PREFACE The resources of higher education in the United States have expanded rapidly in the past decade. The number of persons seeking admission has more than doubled. Yet the problem of how to accommodate the students who apply is becoming embarrassing. Who should go to college has become one of the live topics of the day. It is the purpose of this book to portray in one volume a reliable picture of the present resources of universities and colleges in the United States. Such a picture should not only help answer present questions. It should also prove suggestive of ways and means of improving institutions of higher education. Part I enables the reader to understand the organization of education in the United States and the character and relations of college, university, professional school, and graduate school of arts and sciences. From these chapters the reader will derive a point of view and criteria which will enable him to evaluate the facts presented in Chapter VI and Part II. sources. For Part II each of the universities and colleges on the accredited list of the American Council on Education in 1927 has prepared an exhibit of its general character and reThe real values so important in education cannot be set forth in such data as dollars of annual expenditures or acres of land. Nevertheless, it is hoped that the facts presented will be recognized as significant of increased power to achieve the higher values for which universities exist. The American Council on Education gratefully acknowledges the cordial cooperation of the institutions herein represented. |