National Reports
SHELDON, COURTNEY
Increased Enrollment Worries Colleges Boston Any wrestling that Congress is doing on the political level with the aid-to-education issue is hardly comparable to the soul-searching of college...
...2. It would be questionable policy to dilute by too hasty growth the educational standards of most other higher educational institutions, e.g., those of the Ivy League...
...We are a quality shop rather than a department store...
...Increased Enrollment Worries Colleges Boston Any wrestling that Congress is doing on the political level with the aid-to-education issue is hardly comparable to the soul-searching of college presidents now faced with enrollment bulges...
...No one in New Hampshire is concluding, however, that the Legislature will lead the way in demanding more and improved facilities for education...
...The cold fact for some of the quality colleges is that the expansion cost per student is startling if not prohibitive...
...Where is it going to come from...
...strongly urges further development of post-high-school training, such' as public junior or community colleges...
...At Brown University, President Barnaby C. Keeney states frankly: "We can't double our size...
...Add $1,000 for additional classrooms and laboratory space and another $20,000 to pay endowment for a faculty salary...
...By his estimate, "for one more student we would have to spend $5,000 to $7,000 for new dormitory space...
...To enlarge we need $2,000 per student...
...Western and Midwestern universities will look to the East for teachers...
...Across the breadth of New England, there is universal concern that even if enrollment challenges are met the problem of obtaining and retaining qualified teachers remains...
...MIT President James R. Killian Jr...
...State universities, if the University of New Hampshire is typical, almost have to take it for granted that their size will be perhaps doubled within 20 years...
...We couldn't accept more students without watering down our instruction or abandoning our position as a residential undergraduate college...
...But the chances are that private colleges will continue to prefer to make a go of it the hard way, while state universities take on the multitudes and the woes of having to answer to the politicians who control the purse strings...
...The public, tax-supported colleges will raid the private colleges...
...Most of this would be for new buildings...
...Not that New England educators are talking as if they expect the Federal Government to bail them out...
...New England will be exporting teachers to the rest of the country...
...Legislatures will respond to pressures from the public and give the state schools needed money for higher salaries...
...This will happen more and more...
...Educators here are not prepared to' guess just how far Congress can or will go in aiding higher education...
...He feels that New England will be particularly vulnerable because it has predominantly private, independent colleges...
...We are completely full...
...This is part of our democratic heritage...
...We have a primary responsibility to maintain quality...
...We also need a group of institutions that will dedicate themselves to the more advanced level of education...
...President Charles W. Cole of Amherst College speculates that the shortage of teachers "will be so great in the 1960s that supply and demand will take care of salaries...
...For the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, looked to as a prime source of desperately needed engineers, it is estimated that each additional student requires an investment of $50,000...
...This is our principal function at MIT—to do a quality job...
...3. More junior colleges, community colleges and technical institutes will have to be established to relieve the pressure...
...Public education is a unique human achievement to keep the social strata mobile...
...Harvard's admission dean says that "if we are going to expand 25 per cent, we are going to need more money...
...Perhaps they will double by 1970...
...Eldon C. Johnson, president of the University of New Hampshire, while making every effort to avoid overexpansion, nevertheless concludes that the job of state universities "is to provide educational opportunity for every young man and woman who has competence to go through four years according to our present standards...
...The library is already full of books and students...
...In substance, they are almost agreed that: 1. State universities are the best suited to an all-out expansion of their facilities...
...We'll also have to treat teachers better—or we'll lose them...
...Legislatures have in the past been reluctant to invest for the future in education...
...They have thought out their own answers to the expected doubling of student registration in the next two decades...
Vol. 40 • January 1957 • No. 1
