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Newspaper Page TextFRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1S60 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON Problems of Higher Education Editor'! Note: The steady rite in college enrollment ii pointing up lome of the vexing problem! faced by educator! -problem! that threaten America'! whole lyitem of higher education at a time when thii nation hai a critical need for more and better trained graduate!. In the accompanying two report! written for United Pren International, two diitin guiihed deani at Yale Univeriity analyie the problem! and offer lome aniweri to them. More Thinking Than Money Necessary in Education Problems (Uean William C. DeVane of Yale college has held his present post since 1938 and Is recognized as one of the nation's leading educators. He was educated at Yale and headed the English department at Cornell before becoming dean at Yale Ills plans for reorganization of Yale undergraduate study have served as a model for other colleges.) Only 20 Per Cent of Colleges Adequately Preparing Students (Dean Hartley Simpson of the Yale Graduate School, a historian by tralnlns, hai devoted most of hti professional career to iraduate school education. A graduate of Bowdoln college, he taught at Cornell and the University of Pittsburgh before joining the Yale faculty In 1929. He as named to nis present post in isaaj By WILLIAM C. DeVANE Dean of Yale College (Written for UPI) Although more money for higher education is urgently needed, it will take even more thinking than money to solve this country's e d u c a tional problems in our colleges and universities. I would put faculty needs at the top of any list of prob lems. There is no substitute for a first-rate faculty and many of our colleges must re learn this fact. It is much easier to get money for bricks and mortar than it is to get money for a top-notch facul ty. But bricks and mortar are not education. We have one of the greatest faculties in the world at Yale and these professors are faced with a great responsibility. Because of the new position of this country In the world and the complexity of a modern industrial democracy, we need desperately the basic research which the universi ties can best provide, but we need just as urgently a facul ty devoted to teaching, both on the undergraduate and graduate levels. Some Lose Balance Some universities have lost their balance in their head long devotion to research alone, and some collegiate in stitutions have had to lower their sights in respect to their faculties because of financial problems and pressures of growing enrollment, Congress and Washington have hardly begun lo look into these prob lems as it is much easier to see the problem as a tangible one of bricks and mortar. The educational institutions would do well to help them selves, and live less in the hope of government subsidies. In this they can do much, and the first thing to do is a pro found thinking through of their problems. Unless the colleges improve their own purposes and proce dures, many weaker institu tions are going to go down the drain. This doesn't mean that they will cease to exist, because colleges don't seem to know how to die, they just get worse. What about the next 50 to 75 years? We're going to see a great number of good private coi leees sorine up in the next few decades - colleges like Amherst and Wesleyan in the East, Carleton and Lawrence in the Midwest, and Reed and Pomona in the Far West. I hone the South, also, will de velop others of the quality of Washington and Lee, Agnes Scott, and Davidson. And there's going to be an pnnrmous increase in the num ber of community and junior colleges, although at present the directions they are going to take are obscure. Many of -thorn will be technical and final, many of them will be 'feeder" Institutions. As a matter of fact; the de velopment of these "feeder" colleges may bring about an even more startling change. A number of our great uni versities, like Columbia, Chi cago, and the University of California at Berkeley, may lop off their first two under graduate years (freshman and sophomore), relying on the 'feeder" colleges to prepare students to enter junior-year level. When this happens, these great universities will assume more and more a graduate cast. Eventually, several large state universities in areas where the feeder-college system develops strongly may shift over to this status. However, this won't happen at places like Yale and Har vard where the undergraduate college structure has been so strong for so many generations. Clearheaded Appraisal And finally the problem of curriculum needs a clearhead ed, intelligent appraisal. The liberal arts are the core of higher education. Any at tempt to insert frivolous and transient courses is a com promise with quality. It's discouraging to know that many of our colleges and universities have succumbed in a laree degree to the vo cational demands, and have in effect lowered their educa tional sights. There are many institutions offering for credit such frivolous courses as country dancing, "salesman ship," "advanced swimming and others with fancier names. In the transient category, I would group the entire physi cal education course structure for credit at colleges as short sighted, except in those insti tutions established primarily for physical education training. Amonff the 16 to nu courses a college student takes in his four vears. I would insist on courses in English, mathe matics, history, science, tor- oion language ana suumi sciences. A course in English should be required for all, a course developing competence in expression and not merely the tvnical "freshman com position course' as prevalent in many colleges. ARMS PLAN OFFERED United Nations, N.Y. - (UPI! r. a n a d a has formally pre sented a proposal for creation nf a seDarate watcnaog com mittee of smaller, non-nuclear to helD break the East-West arms deadlock. Klamath Falls - IUPD - The Western States Standardiza tion and Quarantine confer- here Nov. 16-17 will attract delegates from Utah Nevada, Idaho, Washington, California and Canada. By HARTLEY SIMPSON Dean, Graduate School, Yale University (Written for UPI) Only about 20 per cent of the 1,800 colleges and uni versities in this country ade quately prepare students to go without readjustment into major graduate schools. This weakness in our educa tional system is acute because it exists at a time when the scholar - the disciplined hold er of a doctor of philosophy (Ph.D.) degree - is more and more sought after by govern ment, business, industry, and