Word: californiaisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...handle the overflow from increasingly selective universities, the states have converted nearly every teachers college in the U.S. into a broader four-year liberal arts institution. The state-college system in California, with 18 campuses in operation and four more in the works, has 142,000 students, thus is twice as large as the nine-campus University of California. Some of these colleges, such as freewheeling San Francisco State and San Diego State, justifiably claim that they are better than many a public university elsewhere-and, in fact, are bitter about their lack of university status. Pennsylvania maintains a strong...
...universities and colleges is not enough to handle the current enrollment pressure. New two-year junior colleges are now opening at a rate of 65 a year-well above the 1966 rate of one a week. Since 1960, enrollment has almost tripled in the J.C.s to 1,650,000. California has 80 of them, all open to every high school graduate free of charge-and 72% of all freshmen in the state are now in one of them. Florida enrolls nearly 100,000 students in its 26 J.C.s; Illinois has completed 27 of them for 82,000 students, is planning...
...pressing need for overall planning in order to avoid conflicts about where campuses should be built and how the available money should be shared. Forty states now have coordinating boards that theoretically control all forms of higher education. The tidiest system of them all is still that of California, where former President Clark Kerr's master plan is continually reviewed by a coordinating council that includes representatives of the state's private colleges. The Kerr plan assigns clear functions to three levels of state institutions: the university (which takes the upper 12½% of high school graduates...
21st Century Preview. New York has chosen a different way. While California educators prefer the masterly simplicity of their own plan, Clark Kerr considers New York's program "the most important single development in higher education today." It is working so well, observes Harvard Sociologist David Riesman, that New York "is well on its way to overtaking California in the quality of its public higher education." Justifiably proud, New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller boasts: "If you want to preview the American university of the 21st century, look at what is happening in higher education at S.U.N.Y. today...
...that state schools may be getting so powerful that they will squeeze out the many struggling private colleges or deplete the strength of the better ones-all of which face an economic crisis (TIME cover, June 23). Educators agree that the two sectors need each other. The University of California may have set high standards for all state schools, notes Clark Kerr, "but we got those standards from private institutions like Harvard and Yale...