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gram and services so that our col
leges may prepare students to
meet fully the competition of rig
orous academic standards and vo-
cational requirements" Another
reference urged serious attention
TO functional educational empha-
SIS" -
The report was offered by Pres
ident Robert p. Daniel, Virginia
State College, Petersburg, chair
man; President w. Gore, Jr., Flor
ida A. and M. College, Tallahas-
see; and President j. T. Williams,
Maryland State College, Princess
Anne. 1t further endorsed the
Point -Four Program, initiation con-
troll and asked for a more demo-
cratic administration of federal
funds earmarked for use in the
land grant colleges.
Earlier in the conference At
lanta University's President Rufus
E. Clement, predicting the elimi-
nation of legal segregation within
a decade and a half, told the pres
idents that their colleges must
conform with the highest stand
ards of American education or
that they should prepare to close
the doors of those institutions.
The Atlanta educator foresaw
the day when institutions of high
er education now maintained ex-
clusively for the training of Ne
gro youth would enter the COM
petitive field of serving all youth
who may wish to seek training
within their facilities. He opposed
program expansion while stress
ing the strengthening of already
existant programs of training and
the employ of rigid academic
standards for students.
DR.. Clement took exception to
a position expressed by u. S.
Commissioner CT Education Earl
j. McGrath, who earlier in the
conference told the presidents that
they should alter their programs
IN order to meet the level of the
least capable student. The A. u.
president opinioned that such a
program would render both the
student and the institution inef-
fective in the increasingly COM
retitive area of American educa-
ton.
Commissioner McGrath termed
the United States world leader
in mass education but hastened
to add that even here too many
boys and girls, in all sections of
the nation, are denied adequate
programs of education. He point
ed to the need for additional
classrooms, teachers and other
tools of instruction. Federal aid
to education for the common
schools as we'll as institutions of
higher learning was urged to solve
these problems.
Supporting the workshop theme,
1.-The Emerging Role of Land
Grant Colleges for Negroes" the
conference heard other addresses
by President John w. Davis, West
Virginia State College; DR.. Wal
ter G. Daniel, specialist for higher
education, U. S. Office of Educa-
ton, as we'll as statements from
a list of individuals from various
governmental agencies and social
service organizations.
Among the visiting speakers
were Gardner Ackley, Office of
Price Sterilization; Elmer w.
Henderson, American Council on
Human Rights; Moss H. Hendrix,
National Education Association;
Mr.. Thomasina Johnson Norford
Department of Labor; DR.. E.
Franklin Frazier, Howard Uni
verslty; Ernest E. Neal, Tennes-
see Valley Authority; C. A. Bar
nett, Associated Negro Press;
and DR.. Henry G. Barnett, Point
-Four Program, Department of
State.
President E. B. Evans, Prairie
A. and M. College, Texas, was
elected president Of the confer
ence succeeding President C. V.
Troup of Fort Valley Georgia.
State College. President Clement
is the new conference vice presi-
dent. President FELTON, G. Clark,
Southern University, Baton Rouge,
La, treasurer, and President R.
g. Atwood, Kentucky State Col
lege, Frankfort, were reelected.
Two members were elected to
the executive committee, retiring