Abstract :
Lewis A. Wilson, director of the division of vocational and extension education in the New York State Department of Education, has prepared a pamphlet on “The Need for a State Technical Institute,” the result of ten years´ study. The proposed institute would contain departments of industrial information, chemical and physical research, statistical research, factory construction, accounting and business methods, trade and technical training and management training. It would further research work and provide full-time courses of two years or longer, shorter full-time courses, cooperative courses, evening and correspondence courses along technical and trade lines.