry working with SIU's Harold W. See after the establishment of th e Southwestern Illinois Residence Office in 1955, the program d e veloped rapidl y . By late summer 195 7, when the Reside n c e Centers were established in East St. , Louis and Alton with Dr. See as E x e c uti v e Dean, the technical program had reached tl1e point where it required the attention oJ .a.n .. inJ~.ustrial training specialist who could devote himself e xclusively to its development. The University was able to secure the s er v ices of Chelsea Bailey, who had just completed a two -year assignment in Ba g hdad setting up an Industrial En gineering Institute for Iraq 1 s Ministry of Educ a tion. Working with Chels Bailey, Information Service will publish a quarterly i ~ formational bulletin for the area's industries. MESSAGE FROM HAROLD SEE "It has been most gratifying to participate in the de v elopment of a program designed for industry that has grown from absolutely nothing in the fall of 1955 to a program that will exceed 100 c ourses this y ear. Student enrollment probably will number 1, 500 by the end of this .school year. With the appointment of Chelsea Bailey to our staff this year, we are able to provide the full-time leadership this program so richly deserves. "A personal word seems to be in order - the warm friendship and encouragement each of you extended to me when I arrived in this area some two years ago has been sincerely appreciated, and my real regret as Mr. Bailey assumes this responsibility is the necessity for lessening my contacts with each of you in industry. "The fact that all of you have giv en Chelsea Bailey the same type of support and cooperation that you extended to me is mo$t encouraging as we look to future program development. 11 CO-ORDINATING COMMITTEES Working with SIU's Residen c e Offi c e a nd Div ision of Te c hnical and A dult Education to determine what c ourses will meet the needs of the area are men from industry - one g'roup in Granite City and the other in Alton. The Granite �- 2 City Co-ordinating Committee which was o::..1.ganizcd. two. y.e.ars ago met at Granite City Stee l Company January 2 7 and recommended the continuance of the program on a two-year cycle. Members from industry meeting with SIU officials and M. A. Wittevrongel were: Clifford Bl<:l.nkensh~p. 'Safety and Security Supervisor, A. 0. Smith Company; Harry B. Bott, Chairman, Superintendent of Personnel and Training, Granite City Steel Company; Richard Bromley, Director of Personnel, Dow Chemical Company; William Lovin, Training Director, Granite City Steel Company. The year old Alton Co-ordinating Committee - like the one in Granite City - meets quarterly. The members in addition to the SIU representatives are: Thomas Butler, Manager, Alton District Manufacturers Association; C. A. Davidson, Training Supervisor, Shell Oil Company; R. M. Homer, Employment Manag~r, Owens -Illinois Glass Company; Robert Husmann, Director of Training, Laclede Steel Company; Richard F. Judson, Supervisor of Training and Pto.blic Relations, Standard Oil Company; · Rubert· Wright, Administrative A~sistant to Superintendent in charge of Vocational Education, Alton Senior High Sche el. INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT PROGRAM Industrial plant personnel enrolled in SIU's Southv;estern Illinois Industrial Management Program now number almost 400. Representing more than 50 companies, the persons enrolled in the program come from as far as Belleville, Troy, Bunker Hill, and Jerseyville to attend the courses - most of which are offered at Granite City High School and SIU's Alton Residence Center. In answer to needs e:,pressed by industry, the industrial management courses being offered this winter include: Practical Psycholoey for Supervisors Safety The Supervisor and His Job Effective Speaking Industrial Engineering Industrial Report Writing Ferrous Metallurgy Labor Management Relations Non-Ferrous Metallurgy Time and Motion Study Industrial Ecoaomics Material Handling Cost Control. Qua lity Control C:·gan::z e:i La8or -Gr owth c.nd Development IN -PLANT TRAINING PROGRAM . An In-Plant Tr a ining Progr a m has been ina ugurated under the spons'c;>rsh1p of Southern Illinois Unhre rs i ty. Day, eveni ng and late afternoon clas~es are now sche.dule d. f~r. six p lc::.nts, 2.nd others h2.ve contacted the Technical a\nd Adult Educatwn Dlv1s1on wit h a veiw to beginning classes of their own. �- 3 Classes already in oper=:.tion are:, Supervisory