The Daily News Of The Virgin Islands

A five-faceted curriculum for the College of the Virgin Islands including training in resort operation was outlined Saturday by Dr. John A. Wallace, newly-named acting president. The program was adopted earlier in the week at a meeting of the board of directors in Northfield, Mass.

The five departments will be:

Liberal Arts, which will be a transfer program. Students at the completion of two years will continue their studies at a university or college off the island.

Resort Operations, which will be a terminal program. This will be similar to the hotel management course at Cornell University.

Business Studies, terminal.

This program will emphasize bookkeeping, accounting, operation of business machines and similar skills.

Engineering Technician, terminal.

This will teach surveying, drafting, characteristics of materials and use and maintenance of equipment.

Nursing, terminal. This may be delayed until 1964 as special equipment and support will be necessary.

Wallace hopes that three of the five programs will be ready for the opening in 1963.

Five groups will oversee these courses.

A Board of Academic Visitors, made up of leading educators from the U.S., will come to the Virgin Islands once a year to inspect the liberal arts program.

"This is to guard against the college becoming too insular and getting separated from the latest in academic thinking," Wallace said.

Four Advisory Councils will inspect each of the terminal programs.

"These councils will be made up of local people who are the 'consumers' of our graduates," Wallace said.

"For example, the resort operations council will be made up of shop and hotel keepers."

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They will advise on the courses to be taught and on the effectiveness of our teaching.

A Board of Overseers will inspect the college as a whole. The board will be composed of (1) Mainlanders with island interests, such as persons who own property here but spend most of their time in the U.S. (2) Educators such as presidents of colleges to which V.I. college students would transfer after two years, and (3) Island residents.