mined by the extension council of the State board of education. In Kansas the State Agricultural College supplies the extension division of the university with demonstrators and lecturers in home economics for community institute programs, their local expenses being paid by the university extension division. The cooperation between Minnesota, North Dakota, and Wisconsin is in securing and routing lyceum talent. Oklahoma exchanged publications and package library material and has cooperation in correspondence study. The latter is found in a limited degree also in Oregon and in Colorado, which also exchange slides to a limited extent. Pittsburgh has used the correspondence-study division of the University of Chicago for its work in this line. It is a common practice to refer requests from outside the State to the extension division in the State where the correspondent resides. BUDGET. The appropriations for extension work are as a rule made either directly by the legislature or by the board of regents of the university, upon an estimate submitted by the director and approved by the president. The two methods of providing funds are about equally common. In one institution the president alone makes the assignment for the extension division. Fees are charged by all of the 24 divisions reporting except two. They are regularly charged for correspondence work, and nearly always for class instruction also. In several cases a fee is charged only for credit courses. One division which has until now not charged fees for class instruction will do so hereafter. In the case of lectures the fee nicst commonly goes directly to the lecturer, together with the expenses of the trip. In isolated cases no charge is made for lectures, except the expenses of the lecturer. Fees are also charged in some cases for community institutes, short courses, service to women's clubs, current-topics study, first-aid instruction, industrial classes, and the use of slides and films. The fees are sometimes paid into the extension fund; sometimes, and with about the same frequency, into the general university fund; or, in Massachusetts, into the State treasury. In the former case sometimes a fixed division is made between the divisions and the instructor, 50-50 in one, 20-80 in another, and 10-90 for the regular faculty and 30-70 for local instructors in a third. In the lastnamed case 20 per cent goes to the local administration for the expense of supervision. When the fees are paid into the university fund, this is in several instances done as a mere form, since they are reappropriated to the division or subject to its call for certain payments in instruction. Methods of payment.-The payment to instructors is made according to several different methods. Sometimes regular members of the faculty receive no extra compensation for extension work; sometimes they are paid according to a scale, in which their regular salaries, the nature of the course or lecture and the attendance at the lecture or class, as well as the frequency of its meetings, may be factors. Local or outside instructors are sometimes paid according to the fees received from their work, even when regular instructors are not thus paid, but more commonly they are engaged for a specific purpose and paid a sum agreed upon. Two institutions pay the fees up to a certain amount, one of them with a certain guaranty in addition. Another makes the pay depend on fees received for class work within certain limits of attendance. Assistance for grading and correcting correspondence-study papers is, at least in some cases, paid by the lesson or assignment. Other kinds of income received by the extension divisions are of such a varied character that they are difficult to estimate. Practically all the divisions receive considerable local help, which if counted as actual income would bulk large. Equally difficult is it to determine how much service the extension work receives from the faculty members and from the general administrative staff of the university. In some institutions, telephone, telegraph, and express charges are paid from the general university fund and not charged against the extension budget. Divisions in some instances receive special appropriations from the State board of education, some obtain gifts of the cost of printing special bulletins, others receive financial assistance from industrial or commercial corporations for conducting work for employees or the community. Little effort is made to establish a fixed budget for the different bureaus of a division, the assignment of funds depending on the needs as they arise. In several very distinctly defined lines of work, like that of the institutes of arts and sciences at Columbia, and the summer extension work of the Iowa State Teachers' College, a fixed separation of funds is the established practice. The traveling expenses of instructors and lecturers and other agents are paid by the extension division in 7 States, by the community in 7, by the State in 6, by the university in 4. Communities do not, however, always pay these expenses, even in the States referred to, since there is usually an alternative. In some cases the administrative expenses are excepted and paid by the extension division or the State. In two cases the expenses are met out of the fees. In a similar manner, institutes or conferences are financed by the university in 5 cases, by the extension divisions in 4, by the State in 2, by cooperation of the community and the extension division in 3, by the community in 1, by one of the three methods in 3, by special appropriation in 2, by the State board of education in 1. Slides, films, and package libraries are furnished free, except for cost of transportation, and in some cases for damage, in 9 States, in one of which it is provided that no admission fee be charged. In 2 additional States transportation one way only is charged. THE FLORIDA BUDGET. The following is a partially itemized budget for general extension as provided by