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Show African Extention Courses Set December 18, 1961, the university was founded. Since then, the University of Utah has been most involved with the Colleges of Business and Education. Edu-cation. Dr. Grant Calder, professor profes-sor of management, was Ethiopia's first Dean of Business, training executives ex-ecutives to man the country's new airlines, sugar mills, tanneries and cement mills.. Program Phased Out The College of Education was founded in 1962 through the Utah Contract. The contract is now being be-ing phased out until qualified Ethiopians Ethi-opians will hold all the formerly foreign-held spots. Utahns have also worked in other colleges of the Hailie Selassie I University. Dr. Horton, a University Univer-sity of Utah chemist, headed the chemistry department in Addis. Prof. Neff Smart, of the University's Univer-sity's journalism faculty, taught newswriting, advised the campus newspaper and wrote the text for a pictorial biography of the Emperor. Train PCV's The University of Utah has also aided Ethiopia by training Africa-bound Africa-bound Peace Corps Volunteers (PCV). Over the past three years 300 PCV's have been trained here. gress still takes time." Other problems this summer's students may face at home are lack of textbooks and visual aids and lack of two-way communication communica-tion with school authorities. Few texts have been printed in Am-haric, Am-haric, the local tongue, but classes aren't taught in English until the 7th grade. Elementary school teachers not only lack posters, and bulletin boards, but often have never seen them used. The Ministry of Education, Edu-cation, in Addis, supervises all schools in Ethiopia, though some may be accessible only by mule. Having well-trained directors at each elementary school will insure better teaching with or without frequent fre-quent contact from- outside. In their summer classes, the directors will learn to improvise and make better use of the texts and aids they have. According to Dr. Aklilu Habte, Academic Vice President of Haile Selassie I University, Dr. Jacob-sen's Jacob-sen's training program for elementary ele-mentary school directors has had greater influence on public school improvement programs than any other program undertaken by the University. Still, it is merely one of many ways the University of Utah has aided Ethiopian educa- tion. Utahns first got involved in Ethiopia Ethi-opia in December 1959, when the U.S. State Department sent over a survey team from the University to make suggestions for the development devel-opment of Ethiopian higher education. educa-tion. The team recommended that the scattered colleges be amagamated into a university. Emperor Haile Selassie donated his palace for an administration building and 44 acres of land for a campus. On By GRETTA CALDER Clironicle Feature Writer The University will hold "extension"- courses in Africa this summer. sum-mer. Five Utahn professors will :fly to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, for t the first of a three-summer teacher training program. For eight weeks, Dr. Paul Faw-ley, Faw-ley, Dr. Gwyn Clark, Dr. William Nutting, Dr. Rose Calder, and Prof. Neff Smart will impart Western methods to some 200 elementary school teachers and directors from the provinces. The Utah team's curriculum will include English, human growth and development, elementary school curriculum and elementary school administration. The team's aim is to provide well-trained supervisors for the often of-ten poorly-staffed native primary schools, and their program is financed fi-nanced jointly by USAID, the Ethiopian Ethi-opian Ministry of Education and Haile Selassie I University. More Teachers Dr. Gene Jacobsen, a Utahn education edu-cation professor, spearheaded an "academic year" program for Ethiopian Ethi-opian teachers in 1963, while on a tour of duty in Addis. The three-summer three-summer variation, he explains, is an attempt to get more teachers through this college year quicker. All '68 summer students must have graduated from a teacher training institute (comparable to graduation from high school) and must have had a minimum of two years teaching experience. Points out Dr. Jacobsen: "Many will come from schools made of mud. Their classrooms may have no windows, no doors, no floors and no benches perhaps only a small blackboard up in front. "The Ethiopian government is making tremendous strides in upgrading up-grading the schools they are now, for instance, building many cinder-block-cement structures but pro- |
