The people's voice., 1958-12-05

pace With top executives in other
lines.' They report to governing
boards. governors, and legislatures
that faculty salaries, to catch up with
1908, "would be $19,200," or. that
Russian professors in 1858 earned
eight times as much as Russian fac
tory workers compared with Ameri-
can professors one-and-one-half times
a U. S. factory workers pay). But
they do not impress. Instead, more
often than not, the peoples repre-
sentatives in the legislature, beset by
pressures and squeezed by revenue
systems geared to former days, look
to the university lobby as the most
persistent and unreasonable of them
all.
In between. falls the area of de-
cision for the future of society. 1t
is not surprising that the Summary
and Conclusions of report to the
Governors Conference on Higher Ed
ucation in the Forty Eight States in
1852 stated the case thus:
81. Public demand for the services
provided by institutions of higher
education will continue to mount; ex-
penditures of institutions of higher
education will continue to increase"
SO. Public funds will continue to
supply the major share of income re-
ceived by institutions of higher edu-
cation"
SO. Close coordination of the pro-
grams and activities of state institu-
tions of higher education is urgently
needed in order that available re-
sources and facilities may be utilized
most effectively"
SOME EARLIER REPORTS
The Montana Little Hoover Com
mission" subcommittee on higher edu-
cation in 1858 found three matters
of "first Importance" in its report on
higher education. They were:
1. Duplication among institutions.
2. Administration of the system of
higher education.
3. The Western interstate COM
pact (WICHE).
The WICHE program was approved.
But on organization and administra-
ton of the university system, the re-
port was unable to reach conclu-
sions." 1t recommended that further
study of the administrative structure
of the states system of higher educa-
ton be undertaken by a succeeding
interim legislative committee"
The words of the Mcconnell Nolan
Carleton report in 1900 are also pro-
Dhetic for the second half of the
twentieth century:
"The entire adjustment of the sys-
5em is in the hands of the State Board
If Education.
every institution is to be related
20 the University in the way that the
Board may indicate.
eff some general plan of manage
nent is not provided, if some central
is not effected, by which
he whole system may be wisely con-
rolled much energy will be lost from
ack of proper organization, and con-
lict of interest will arise that will
,e productive of evil.
1.-TWO of these evil results will be ,
duplication of work and !
ealousy in regard to the amount of !
appropriations allowed by the State !,
0 the different institutions"
The Montana Commission on High j
r Education" (19 members appoint t
d January. 1914, Frank P. Leiper, I
ilendive. chairman). voiced a SINH 5
ar theme in the opening sentence of. I
IS report: g
For many years serious problems c
ave been encountered in the organi- '
alton and administration of higher c
ducation in Montana" +
The first of eight Conclusions" by !
his body was to the effect that the !,
tx units "must be considered for all !
urposes as one university"
These considerations still weigh