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By Mary Fastenau
The questions came from across the nation, but the
answers and discussion came from the studios of the Ne
braska ETV Network in the first Satellite Teleconference
by representatives of the American Council on Education.
The Tuesday afternoon program featured a call-in ser
vice which allowed administrators from around the
country to ask the four panel members about higher edu
cation problems.
An earlier press conference allowed panel members to
give their views before appearing on television.
Declining enrollment in colleges and universities was
one problem mentioned by all panel members.
J.W. Peltason, president of the American Council on
Education, said the decline is inevitable.
"The question is how will it (enrollment) decline, not
if it will decline ," he said .
Peltason, however, noted that drops in enrollment will
affect colleges in different ways, depending on the type
and location of the institution.
One response to the problem is for colleges and univer
sities to seek new markets for education, he said, instead
of modeling their programs just for 18- to 20-year-olds.
Carl Kay sen, professor of political economy at Massa
chusetts Institute of Technology and Vice Chairman and
Director of Research for the Sloan Commission on
Government and Higher Education, said he worries that
competition within higher education for students will lead
to "quality degradation" in education.
Legislative cuts
Kaysen said a decrease in students would prompt legis
latures to cut appropriations, and this would lead to
problems when administrators went to the legislators for
emergency appropriations. ,
Although money is a problem, people also need to con
sider another issue-the increase of college-aged minority
students-according to Ernest Boyer, former U.S. Com
missioner of Education and current president of the
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
Boyer said this issue raises a problem because minority
students have traditionally had the least success in higher
education because of their problems in high school. As an
example, he said only 56 percent of all Hispanic students
graduate from high school.
"For social reasons as well as survival, it would help if
we worked at the pre-college level," Boyer said.
The problems with declining enrollment could also be
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lessened if more people who started college finished,
Boyer said. Now, only four of 10 people who start college
graduate.
Reductions planned
Martha Church, president of Hood College, a women's
school in Frederick, Md., said most colleges are planning
to scale down their programs, concentrating on elimina
tion of program duplication. She said colleges will follow
Yale University, which announced it will be going from a
Cadillac to a Cadillac Seville."
Declining enrollment and the current economic situa
tion will affect faculty, but Peltason said most admini
strators are worried about the decline in purchasing power
and budget restrictions like California's Proposition 13.
He said another problem is the surplus of prospective
college teachers.
There are, however, some additional money sources,
including "taxes, rich people and students, Peltason said!
Church said faculty members at Hood College were
interested in additional fringe benefits because large salary
increases put them in another tax bracket.
Although higher education appears plagued with
' problems, Peltason said he is confident that faculty and
administrators remain concerned about education.
He said he thinks the United States has made a
commitment to education and wfll continue to honor it.
"I don't think there is a chance institutions will fall
into the hands of cold-blooded businessmen," he said.
Church said that to keep government aware of edu
cational developments, educators need to maintain per
sonal contact with legislators. '
Peltason agreed, saying, "Higher education must pre
sent its case to decision makers.'
Because of the complex bureaucratic situation, he said
educators must be available in "a lot of different arenas."
Kaysen voiced his opposition because of the relation
ship between education and the government.
"We are a society which depends fairly heavily on the
educational world for detached criticism," he said.
Kaysen predicted problems if the academic community
became organized 'like the truckers and the farmers." For
example, Kaysen said as an economist, he would not feei
comfortable criticizing federal legislation if the govern
ment determined what happened in education.
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