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...entitled to go to college? One answer is, everyone who can afford to; but that is an answer that does not satisfy even wealthy and independent universities. Another answer is that every boy & girl in the U.S. should be given a college education. Robert Gordon Sproul does not agree. Practically everyone in the U.S. wants a college education, he says, and now, with inexpensive state universities* and the Government passing out millions of dollars under the G.I. Bill of Rights, practically everybody can get one. But, he adds, "large numbers of students [are] not properly qualified by native ability...
...Sproul thinks it would help if every baby were awarded a bachelor's degree at birth; that might satisfy those interested only in the prestige of a college education. A good many others, he suggests, should be shunted off to junior colleges and vocational schools, to be given the education they really want and are fitted for. That would leave the university free for what Sproul considers its real responsibility: the specialized work of the junior and senior years, graduate and professional schools, for exceptional students...
From the president of a state university, that is a bold proposal. Before it is adopted, Bob Sproul will have to weather a lot of wrangling with Californians who still think Cal should be open to every taxpayer's son & daughter. Says Sproul: "You can't do anything as long as the G.I.s are coming anyway. You can't keep those boys waiting around while you remodel the educational system." But he is sure ("I'll bet my hat on it") that the state university of the future will be "a university more likely to produce...
...will not be, in fact, the kind of college that Bob Sproul himself, and millions of his fellow Americans, went to, and where they had the time of their lives...
...mainly research centers. Not part of the University of California, and not state-owned: Stanford University (at Palo Alto), the University of Southern California (at Los Angeles), the California Institute of Technology (at Pasadena). * The Berkeley team is known as the Bears; U.C.L.A.'s as the Bruins. † Sproul is now, or has been, president of the Berkeley Rotary Club, Berkeley Community Chest and Berkeley Boy Scouts Council; treasurer of the Save the Redwoods League, a director of the Berkeley and Los Angeles Chambers of Commerce, etc. He takes up 65 lines in Who's Who in America...