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...Jersey's long-neglected, almost nonexistent system of public higher education acquired a needed talent last week when Ralph A. Dungan, White House adviser in both the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, was sworn in as the state's first chancellor of higher education. His urgent task will be to transform six state colleges devoted mainly to teacher training into high-quality liberal-arts colleges in an effort to stem New Jersey's exodus of college students to other states...
While the unflappable and genial Dungan, 44, is ideally suited to the challenge of luring professorial talent into New Jersey, he will have to use all of his skills in salesmanship. The state has a deserved reputation for penny-pinching in running its colleges and its lone public university, Rutgers. It recently ranked 46th among the states in per capita support of higher education. The situation was so bad that a committee headed by Princeton President Robert F. Goheen last year urged a complete reorganization of the system. Pushed by Governor Richard Hughes, the New Jersey legislature enacted reforms, took...
Born. To Ralph Dungan, 43, U.S. Ambassador to Chile since 1964 and onetime J.F.K. presidential adviser, and Mary Rowley Dungan, 40: their seventh child, third daughter; in Santiago, Chile, thereby forcing Dungan to miss the first session of the International Planned Parenthood Federation convening in Santiago...
...Circle. Moyers is the last of Johnson's original White House crew remaining on the scene. Gone from the Administration are Johnson's own recruits (Walter Jenkins, Jack Valenti, Reedy, Horace Busby, Eric Goldman), as well as men who served both Kennedy and Johnson (McGeorge Bundy, Ralph Dungan, Kenny O'Donnell, Arthur Schlesinger, Richard Goodwin, Dave Powers, Pierre Salinger, Jerome Wiesner, Ted Sorensen). Jake Jacobsen, another of Johnson's inner-circle aides, will also depart early next year. Moyers' replacement will be George Christian, 39, a former Texas sportswriter (the Temple Telegram and International News...
According to Dungan, the present program is not working out because the work load in the smaller dormitories is excessive, especially for girls with part-time jobs, and because in many cases, students are doing work which the kitchen staff is paid...