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Caption: Book - Four-Year Report of UI President (1950)
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Some Continuing Problems T H E CHANGING CHARACTER OF T H E S T U D E N T BODY In gross size, the postwar University had to be twice the prewar University, and something more than mere doubling was demanded In one sense, the call was for the creation on the Urbana-Champaign campus of a "second" University. In the past four years the composition of the student body changed. Four years ago the Graduate College enrolled 1,792 students; in 1949-50 there were 3,359 graduate students. Four years ago there were 6,168 juniors and seniors; last year there were 9,444 juniors and seniors. The Board of Trustees agreed that the administration should make this "second" University as good as, if not better than, the "first" University. If there was to be a doubling in size, there should be also a gain in quality and distinction. Anything less than this would be "selling higher education short" to the people of Illinois. Accordingly, a world-wide search for talent has been undertaken. Fifteen deans and directors and twenty-five new department heads have been appointed. To meet postwar needs, seven new divisions have been created with their own administrative officers. The academic staff has grown from 1,528 to 3,144. These figures illustrate in a surface way what it has meant to create in four years a "second" University equal to the "first" University of the prewar period. There was another requirement. We have heard much of wartime invention and discovery. If the laboratories and materials of the postwar University had merely duplicated those of the prewar period, they would have been out of date and the University would have surrendered its front-rank position. Among the new research facilities may \» m e n t i o n e d : The carbon-14 laboratory provides a pi. e where radioactive pOlindl ran be synthesized. >ni- 51
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