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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1944
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U N I V E R S I T Y OF I L L I N O I S IO49 IV HAS THE UNIVERSITY "BEEN ON THE DOWNGRADE SINCE 1934"? The statement of the Attorney General, an alumnus of the University, "that the University has been on the downgrade since 1934" is not explicit. Since the University was established and is conducted as an educational institution, and since the statement quoted above was made by an alumnus, no other meaning can reasonably be attached to it than that the University, as an educational institution, has been on the downgrade since 1934. It is, therefore, the more distinctly educational aspects of the problem that the Commission has considered. Education being a matter of general public concern and being an experience in which so many of us have participated, it is an activity about which most people hare definite opinions and on which many consider themselves competent judges. This is very natural and on the whole reflects an interest that is commendable and that is wholly necessary to the proper maintenance of a system of free public education. It should be noted, however, that within the last two or three decades criteria or standards of measurement have been developed in the field of education by means of which the quality as well as the quantity of educational production can be determined. It is no longer necessary as it once was to depend on individual opinion as to whether programs of education and the institutions administering them are producing the results expected of them. The quality of an institution of higher education depends mainly upon certain characteristics of that institution. Briefly stated and without any reference to relative importance these features are: 1. The quality of the student body 2. The character and quality of the curricula 3. The quality of teaching 4. The quality of instructional materials and facilities 5. The attention given to nonformal, noncurricular aspects of student welfare [A.C.E. Report—31]
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