Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-11-25
COLLEGES OUGHT TO COMBINE
SAYS EDUCATIONAL SURVEY
IN IOWA REPORT.
ONLY TEN IN STATE
WITH GOOD SUPPORT
Few Have Endowment Of 100000, Con-
sidered Essential to Sueeess-ln.
crease in Attendance to Be Slow as
Population Becomes More Stable
Fee System Inadequate.

DeS Moines. Nov. %. - OF twenty.
three privately supported colleges and
univers tiles of Iowa, many which have
endowments of less than 100000 may
be expected to combine, to become jun
Tor colleges or possibly to devote them
selves TO less expensive grades of ed
ucatiOnal work, The educational survey
commission says in it, report filed with
the state board of education.
In the oplni~ II II the commission the
will become smaller in stead of greater
in the failure.
The commission says: No college
can now be succes Stu.y run on fees
alone. Higher education is becoming
more expensive all the time. Appli-
ances are now necessary which We're
not invented d generation ago, To b.
assured of pei manent existence ana
power to draw students a college must
possess some endowment. Numerous
agencies which stuuy colleges have
paced the minimum of productive en-
dOwmeLt which an institution must
have 10 guarantee permanency and eff
iiciencS at 100000 In the near fut-
IRE even this amount will De insuftl-
Client.
Endowment Small.
of the privately supported colleges
of Iowa only ten have endowment
funds exceeding the minimum figure
and four have no endowment at all.
The endowments of others range from
so 900 TO s165,O00."'
The COMM. sion doe" not specify
what institutions should be COMBINED.
1t says, however that institutional
competition in other states has already
forced few of the weaker institutions
out of existence or has led to consoli-
dtions. Similar results may in the
coulse of time occur in Iowa, the sd
ucatOrS said.
The enrolment Of Iowa colleges is
likely to continue TO increase for
number of years according 10 the com
mission report. This statement is based
on the following reasons: That the en-
ro.lment in the Iowa high schools has
been steadily increasing for the last
twenty years: Iowa is exceedingly
prosperous and places a high value on
education, as is shown by the fact tina;
its relative enrolment in the high
schools is next 10 the highest in the
country; its higher Institutions thru
extension activities and the develop
ment of vocational courses are now
making particularly strong appeal fog
patronage.
Show Increase in Attendance.
Continuing, the report says
''The second assumption is that with
out an increase in the population ue
the state, not now foreseen, the en-
rollment in higher institutions is likely
to become stable in the course of the
next two decades, probably increasing
slowly each year thereafter, but no
longer subject TO the rapid annual in
creases which prove so embarra ssinS
TO so many administrative officers and
which in the case of state institutions.
cause some apprehension in the minds
of legislators"
The commission says that Iowa is
second only TO Massachu setts in the
number of pupils III high schools, il.
pro portion to population.
The privately supported colleges Of
Iowa were founded and are still main
tanned by religious denominations.
Their denominatiOnal affiliations to-
gether with their total collegiate en-
rollment for the last year may be sum-
married. as follows: Five Methodist
colleges. 1850: three Presbyterian. 2l2;
TWO Baptist, 2SS; TWO Lutheran, 1861;
one Roman Catholic. 151; one Latter
Day Saints, "a one Friends, 1866; one
congregational, 10; one United Breth-