Training at American Zin:c, Rapid Reading at Dow Chemical Company, Material Handling at Granite City Steel, Effective Speaking at Monsanto, and Industrial Report Writing at A. 0. Smith Corporation. The In-Plant courses - designed specifically to meet the needs of the plant in question - are geared to present a maximum amount of practical application with a minimum of theory. MATERIAL HANDLING Three classes in Material Handling are 1n session at present, one at SIU' s Alton Residence Center aad one e ach at the Granite City High School and Granite City Steel. Committees have been formed in these classes to take up shop problems 2.nd work them out under the supervision of instructors. Ray Surveyor and Thurmon Darnell , tv.;o of the instructors, are president and past president respective ly o f ch e St. Louis Chapter of the -A:rn7r. ic~n Society for Material H a ndling. 'I' r1 i s pr og:;_~a:::n i s a pproved and under the sponsorship of the local and n a."l:icm <:'.l <::.sso ciat i on s. TOP-LEVEL 1v1ANAGi.-<;MZN 'J.' COURS E A gr0u.p of eight ee n ke y supe rvi s o:::- s from industries in this area meet weekly with Dr . Jos e ph B i :rd of Southern Illinois University to "work out an engineerin8 approach to th e human relation-s ·problem. '' Comprised of supervisors who report to no one lower than a vice president in their respective companies, the men were selected by the industries because of the strat e gi c positi0ns they hold. They will meet for at least sixteen two-hour Tue s day eveni:l.g sessions in the Granite City High School. The contP.nt of t he cour se - called Effective Management - was determined in 2. r.c12eting of SIU o fficials with executives from representative ~. ndustries of the are a. "Most m e n lose out - not becau s e of technical inability to do the job they are hired to do - but b 3caus e they haven't been able to get along with other:- ," Bird says. "On e of the tra ge dies in industry is the case of the supervisor who com.plain s, 'I h ave a superior foreman who's too smart for his job. ' 11 . ~1-: e first thin g V/ f; do in the cour s e is to help each man get really acquainted with h i mse lf a nci d e termin e what bias and prejudice he has. When he becom e s a bl e t o c o.r..s id s r hi s o vm problems critically, he gets the reaction of perso ns wi t ~ v1 h om h e is in daily contact. "In th e li ght of t h e i nformc:.tion a bout his own strong and weak points, he is better quali fi ed ·co u n de r r: t a D.d t he p r oblems of his foremen and consequently better able to help th e m g et a. cq uaint e d with t heir human relations problems. The foremen in tur n le3.r :.:l t o h e lp the m e n under them apply the same principles. �- 4 Most employment decisions are made on an emotional rather than on a scientific basis, according to Bird, who was personnel consultant of New York City Civil Service Commission and employment and training manager for RCA before joining the staff of SIU's Alton Residence Center. A Ph. D. in business administration from New York University, he served more recently as consultant and management training specialist in Turkey and · France. RAPID READING Intense interest on the part of management in the improvement of reading skills prompted Southern Illinois University to inaugurate a reading improvement program. Highly specialized materials and equipment have been secured by the University for use in the courses now being given at Dow Chemical Company and at Granite City High School. . .... .. . · -· ~ . Interest in this program has become so great that a waiting list has developed. There is a recognition on the part of management that the improvement of reading skills - both in vocabulary and speed - has a direct relationship to efficiency in one's administrative capacity. SIU has acquired the services of a specialist who helped to develop equipment and techniques for the improvement of reading skills, Harris Shettel. SIU's RESIDENCE OFFICE REPORTS Dean See's report to the University's Board of Trustees for the Fall Quarter showed a total student population of 2, 874 in SIU Courses in Madison and St. Clair Counties, with 1, 873 taking work for credit, 850 in technical and adult education, and 151 in conference type and short courses. Of the 1, 873 students enrolled for credit, 202 were at the graduate level. Approximately 36 per cent or 655 of the credit students were on a full-time day basis. Most of the credit students enrolled at the Alton Residence