A. Choquette, Chairman of the Romance Languages Department, it was a supervised workshop equipped with a variety of modern audio-visual aids.
With the adoption of the post-war program, preceptorial counseling, which faculty members had formerly provided for freshmen and sophomores under the Colgate Plan, was entrusted to graduate students who served as counselors to freshmen only. Administered by a Director of Preceptorial Studies, the program involved the assignment of about twenty freshmen to a Graduate Preceptor. Besides his counseling duties, the preceptor spent half his time in studies for the master’s degree. By action of the faculty in 1962, the Preceptorial Program was terminated in favor of using instructors of small sections of a new course in rhetoric and literature and undergraduate and graduate resident advisors. Counseling services were strengthened in 1959 with the appointment of a University Counselor, a trained clinical psychologist to assist in exploring and solving personal problems, and by setting up of a well-equipped Placement Center in the Spear House to offer guidance to seniors in the choice of jobs or graduate schools.
The appointment of Kenneth W. Morgan as the first University Chaplain in 1946 gave new leadership and effective organization to the religious life of the student body. Under his direction the University Church provided regular Sunday worship in the Protestant tradition and a study and service program. Guided by the Chaplain, the Colgate Religious Association facilitated the work of all religious groups on the campus. The chaplains, who were also on the Philosophy and Religion Department staff, had a part in the University counseling services by advising students with religious problems.
Beginning in 1946 Colgate offered a five-year program in teacher education leading to a Master of Arts degree. It grew out of faculty discussions prior to the war and in conformity to the State Education Department certification requirement of a fifth year of graduate study in addition to the usual four years for a bachelor’s degree. A program for those who wished to teach physical education and a selected subject-matter field was instituted in 1947.
The seven “schools” into which the curriculum had been organized in the 1930’s were replaced by five Divisions-Humanities, Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Physical Education and Athletics, Social