act of the Florida legislature in 1919: . SECTION 5. The sum of $50,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of the general revenue fund to carry out the work herein authorized. for a period of two years and one month from June 1, 1919, to June 30, 1921, and shall be expended as follows: Salary of director....... Salary of field agent.. .one year.. $3.000 3,000 2.700 Salary of office assistants, stenographers, filing clerks, and librarians...do.... Extra pay for professors engaged in outside work, estimated for 352 days at $1,760 3,000 .do.... 500 1,050 1,290 .do.... 500 1, 500 Contingencies, telegrams, researches, advertising, and extra salaries ...do.... [Appropriations for items listed above may be transferred from one to another as need 500 $25,000 $25,000 $50,000 Purchase of filing cases, writing machines, and other office furniture..do.... Total....... For second year.. For the two years... UNIVERSITY POLICY. The following is a condensed statement of the place and function of an extension division in university policy. The propositions are taken from a preliminary draft of the by-laws proposed for a western university. SECTION 1. Fundamental considerations. The university is under obligations to serve, within its means; all the people of the State. The department of instruction is the unit of university activity, whether on or off the campus. A school of the university is an administrative device by which certain major interests of the people may be more efficiently served. Departments that contribute to the activity of a school retain their integrity and independence as structural units of the university. Only stringent necessity should make it necessary for the board of regents to establish more than one department covering the same field. SEC. 2. The field of the extension division. The extension division is coordinate with the other divisions called schools. It is the administrative device by which the university serves the people of the State who can not come to the campus for instruction, or who, if they come to the campus, take only such work, especially provided, as their regular vocational duties permit them to take. SEC. 3. The extension division and the departments. The departments of the university must do their teaching work beyond the campus through the extension division, and credit extension classes must be given with the general understanding of the departments concerned. SEC. 4. The extension division and schools. In such of its teaching work as is designed to count toward a university degree the extension division represents the schools, and such work must be given with the understanding of the schools concerned. SEC. 5. Independent organization authorized. The extension division may be authorized to undertake work independently of the departments or schools. SEC. 6. Classification of extension workers. Members of the extension staff, who give instruction in a recognized field of knowledge should be classified also with the staffs of the departments in question. Clerks and administrative officers should be classified only with the extension staff. SEC. 7. Classification of extension students. All students taking credit courses by extension should be classified as of the school in which their major work lies. They should, however, determine this classification themselves, on their application cards at the time of registration or on forms otherwise provided by the registrar. All extension students not so fixing their classification in schools and all other extension students shall be classified merely as extension students. This section does not in any way prohibit the extension division from maintaining and publishing lists of all students doing extension work. LIST OF EXTENSION PUBLICATIONS.1 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-EXTENSION DIVISION. BULLETINS. Volume 1. 1915-16. No. 9. Part 1. Bureau of Correspondence Instruction. (General information.) the Interscholastic Public Speaking League of California.) No. 15. University extension service for teachers. Volume 2. 1916-17. No. 8. Correspondence courses in gasoline automobiles, advanced shop mathematics, etc. No. 16. Compulsory health insurance. No. 19. Military service. No. 21. Single house legislature. No. 23. Some suggestions regarding possibilities of service in view of the war. Volume 3. 1917-18. No. 1. Bureau of Class Instruction. (Announcements of courses 1917-18.) No. 2. The newsprint situation. No. 3. League to enforce peace. No. 4. Schedule of classes (August). No. 5. Preliminary announcement for Southern California. No. 6. Preparing the way for peace. (Stereopticon lecture outline.) No. 7. Steps toward democracy-in Europe. (Syllabus of six illustrated lectures.) No. 8. From north to south in Europe. (Syllabus of six illustrated lectures.) No. 9. Episodes in American history and exploration. (Syllabus of six illustrated lectures.) No. 10. Revelations of intrigue. (Stereopticon lecture outline.) No. 11. Constitution, Public Speaking League. No. 12. Correspondence course in music. No. 13. Courses in philosophy, political science, economics, and history. (Cor. respondence.) No. 14. Judging the debate. No. 15. Astronomy, oral and dental hygiene, zoology. (Correspondence.) No. 17. The single tax. No. 18. Use and care of the gasoline automobile. (Correspondence.) No. 19. Disaster and its reaction. (Stereopticon lecture outline.) No. 20. Government monopoly of the manufacture of munitions of war. No. 21. Correspondence courses in business subjects. No. 22. Schedule of classes (January). No. 23. Illustrated lectures on art. No. 24. Constitution, rules and regulations, junior section, Interscholastic Public-Speaking League. 1 This check list of university extension publications was originally prepared by Dr. Schlicher from records in the office of the division of educational extension. The list includes those bulletins and circulars sent to Washington and those tabulated in the publications of several divisions. |