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were told early in June they need
to make more effective use of in-
structional facilities by a legis-
lative study committee.
In its ninth study report, the
Legislative study committee on
Higher Education headed by John
Dale Russell said Michigan col-
leges must improve their space
utilization in preparation for the
hordes of students that are pre-
paring to descend on state schools
in the next few decades.
It did tell Michigan educational
institutions, however, that they
are using their facilities "far be-
yond the average level of utiliza-
tion found in colleges and univer-
sities generally."
"'no one with a realistic view"
could foresee an immediate start
on the program.
The committee said that space
utilization can be improvedmby
using available facilities more
often. A University group, the
University Calendar Committee,
working concurrently on the
problem from a local angle has
come up with some of the same
recommendations.
The average classroom is used
62 per cent of a 5: day work
week, but averages range from 37
per cent at the Soo brianch of
Michigan Tech to 69 per cent at
Wayne State University and Fer-
ris Institute. The University
classroom utilization in 1956 was
59.9.
Make Recommendations
The legislative committee rec-
ommended:
1) Scheduling more classes at'
hours unpopular with students -
such as 8 a.m. and 4 p.m., Fiday
afternoon and Saturday morning
- and shortening vacations.
2) Making better use of facili-
ties during the summer by put-
ting schools on a year-around'
academic basis.
3) Looking into the possibility
of lengthening some classes from
the standard one hour to 1% or
two hours.
4) Giving more individual ini-
tiative work to the student for
some courses, requiring less class-
room attendance.
5) Reappraising tle necessity
for the present volume of labora-
tory courses, which require three
times as much floor space as
classrooms.
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Attendance to Triple
The reason for the committee's
suggestion: By 1975 Michigan in-
stitutions are expected to have
three times the number of stu-
dents that were attending school
last fall. This would be approxi-
mately 429,000 students.
To maintain the current per
student investment in college f.a-
cilities and keep up with grow-
ing enrollment, Michigan must
spend a billion dollars on college
construction in the next 18 years.
Cdmpletion of the program
would require a 59 million dollar
outlay in each of the 18 years-a
sum that would allow nothing for
replacement of present buildings
and equipment as they become
outworn and obsolete.
In view of the state's economic
troubles, it acknowledged that
Local College
Called Solution,
The community college is a1
large part of the answer to the1
s t a t e's overwhelming education1
problem in the future, Gov. Men-
nen Williams said Monday night.-
"It is much ceaper for the tax-i
payers," Williams said, "than the
expansion of big universities-andl
it is much cheaper for the parents
because the students can live at
home."a
Speaking at a Democratic sup-
per, Williams urged'that the size
of the present commu ty college
systemi be douhed from 15 to 30.
units, within the coming 10 years.4
Centralize Scheduling
6) Setting up a centralized class
scheduling system so that when
one department is not using a
classroom it may be allocated to
another.
7) Reappraising the need for
small classes in some courses.
"The Legislature quite properly
should insist on good utilization
of present classrooms and labora-
tories in an institution before
funds are provided for further
construction of instructional fa-
cilities," the committee said.
But it warned:
"The determination of need,
based on utilization data, should
not be made by means of the ap-
plication of some inflexible stand-
ard or formula enforced alike on
all institutions."
Universities of Asia are faced
with five fresh goals according to
Prof. Algo D. Henderson of the
education school.
After visiting universities in
seven Asian countries while on
sabbatical leave last year, he said
that the five goals were: 1) to
retrieve the riches of their cul-
ture, 2) to sift the best wisdom
from the experiences of East and
West, 3) to adapt for their own
uses the best available means of
raising their standards of living,
4) to prepare their young people
for occupations that will combine
the earning of bread with the
building of a new social order, and
5) to prepare their youth to ful-
fill the responsibilities of their
newly oriented citizenship.
Characteristics Retained
Prof. Henderson reports that.
Asian universities retain several
characteristics of higher educa-
tion that have been basic in Euro-
pean tradition, such as admitting
students only in limited numbers,
examinations to determine who
should receive degrees, emphasiz-
ing classical and theoretical ma-
terials and ignoring or segregat-
ing the applied arts and sciences,
and setting the professor up as
an authority who lectures on his
subject without participation by
students.
Prof. Henderson says that the
bane of the university system in
Asia is the failure of the graduate
to get a job. "It is estimated in
Japan that 25 per .cent of college
graduates are without Jobs, and
in India the rate must be as high.
The proportion of college men
who turn to Communism for its
promise to cure the ills of society
is -large," he said.
"When pinned down, the Indian
and Japanese educators state that
it is the arts students who become
the unemployed. Actually there is
a shortage of qualified people in
the various technical fields. Stu-
dents do not get a balanced edu-
cation and those in the arts are
educated with neither orientation
nor preparation for jobs," he con-
tinued.
Weakness Cited
Prof. Henderson feels that an-
other weakness of the Asian uni-
versity is the almost exclusive use
of the lecture system in teach-
ing. "Intercommunication between
teacher and student is a cardinal
principle of learning, but in Asia
there is little of this. The profes-
sor lives in a world apart," he
said.
"Plants, laboratory materials
and books are required beyond the
ability to supply them. Obviously,
the training received by those ad-
mitted cannot be as complete as
might be desired," Prof. Hender-
son remarked.
U.S. SENATOR JACOB
JAVITS
TOMORROW NIGHT
in,
RACKHAM AUD.
8:30 P.M.
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is planning five major art exhibi-
tions for the 1958-1959 season.
This coming season will mark
the association's 50th anniversary.
The exhibits will be held in the
galleries of the Rackham Building.
The first, which will be in Octo-
ber, will be the Octet, comprising
the works of eight different ar-
tists. The Christmas Sale Show
will be held in November, followed
by the Semi-Centennial Exhibition
in January.
Next March the 36th Annual
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held in May, featuring works se-
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school children.
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the association plans to have three
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monthly show at a local restau-
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the council room of. Ann Arbor
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A county-wide orgnization, the
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to anyone who wishes to join.
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THURSDAY NIGHT
8:30
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versity's present' and future en-
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000,000. No tax money will be used
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four buildings to be financed by
a $14,500,000 loan to be repaid by
fees from students once the build-
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