THE Needs OF Higher Education IN Maryland

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THE Needs OF Higher Education IN Maryland

THE REPORT OF THE COMMISSION APPOINTED BY Governor Theodore R. McKeldin TO STUDY THE NEEDS OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN MARYLAND

1955

MEMBERSHIP OF THE COMMISSION TO STUDY THE NEEDS OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN MARYLAND

H. C. Byrd, President, The University of Maryland REPRESENTED BY: Wilbur Devilbiss, Dean, College of Education, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland

Lowell S. Ensor, President, Western Maryland College, Westminster, Maryland

Earle T. Hawkins, President, Maryland State Teachers College, Towson 4, Maryland

Martin D. Jenkins, President, Morgan State College, Baltimore 12, Maryland

Otto F. Kraushaar, President, Goucher College, Towson 4, Maryland Very Rev. Thomas J. Murray, S. J., President, Loyola College

REPRESENTED BY : Rev. John E. Wise, S. J. ASSISTED BY: Charles H. Tietjen, Loyola College, Baltimore 10, Maryland Lowell J. Reed,* President, The Johns Hopkins University REPRESENTED BY: P. Stewart Macaulay, Provost, The Johns Hopkins

University, Baltimore 18, Maryland Roszel C. Thomsen, Chief Judge, U. S. District Court, Formerly President

of the Board of School Commissioners of Baltimore City ASSISTED BY: John H. Fischer, Superintendent, Baltimore City Schools,

Baltimore City Board of Education, Baltimore 18, Maryland Thomas G. Pullen, Jr., State Superintendent of Schools and Chairman

of the Commission, Department of Education, 2 West Redwood Street, Baltimore 1, Maryland

* Dr. Detlev W. Bronk was originally appointed to membership on the Commission. Dr. Reed was appointed as his successor on the Commission after his appointment as successor to Dr. Bronk as president of the University.

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LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL

TO THE GOVERNOR OF MARYLAND:

The report of the Commission to Study the Needs of Higher Education in Maryland is submitted herewith. Your Commission held its organization meeting on Tuesday, April 7, 1953. It was decided that the members of the Commission should work as a group in securing the information necessary for the discovery of the facts concerning educational needs in the State. Committees were appointed to secure pertinent data in reference to the various phases of the Study. A staff member of the Maryland State Department of Education was assigned as Secretary to each of these committees, and an additional staff member was assigned to serve as Secretary to the Commission. Proceeding on the belief that such a study should be a professional one made by professional people familiar with the problems of the State of Maryland, no consultants from other areas were employed by the Commission. All initial work was done by persons engaged in educational activities within the State and was carried on in addition to full-time employment in their respective positions in the colleges of the State and the Maryland State Department of Education. Proceeding in this fashion, the study has consumed more time than would have been the case if outside experts had been employed. By the same token, your Commission believes that the study is a more thorough one than would have been possible had other procedures been followed. Much research into population statistics, building facilities available, instructional personnel to be required, and financial conditions of the institutions of Maryland has gone into this study.

In the final organization and editing of the report, the services of

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Dr. Guy E. Snavely, formerly Executive Director, Association of American Colleges, were secured for a brief period.

Your Commission presents these recommendations as representing the considered judgment of the Commission. With the exception of two areas, every item included has received the unanimous endorsement of all Commission members. We hope that this report will make a contribution to the educational program of Maryland which will prove to be of lasting value.

Wilbur Devilbiss Lowell S. Ensor

Earle T. Hawkins Martin Jenkins

Otto Kraushaar

John E. Wise

Lowell J. Reed

Roszel C. Thomsen

Thomas G. Pullen, Jr.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This study has been made by the members of the Commission and staff members of the Maryland State Department of Education with no outside assistance other than that of an editor. For this reason the study has required a considerable period of time, but by the same token has been conducted on a very thorough basis. It has been a professional study carried on by professional individuals. The report is intended to serve, not only as a source of information for the Governor of Maryland and the Maryland State Legislature, but also as a professional source of reference for the colleges and universities of the State in considering plans for expansion.

Acknowledgment is hereby given to the valuable service rendered by members of the staff of the Maryland State Department of Education who collected vast amounts of data used as a background information for the members of the Commission, and who drafted preliminary statements which were used as a basis for the final development of the report.

Members of the State Department of Education staff who participated in this work are as follows:

Paul E. Huffington, State Supervisor of High Schools William S. Sartorius, Assistant Director of Finance and Research John J. Seidel, Assistant State Superintendent for Vocational Education James E. Spitznas, Director of Instruction Willis H. White, State Supervisor of High Schools D. W. Zimmerman, Assistant State Superintendent of Finance and

Research

and W. Theodore Boston, Assistant Director of Accreditation and Certification, who has served as Secretary to the Commission.

Because of the way in which this study was made, through the use of professional people employed in educational positions in the State, the cost to Maryland has been negligible; the major unit of cost being that for printing and publication of the report.

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