Herman Schneider

[1] While at Lehigh University at the beginning of the 20th century, he concluded that the traditional classroom was insufficient for technical students.

However, in 1903 the University of Cincinnati appointed Schneider to their faculty, and later, in 1906, allowed him an experimental year to implement his plan.

His thirty years of service to the University of Cincinnati are partly credited for that institution's worldwide fame.

In 1926, Dean Schneider invited those interested in forming an Association of Co-operative Colleges (ACC) to the University of Cincinnati for the first convention.

He wrote an article about cooperative engineering, which Charles William Dabney, who was recently appointed University President read.

Concurrently Schneider came to Dabney, and wanted to earn a masters or a PhD in order that people would listen to him.

A number of similar efforts in fields that would benefit from practical combined with academic work—now called internships—were presented to Schneider.

After some persuasion, Schneider became the interim President of the University, reluctantly, be he set to doing the same kind of forward thinking that he had done with Engineering.

[1] The story of Schneider's ascendancy to the Deanship comes from the unpublished autobiography of Charles William Dabney, which is available for reading in the Archies and Rare Books Library at Blegen Hall.