A Practical Means to Educational Freedom and Diversity

Congress has passed a grandiose bill for subsidies to universities and colleges; its cost will be $841,000,000, twice what President Johnson asked. It assists colleges by bricks-and-mortar money (not touching their much greater expenses for salaries and general administrative costs). It assists students by massive scholarships and loans which will enable practically anyone to attend college — regardless of aptitude or diligence. It appropriates large sums for “teacher training” — mostly educationist boondoggle.

But this scheme, costly though it is, will not substantially help remedy the financial distress of nearly all our institutions of higher learning. As Mr. Roger Freeman points out in his new book, Crisis in College Finance? Time for New Solutions (Institute for Social Science Research, 1200 17th Street, Washington, D.C., $5.00), our universities will require $7 to $11 billion more, in this decade, to provide for swelling enrollments.

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Congress has passed a grandiose bill for subsidies to universities and colleges; its cost will be $841,000,000, twice what President Johnson asked. It assists colleges by bricks-and-mortar money (not touching their much greater expenses for salaries and general administrative costs). It assists students by massive scholarships and loans which will enable practically anyone to attend college — regardless of aptitude or diligence. It appropriates large sums for “teacher training” — mostly educationist boondoggle.

But this scheme, costly though it is, will not substantially help remedy the financial distress of nearly all our institutions of higher learning. As Mr. Roger Freeman points out in his new book, Crisis in College Finance? Time for New Solutions (Institute for Social Science Research, 1200 17th Street, Washington, D.C., $5.00), our universities will require $7 to $11 billion more, in this decade, to provide for swelling enrollments.