UNIVERSITY WORK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 197, 22 August 1939, Page 17

UNIVERSITY WORK.

SESSIONAL ACTIVITIES.

THEIR PLACE IX PUBLIC LIFE

In a report on college activities for the session 1938-39, presented at a meeting of the Auckland University College Council yesterday afternoon, the chairman of the professorial board, Professor W. E. Sewell, said a considerable amount of work had been done in activities not immediately associated with the college curriculum. The place of the college in public life had been greatly enhanced by lectures apd recitals arranged by members of the staff. The university extension lectures were not well attended, but there had been satisfactory attendances this year.

Student Problems. The report added that certain members of the staff felt that money might be wisely spent on the appointment of a man or Voman of senior lecturer status, for work of personal supervision and guidance in student problems. It

was a development which had occurred in other universities, and it was considered that in any expansion of college activities the proposal should be borne in mind.

It was stated that the professorial board would give its whole-hearted support to a suggestion that hostels should be provided for country students. The living conditions of those students was at present unsatisfactory, and lack of a residence in which university students could live, impaired the corporate life of the college.

Senate Representation. Another suggestion made was that the chairman of the board should be an ox officio member of tha University Senate. It was considered anomalous that for the past six years 110 member of the Auckland professorial board had sat on the University Senate and it was considered fitting that the academic head of the college for the time being should be a member of the supreme governing body of the university. It was regarded as unfortunate that the academic point of view in the Auckland University College should have had no voice for so long in the deliberations of an assembly which often considered matters of serious academic importance.