Center come from Alton, Wood River, and East Alton, with smaller numbers from Edwardsville, Bethalto, Godfrey, and Roxana; while the East St. Louis Center draws most of its students from East St. Louis, Granite City, Belleville, and Collinsville. Ninety-four per cent of the students live within 35 miles of their classes and as many as 80 per cent live within 20 minutes' driving time. Madison and St. Clair Counties account for 86 per cent of the student body, although the total student population rep:cesents 104 communities 30 counties and 4 states. Slightly less than 50 per cent of the total f~esh~an students enrolled in day classes graduated in 195 7 or later, with most of the remainder graduating between the years 1950 and 1956. �- 5 More credit students major in general business than in any other field. With 15 per cent of them indicating general business as their field of concentration and an additional five per cent listing accounting, management, secretarial science, and economics, the majors in business and related field constitute roughly 20 per cent of the student body. The combined fields of science - applied and pure - and math enroll almost 14 per cent of the student body, and the various fields of professional education claim 13 per cent, with more than half of them planning to go into elementary education. More than 700 Residence Center students at Alton and East St. Louis receive state or federal help with their education. W e1J .oy~r }Jalf of these are students who receive financial help only because they are attending an. · Illinois state univ.ersi'ty. This makes 35 of them eligible for SIU Scholarship and Activity A wards, 156 for Illinois Military Scholarships, 65 for State Teacher Training Scholar ships, and 124 for university part-time employment. Veterans receiving benefits number 318. Roughly 40 per cent of the Residence Center students receive help through these sources. In terms of possible growth factors, all evidence would indicate that an enrollment of 4, 800 to 5, 000 students by the fall of next year would be well within the realm of possibility. A partial breakdown would be as follows: 3, 100 credit students, 1, 400 technical and adult, 300 conference and short courses, and between 200 and 500 extension students. Of the credit students 1, 300 can be expected to enroll in the day program with 300 of the evening students enrolling in graduate courses. Instructional areas that would seem to hold great possibilities for the Residence Centers program are increased activity in nursing education, more technical work, and an expanded program in the field of graduate instruction with some emphasis on business. With the additon of seven new faculty members, the Winter Quarter , re.gular full-time teaching staff of the Centers includes 24 doctorates (63 per cent). Midwestern universities account for most of the 103 degrees held by the 38 regular full-time staff members, but 13 of them are from Eastern universities, including Harvard and Yale, and four are from universities south of the MasonDixon line. Thirteen of the faculty took at least one degre e in a university west of the Mississippi. Not included in the count are the Centers 1 six nonteaching registrars and business officers. Dean See's report on the Winter Quarter showed a net increase of four per cent in total enrollment for all types of programs. Full-time day student enrollment increased slightly more than four per cent. Graduate student enrollment gains of slightly more than 11 per cent occurred simultaneously �- 6 with a net drop of 21 per cent in evening credit course enrollment. Total student enrollment in credit courses showed a net de c rease of two per cent. Adult and technical student enrollment increased 22 per cent, principally because of an incre a se in 11 in-plant 11 and civil defense programs. EDITORS RE.QUEST HOUSE ORGA N S The editors inv i t e per s onnel, edu c ation, and training directors to submit education and training pro gra ms that they f eel would be informative to other companies. They ask als o to be put on the mailing list for the house organs of all industries receivi n g this bulletin. Such an exchange of ideas should prove to be rnutua l ly bene ficial. . ... - ·· · ·-·~ - �- - - -- - · - ···- •# FEB - - · - · ...-...f--·----.. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Industrial News Bulletin February 1958, Vol. 1, No . 1 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource February 1958