This article deals with the status and trends of geography in academic institutions and geolgraphical societies in the United States. Between 1952 and 1957 geographic activities increased greatly not only in colleges and universites, but also in profe...
This article deals with the status and trends of geography in academic institutions and geolgraphical societies in the United States. Between 1952 and 1957 geographic activities increased greatly not only in colleges and universites, but also in professional societies.
Nearly all aspects of geographic activities in academic institutions increased significantly between 1952 and 1957 total enrolments in courses in geography and in courses in the major divisions of the discipline, schools offering work in geography, schools having departsments of geography, full-time instructors with the doctorate, schools offering graduate work, and the [scope of research of doctoral dissertations.
The first chapter deals in summary fashion with geographers and geographic work in college and universities, although no separate analysis is made of the research of the staff members of departments of geography.
Of the several geographical societies in the United States the second chapter deals primarily with four; The Association of American Geographers, founded in 1904; The Neational Council for Geographic Education founded in 1914 as the National Council of Geography Teachers … name changed at annual meeting on November 22-24, 1956; The American Geographical Society of New York, found-ed in 1852; and The National Geographic Society, founded in 1888.
This article is written not only for the trained Korean geographer, but also for the educated layman, for the apprentice geographer and for the worker in another discipline who may want to know what American colleges, universities and geographical societies are doing, and what they hope to accomplish.