Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-02-15
COST OF EDUCATION IN KANSAS
SOME FACTS ABOUT THE STATE
AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.
Costs Less Annually to Teach a Stu
dent There Than in SINH
lar Institutions.


time new legislature assemblies. We
hear much about the tremendous ex-
penses attached to teaching, especial
ly in the big Institutions. This is be-
cause the people see references to
millions in the papers. They sell
dom study their tax receipts. They
seldom know that about two dollars
of the SIT they paid in taxes went to
the state and that the other SIS went
to the county and township
1t is generally conceded that the
agricultural college of Kansas is
closer to the people and serves the
state more completely than, perhaps,
any ether agricultural college in the
United States. 1t is referred to as
model or type in other states, as an
institution that serves its people. At
the same time that this is true it is
costing actually less in proportion to
the service rendered than any other
like institution in the country. For
example: taking the total income from
all sources and deducting the amount
used for permanent Improvements
such as buildings, as shown by the
last annual report of the United
States Commissioner of Education, the
cost to the state and federal govern
ment per student in the Kansas State
Agricultural College is $1,000 per
year. At the Iowa Agricultural Col
lege it is $214.0O, just double the
amount In the Indiana Agricultural
College purdue University, it was
S273.0 GO; Michigan, $4,000; Massachu-
sets Agricultural College, $4,000. At
the Maryland Agricultural College, it
is $4,000 per student per year.
There is only one institution in the
United States where the cost is less
than in Kansas, and that is Arkansas,
where it is 10000
Will a single board save expense?
It has not shown saving in any
state where tried. The Iowa inst1tu-
lions under the Single Board are cost
ing more per student and in the ag-
gregate now than when put in charge
of the Single Board. No instance can
be found of an important saving I'M
der this form of administration, while
there has been a constant feeling OF
unrest, and all the Institutions have
suffered heavy losses of their best
men The institutions were thrown
into politics during the last campaign
in Iowa, and are now appealing to
the legislature to undo the acts or the
Single Board.
The condition in Oklahoma where
the institutions, with the exception of
the agricultural college, are under
the control of one board, is declared
to be intolerable. A prominent edu-
Gator commenting on the situation
there recently said: mo real univer-
sity can exist under such conditions!
President Van Hise of Wisconsin
says that under the circumstances it
will be extraordinary if any man OF
ability who has a fair place in an
other state should accept position
in any of the educational institutions
in Oklahoma.
In Florida the condition under the
Single Board plan has been pro
nounced wholly unsatisfactory
In Montana there has been con-
slant unrest under a central board,
and President Van Hise declares that
the Montana system shows "a larger
number of Objectionable features
than any other system
In Oregon, after a trial with
board of four appointed by the gov
ernor to pass on all courses oHered
in the university and the agricultural
college, the idea of having Single
Board of Control was referred to the
people at the last election and voted
down by a large majority
In other >states, Georgia, Miss1s-
sippi, South Dakota and West Viz
ginia, where the single board expert
ment is being tried, the condition OF
the educational institutions is gener-
aI1v unsatisfactory, and in no case is
If nm to the standard Of Kansas