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Biggest Freshman Class, Best Qualified, On Way to College Approximately 1,300,000 freshmen -- the biggest class, and considered to constitute the generally best qualified in history -- will be entering in-, stitutions of higher learning this fall, swelling total college and university enrollments to around 5,500,000 for a new record high. The increase was expected. It grows out of the continual arrival of more post-World War II babies at college age, a trend that will continue for several years. Yet numbers do not tell the whole story. A greater percentage of high school students, fully indoctrinated with the importance of a higher education to a rewarding position in modern life, with its mounting demands for better educated people, are committed to the quest for knowledge. This too, will increase, as government, business and industry join in materially and spiritually stimulating youth to appreciate and understand the importance of education. Problems Intensified The continuing growth of the numbers of aspiring youngsters intensifies their problems of finding a place in institutions of higher learning, despite a virtual ^explosion, over these past years in facilities to take care of them. Still more expansion is required. Public institutions -- the state universities and land grant colleges -- have made tremendous strides in expanding physical facilities and improving educational standards to meet the relentless needs. Yet even among these institutions, except where laws require admission of any graduate of any accredited high school in the state, the principle of selectivity has had to be invoked to some degree. Requirements for admission have been upgraded. The significance of these institutions to the overall problem of providing higher education is dramatically documented by last year's enrollment figures -- which will go up 10 to 15 percent this year. They found places for more than 3,200,000 students as compared with approximately 1,780,000 in private colleges and universities. The figures are from a survey reported by the Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges. Ivy League Picture The eastern prestige schools -- the Ivy League and the Seven Sister Colleges for girls -- with their rigid admission requirements, have accepted a total of 18,812 out of approximately 62,000 applicants, for admission this fall. A total of approximately 12.000 places are available. The excess of acceptances will shrink, as usual, since many Applied to cthPi- schools. Thus the so-called "prestige" -group are able to take Time Figures In Teaching Pre-Schooler Time figures two ways in the growing trend to bring the very young among the small try into organized classrooms lor pre-school training. Having established the capacity of five and even four and three-year-olds to become interested in and to absorb learning, this is the time to offer as many as possible the stimulus of a new learning environment, many educators hold. Public school kindergartens -- pre-school classes -- are considered especially important where home background does not afford the youngsters an opportunity to start stretching their mental muscles, or to learn how to associate with other children. In these classes, one of the things that they begin to teach the youngsters is an awareness of time and also how to tell time. This and other "game-like" instruction they receive can serve as preparation for math. For example, one phase of the instruction, which also teaches them how to care for their own wearing apparel, points out that such things as shoes and gloves come in twos -- and twos make pairs. Here they can also get a head start on reading through games which help them to recognize words and to realise their meaning. Some people may be surprised, educators report, at the amazing vocabularies many youngsters already have picked up from watching television. care of approximately 1 percent of the total. But there are in excess of 2,000 colleges in the nation, inclusive of a great ' number of fine smaller schools, all of which are striving valiantly to improve their education standards. Growth in the number of two year institutions known as community and junior colleges and the truly explosive expansion of state and land grant schools, should make it possible despite the pressures, for every student to move on to higher education. One thing appears certain. The quality of the college student body is increasing. More exacting admission requirements make this inevitable. Improvements in preparation is making for better candidates. A restlessness among students of the big colleges, especially where they are demanding more personal attention from teaching staffs harried by shortages and by time required for research projects, is interpreted as indicating the more serious approach the modern college student is taking toward his education. Time Stretched by Colleges To Accommodate Students Pressure of the mounting enrollments in colleges and universities is bringing significant changes in attitudes toward the time available in these institutions of higher learning, for teaching. Some schools are attempting to stretch the available time by scheduling classes to start earlier in the day and extending them further into the afternoon and evening. Morning classes at Oklahoma State University will start at 7:30 a.m. this fall. Freshman chemistry laboratories will be scheduled far into the night at Louisiana. Even more significant of the pressure is the change that is coming about in attitudes toward summer sessions. Once upon a time, attending summer sessions on campus was looked upon as an opportunity to make up some deficiency in grades, or for vacationing in a pleasant atmosphere while absorbing some additional knowledge. About Summer Sessions Now, however, summer sessions in many areas are being dedicated to far more important purposes, and admission to them is on the basis of requirements as rigid as for any regular term. Many students are seeking admission to summer sessions with a view to accomplishing completion of a four year program in three years, so that they may go on to graduate schools, or out into the world of adults, that much sooner. Some institutions of higher learning, in an effort to cope with.the tidal wave, are urging freshmen to start in summer, skip the fall term and return in spring when campus enrollment has been somewhat thinned by dropouts and flunkouts. Among those encouraging freshmen to enter in summer are the University of Georgia, Illinois and Iowa, Ohio University, Clemson, Texas A & M and Iowa State. Conditions Set Up Still others admit freshmen on condition that the students postpone their first semester in college from fall to spring. Among these, according to the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges, are . Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Delaware State College, Southern Illinois University, South Carolina State College, and the University of Idaho. Last year, the association reports, one fourth of the entering freshmen at Pennsylvania State University -- more than 1,000 students -- began their studies with the summer term session as the result of official encouragement to do so. A final form of diversion Is to direct the students to other campuses wjthin the state or to branches of the state university. Dial for Learning -- New Electronic Service Offered College Students Application of electronic the receiver. equipment to the speeding: of All lectures scheduled for 80 education, now makes it pos- or more students will be resible for students to dial for corded on tape and filed at the more learning, just as they college's electronic communiwould use the dial on their cations center, to make this telephones to reach their best unusual service possible. girl for a date. Similarly, at the University Beginning in September this of Michigan, a language labyear students at Ithaca Col- oratory has been set up in a lege in New York, students who resident hall to help students missed a lecture, or who want with their homework. to hear it over again, will sim- By dialing a number Uniply dial a code number on a versity of Michigan students special telephone in his dormitory, and, presto, the profescan tune into a language program playing at a language SOT'S voice will be heard over laboratory. Tuition Rising Again, But Less at Public Universities When college doors open this fall more than three out of every five students passing through will be going to public institutions. The ratio is confidently expected to rise to four out of five by 1980. This is a complete reversal of the situation at the turn of the century when four out of five went to private colleges or universities. The many factors that brought about this change involve population explosion, the modern era's demand for more and better educated citizens, the response of public institutions which have expanded facilities and improved quality of their educational programs, and also their comparatively low tuition while costs of higher education have been rising sharply. Average Tuition Average resident tuition and fees at the 97 member schools of the Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges last year was $292 and average non resident tuition and fees was $639, the association's Office of Institutional Research reports as against an average of more than $1,200 at private institutions. Some notion of how costs are continuing to rise from before World War II figures, show the resident students who received degrees from state universities and land grant colleges this past year, paid $41 or 16.7% more tuition during their senior year than during their freshman year while out of state students paid $82 or 14.9% more. Students who graduated in 1964 from private colleges and universities paid an average of $311 or about 25% more than when they entered in 1960-61. Going Up, Up, Up! There will be no respite from this trend. Tuition at Columbia University is rising from $1,700 to $1,900 and comparably at other Ivy League schools. 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