THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[June 1, 1920 



The Goodyear Industrial University. 



By Ralph C. Buslu-y. 



IN AN EFFORT to more comprehensively and effectively humanize 

 industry, and to further its fundamental principle of preserving 



the human element by building men and women as well as 

 product, there has just been established in Akron by The Good- 

 year Tire & Rubber Co., an institution known as Goodyear In- 

 dustrial University. It is not only the world's first industrial 

 university, but an educational institution without parallel in the 

 wide range of studies embraced in its curriculum, and in the 

 democratic personnel of its student body. 



Goodyear University with a faculty of 115, and an enrollment 

 of more than 5,500 men and women, including executives, office 

 employes and manual workers among the company's 35,000 Akron 

 employes, has commodious and fully equipped quarters in Good- 

 year Hall, the newly dedicated recreational building, said to be 

 one of the finest 

 buildings ever 

 erected by an in- 

 dustrial concern 

 for the welfare 

 and physical and 

 mental develop- 

 ments of its em- 

 ployes. 



A GREAT 



HUMANIZING 

 EFFORT. 



The Hall and 

 University were 

 dedicated simul- 

 taneously on 

 April 17, -when 

 William Oxley 

 Thompson, presi- 

 dent of Ohio 

 State University, 

 paid tribute to 

 the broad vision 

 and fundamental 

 principles under- 

 lying the motives 

 of the founders 

 of this institu- 

 tion, characteriz- 

 ing its establish- 

 ment as one of the greatest humanizing efforts known to the 

 industrial world. He predicted that the university would prove 

 a potent factor in stabilizing industry, in allaying industrial un- 

 rest, and in bringing about a broader and better understanding 

 between capital and labor and a more harmonious relationship 

 between industrial heads and manual workers. 



DEDICATED TO GOODYEAR MEN AND WOMEN. 



A dedicatory tablet in the hall contains a thoughtful and abid- 

 ing message that expresses the purpose of the institution. It 

 reads : 



GOODYEAR HALL. 



Goodye; 

 Df people 



Goodyear Industrial University Is Fundamentally an Industrial Institution, Teach- 

 ing Such Branches of Academic and Scientific Work as Are Necessary to 

 THE Development of American Industry. 



To Goodyear men ar 

 lay be, a great army 

 he globe; to educatio 

 ng of every right am! 



nan and man, betweer 

 elpfulness and service 

 nd the fulfiliment of 

 nd industrial ieadersl 

 nd friendship and fa 

 lurposes this buildi 

 )EDICATED. 



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 for every 

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illest loyalty to America 

 se of moral, intellectual 

 the nations; to loyalty 

 and good w/ill — to these 

 berly and prayerfully 



DOORS OF LEARNING OPEN TO ALL, 



l'"undamentally, Goodyear University is an industrial institution 

 teaching such branches of academic and scientific work as are 

 necessary to the development of .'American industry. Its doors 

 of learning are open to all alike. It is for the lad 16 to 18 years of 

 age, forced out of school to help support a fatherless family. It 

 is' for the foreign-born rubber worker anxious to become Ameri- 

 canized. It is for the illiterate, anxious to overcome his handi- 

 cap and to learn the rudiments of American education. It is for 

 the high school or grade school graduate who could not avail 

 himself of the opportunity of a college education. It is for men 

 and women whose college careers were incompleted and for col- 

 lege graduates anxious to go higher and train themselves along 

 specific scientific lines calculated to fit them best for a further 



pursuance of 

 their vocation in 

 the great rubber 

 industry. It is 

 if or manual 

 workers and 

 factory foremen 

 alike ; for office 

 clerks and office 

 executives. 



CURRICULUM 



EMBRACES WIDE 



RANGE OF 



STUDY. 



There are 600 

 separate classes 

 which are so 

 conducted as to 

 permit attend- 

 ance of office em- 

 ployes and to 

 factory workers 

 from all three 

 daily eight-hour 

 shifts. Courses 

 are provided 

 ranging from the 

 fundamentals of 

 rudiment- 

 ary grade school 

 education to the post-graduate courses in mechanical and chemical 

 engineering and rubber chemistry and rubber technology, the 

 curriculum embracing a wide range of study. There are four 

 distinct divisions, the production school, sales school, school of 

 commerce and school of household arts. A few of the specialized 

 studies are mathematics, mechanical drawing, physics, chemistry, 

 engineering, personnel in business, better letter writing, organiza- 

 tion management, corporate organization, finance, business eco- 

 nomics and effective stocking. These latter courses are more 

 specifically for executives and office employes aspiring to execu- 

 tive capacity. 



Members of the production or flying squadron, men who are 

 either experts or studying to become proficient in factory pro- 

 duction matters, are offered a three-year specialized course, upon 

 completion of which diplomas are granted with a degree of 

 Master Rubber Worker. Members of the engineering flying 

 squadron are offered a three-year course in which to qualify for 

 the degree of Graduate Rubber Mechanic. 