has become more and more a key person in the nation's future. This estimate of 20 per cent generous on my part. Some of my fellow deans in other major graduate schools make harsher estimates ranging as low as 10 per cent. With the great surge in col lege enrollment in the past few years, the demand for top scholars who have earned Ph.D. degrees has also in creased sharply because these re the men who are the back bone of any good college fac ulty. Serious weaknesses in the training of graduate stu dents means poorer college faculties in the future, thus weakening the whole fabric New Veterans' Loans Salem-IUPD-The State Vete rans' Affairs department said Thursday that because the- veterans loan measure passed In Tuesday's election, first of the new home and farm loans will be available some time in February. Another $135 million in bonds is available. H. C. Saalfeld, director, said first priority will go to those who have $15 million aDDlications already on file. Also extended is the closing date for veterans to be eli gible. 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Print plainly NAME, ADDRESS, SIZE and STYLE NUMBER. New! Send now for our 1980 Fall and Winter Pattern Cat alog every page in exciting color! Over 100 styles for all occasions plus school . . .35c, of higher education in this country. Despite the surge of epithets directed at "eggheads" in the last decade - such jibes are nothing new, they go back through the ages - there are many signs that the national climate for scholars is im proving rapidly. Business is becoming more and more interested in the scholarly mind. So is big in dustry and government, so there is a definite place, an outlet, for the Ph.D.. holder. The philosopher can be found in the market place and the scholar of literature in gov ernment service. Govern ment agencies In Washington are eager to hire young men who have good graduate degrees. These agencies don't even insist on scholar's field of study. They want the product of the intensive discipline of a great graduate school, they want the young scholars with good minds and a broad liberal education. In business, a banker re cently was hunting for Ph.D.'s trained in the liberal arts, and certain corporations have con sidered plans for sending their promising young men back to graduate school, perhaps even to remain for the Ph.D. What about the future? Despite gloomy predictions, the potential of the . nation's graduate schools is greater than has been estimated. By distributing the load among 11 graduate schools, the pro duction of Ph.D.'s can be in "reased substantially. The problem for the devel oping graduate schools will be to maintain standards, and the problem for colleges recruit ing teachers 'will be compe tition from government and business for able Ph.D.'s. Good Faculties Needed The main hope of Ameri can higher education lies in finding good faculties, and the main hope of finding such faculties is centered in the major established graduate schools and the developing graduate schools. Teachers colleges have not shown up to this time that they can train faculty for liberal arts colleges. College presidents like to indulge in criticism of graduate schools, but they will not seek for faculty in the liberal arts and sciences anywhere else if they can help it. Just 100 years ago Yale University granted the first Ph.D. degree in the United States and other major uni versities followed within a few years. Up to that time the outstanding American scholars all went to Europe for advanced study, but with in the past century the trend has gradually shifted until now scholars in great num bers from all parts of the world come to this country for their advanced education. HowOregonVoted On Major Races At Polls Tuesday Portland (VPD - Here is how Oregon voted on major races in Tuesday election, based on complete, unofficial returns from the state's 2,896 pre cincts. President Nixon (R) 400.277. Kennedy (D) 361,423. Senate (Six-year term): Smith (R) 336,336. Neuberger (D) 405,086. (Short term): Smith (R) 345,043. Neuberger (D) 414,847. Congress First District, 748 of 748 precincts: Norblnd (R) 139,156. Owens (D) 76,354. Second District, 445 or 445 precincts: Phair (R) 42,320. Ullman (D) 62,069. Third District, 1003 of 1003 precincts: Lee (R) 89,105. Green (D) 155,521. Fourth District, 700 of 700 precincts: Durno (R) 91,501. Porter (D) 87.873. Secretary of Senate Appling (R) 405,886. Sweetland (D) 337,991. State Treasurer Belton (R) 383,282. Cook (D) 348,795. Attorney General Francis (R) 352,229. Thornton (D) 380,385. 'Twos o Great Day for the Irish When Kennedy Was Elected President REVIEW TARGETS Washington - OIPD - Defense Secretary Thomas S. Gates Jr. has summoned U.S. world wide military commanders to a review of their targets for retaliatory action in the event of an attack on this country, Gates said Thursday the meet ing at Offutt Air Force Base Omaha. Neb., Dec. 12 would be "another in a continuing series" between the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the secretaries of the military departments and top military commanders, New Ross, Ireland - (UPJ - It was a great day for John Fitz gerald Kennedy in the United States and the Irish In this seacoast town of County Wex ford. For this is the town from which the American presi dent-elect's great grandfather left for the United States as penniless emigrant during the potato famine of the 1840's. Kennedy's victory in the U.S. presidential race was the biggest thing to happen to New Ross since the British re pulsed an attack by rebellious Irishmen in 1798. And townspeople made the most of it. Victory buntings decorated homes and build ings. The United States flag flew over the town's royal hotel. Pubs did a roaring business. More than 15,000 visitors, here for a plowing contest, joined the town's 5,000 inhabi tants in celebrating the his toric electoral victory by a descendant of one of their "boys." Chairman Andrew Minihan of the local council cabled official greetings to Kennedy, "The people of New Ross Ireland overjoyed at your election," the message read. "Congratulations and best wishes." Many here recalled the day 10 years ago when a tall, thin stranger came on a nostalgic pilgrimage to the nearby ham let of Dungantown to trace his Irish ancestors. But nobody then could fore see that the quiet man who sat In the kitchen of hil cousin's house would someday occupy the White House In Washington. The cousin, Jim Kennedy, 64, said he and his family took a "quiet interest" in the presidential elections. 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