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76 MARYLAND MANUAL teacher certification for both elementary and secondary education. Students may enroll in programs leading either to the Bachelor of Arts or the Bachelor of Science degrees in fourteen major fields. In addition, students may select additional disciplines from eleven elec- tive courses. The College offers numerous workshops and seminars for the continuing education of the general public. These seminars and workshops are held in the evening during the regular academic year, as well as during the regular summer school. The College is accredited by the Middle States Association of Col- leges and Secondary Schools, the Maryland State Board of Education, and the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education. The College provides financial assistance to its student through the Tuition- Waver Program, National Defense Education Loans, Educational Op- portunity Grants, Work-Study Employment, scholarships and limited campus employment. The College maintains membership in the Na- tional Association of Intercollegiate Athletics, the Delaware Valley Conference, and the Southern Intercollegiate Rowing Association. The College adopted its present name by Chapter 41, Acts of 1963.
TOWSON STATE COLLEGE James L. Fisher, Ph.D., President Towson 21204 Telephone: 823-7500 The Towson State College was originally established as the State's first normal school by Chapter 160, Acts of 1865. Located for nearly fifty years in Baltimore, it was moved to its present suburban loca- tion at Towson in 1915 where it now occupies a campus of 280 acres. In 1935 it became a four-year teachers college and in 1963 a general State college. The college currently offers programs in teacher education, business administration, medical technology, and in the arts and sciences. Graduates in teacher education may be prepared for teaching in the early childhood, elementary, junior high or senior high grades. Stu- dents enrolled In the program of arts and sciences may qualify In any one of more than twenty-seven major fields for a Bachelor of Science or a Bachelor of Arts degree. The college also offers a program of graduate studies for early childhood, elementary and secondary school teachers, guidance counselors, urban teaching, art education, music education, reading and school psychologists leading to the degree of Master of Education. An extension program of evening courses is available to teachers and other persons in the community who wish part-time evening instruction ana two five-week day school and one eight-week evening summer sessions are operated. Students enrolling in the four-year curriculum for prospective teachers pay no tuition if they are residents of Maryland and pledge to teach in the public schools of the State following their graduation. The total number of students enrolled in the college for the academic year 1968-69 was 13,500, including day and evening in the regular session and the summer school enrollment. |
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