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...report confines itself to rating the graduate departments in 29 academic disciplines at the 106 universities that turn out the most graduate degrees. Yet its author, Allan Cartter, a vice president of the council, former graduate dean at Duke University, and newly named chancellor of New York University, believes that there is "a lot of carryover" between a strong graduate program and the corresponding undergraduate program at the same school. The report is certain to be taken as a guide to where a student can get a good education in his field...
...plague of higher education in the South has been its complacent "intellectual provincialism" and its dearth of leaders with the ambition to "rise above regional standards." So argued Allan M. Cartter, vice president of the American Council on Education, after a study of Southern universities. Yet Cartter also found signs of "a real educational renaissance" at four private schools that have in recent years acquired new presidents and got on the move...
...despite all the expansion, Allan Cartter, vice president of the American Council on Education, reckons that only 17% of the nation's college libraries meet the 100,000-volume standard that is considered minimum for good undergraduate instruction. Only 25 graduate schools, moreover, can boast the 1.5 million volumes considered minimal by the council. In all, says Cartter, only two dozen academic libraries are "really adequate." Among the best: Harvard's libraries (7,245,000 volumes), followed by those of Yale (4,703,000), Illinois (3,748,000), the University of California at Berkeley (2,956,000), Cornell...
Those schools, however, are exceptions. As Cartter says, there is a close correlation between the size of a library and the quality of a university. Thus most U.S. colleges are severely handicapped by inadequate libraries, since, among other factors, it is the quality of the library that attracts good faculty members and graduate students...