A program of governmental aid that would offer more opportunities for high school graduates to enter college was proposed last night by Ordway Tead, Chairman of the Board of Higher Education of New York City, in the annual Inglis Lecture, delivered at Fogg Art Museum.
Federal assistance, including scholarships extended to needy students in their last two years of high school, would preserve "the integrity of our democratic system," Tead said.
100,000 More Collegians
Citing evidence that 3,000,000 secondary school graduates will soon demand entrance to college as against slightly more than 2,000,000 now, he challenged the traditional ideas that one kind of higher education is adequate for all kinds of people, that existing institutions can do the job on their own funds, and that federal aid will mean federal control.
One of the steps proposed to equalize educational opportunities was the establishment of state systems of free junior colleges, requiring in some cases government grants-in-aid.
Tead also called upon universities to abandon quotas for minority groups. If this were done, he said, "after five or ten years there would come a natural diffusion of students from these groups into the great majority of colleges, and the problem would no longer be acute."
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