Caption: Booklet - How is the University (1922)
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' enrollment h in< re a d ab< n 7/0 I at. Population is greater and a hu i pr<> portion ol high school pupils ai ent< ing college. If' it costs cw* dollar to do a public seH when /<•>/ people are involved, we must expect to pay per haps up to fwo dollars when the sann rvice has to be performed for double the number of people. // V cannot expect to educate a growing number (it the same r /ess expense. econ Increasing Expenditures \ l l V l l is said ami written about the increased expenditure on education. The expense IS not ncreasing faster than the number of boys and girls to be educated. The percentage of increase for educational purposes is far less than the percentage of increase' in enrollment. The question for the country to decide is whether we want to provide higher education for as many of our children as want it. We cannot lessen expenditure for education and at the ame time increase the number to be educated. All we can do, and this we should do, is to see to it that the utmost economy compatible with the best work is observed. Is the University Too Large? A L T H O U G H there are not enough class rooms and laboratories to permit of a schedule which provides the use of many rooms to the best interest of the student healthy the classes as now conducted are )iot o rcrowded. Thev are still large, hut ;//; one has vet been excluded. The statement has been frequently made of late that the student bodv is already too numerous and too unwieldy for the highest and best results in the work of educating. Tins statement is made by those who are simply impressed with the total attendance. It is not a correct view. The I diversity is neither too large nor unwieldy. The mere fact that its enrollment is 10,000 does not prove either point. The statement might be more correct if the whole 10,000 were a homogeneous body in the sense that thev were //// taking the same subjects. Hut the University of Illinois is made up of / / or m olli and schools, each with its own curriculum, ['here is only one study that ;dl fr< Km en students (, must take and therefore only n< subject in which they must he brought toj ther as a home neous >up. That is in 1 v ar Rhetorii or Knidish, < v ide from this, the largi 1 single group is about , oc in \rt md Scient .which in wia/lernund thou man independent coll < rr/j • 11 tin 1 l "iint 1 • \ on, thi I M 1 \ .11 \ is no 1.11 1 than, iiult i d i mallei than in.DIN European h rsi cs in the past md toil I he) wci« not 1" n up b iu the) too large 01 nowi< l,|\ Still fui ih. 1, .1 lai
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