THE COLLEGE OF TOMORROW
Who will go to college—and where?
What will they find?
Who will teach them?
Will they graduate?
What will college have done for them?
Who will pay—and how?
"WILL MY CHILDREN GET INTO COLLEGE?"The question haunts most parents. Here is the answer:
Yes...
If they graduate from high school or preparatory school with something better than a "scrape-by" record.
If they apply to the college or university that is right for them—aiming their sights (and their application forms) neither too high nor too low, but with an individuality and precision made possible by sound guidance both in school and in their home.
If America's colleges and universities can find the resources to carry out their plans to meet the huge demand for higher education that is certain to exist in this country for years to come.
The if's surrounding your children and the college of tomorrow are matters of concern to everyone involved— to parents, to children, to alumni and alumnae (whatever their parental status), and to the nation's educators. But resolving them is by no means being left to chance.
The colleges know what they must do, if they are to meet the needs of your children and others of your children's generation. Their planning is well beyond the handwringing stage.
The colleges know the likely cost of putting their plans into effect. They know this cost, both in money and in manpower, will be staggering. But most of them are already embarked upon finding the means of meeting it.
Governments—local, state, and federal—are also deeply involved in educational planning and financing. Some parts of the country are far ahead of others. But no region is without its planners and its doers in this field.
Public demand—not only for expanded facilities for higher education, but for ever-better quality in higher education—today is more insistent, more informed than ever before. With this growth of public sophistication about higher education, it is now clear to most intelligent parents that they themselves must take a leading role in guiding their children's educational careers—and in making certain that the college of tomorrow will be ready, and good, for them.
This special report is in the form of a guide to parents. But we suspect that every reader, parent or not, will find the story of higher education's future remarkably exciting.
