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Total enrollment in the nation’s
schools and colleges will drop
slightly again in the 1978-79
academic year, while total expendi
tures will increase by about $11 bil
lion, according to HEW’s National
Center for Education Statistics
(NCES).
In its annual “Back-to-School”
forecast, NCES indicates that some
59.8 million students will enroll this
fall in formal educational programs
from kindergarten through graduate
school. This represents a drop of
about 2.5 percent from the record
high enrollment of 61.3 reached in
the fall of 1975, and a decline of
about 1 percent from last year’s 60.3
million.
Total expenditures at all levels are
expected to exceed $155 billion in
1978-79 as compared to outlays of
$144 billion in the 1977-78 year.
Nearly 3.3 million people will be
employed as classroom teachers in
the coming year, while another
300,000 individuals will work as
superintendents, principals, super
visors and other instructional staff
members. Thus, education in the
fall of 1978 will directly involve 63.4
million Americans. In a nation with
a population exceeding 218 million,
this means that 3 of every 10 per
sons will be participants in the edu
cational process.
Different trends are apparent at
the various Educational levels. The
downward trend in elementary
school enrollment, first noted in
1969, is again evident. The number
of students enrolling in kindergar
ten through grade 8 will decline by
about 2 percent, from 33.2 to 32.6
million students.
Enrollment in grades 9 through
12 reached a neak in 1976, experi
enced a nominal decrease in 1977
and is expected to drop slightly
again this fall.
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College enrollment is expected to
reach a new high this fall and proba
bly will experience moderate annual
increases through the early 1980s.
Public and private colleges and uni
versities will enroll a total of 11.6
million students, a 3 percent in
crease from 11.3 million in 1977.
More than 2.4 million elementary
and secondary teachers will be in
volved in classroom instruction this
fall. This represents only a slight
change from last year, with minor
decreases at both the elemenatry
and secondary levels anticipated.
The total instructional staff at the
college level is estimated at
830,000—up 1 percent from the fall
of 1977.
Other highlights of the school
year include:
—In the last four years, the an
nual number of high school
graduates has remained near
3,150,000. No appreciable change is
anticipated in that figure for this
year’s high school graduating class.
—Colleges and universities will
set new records in 1978-79 as
bachelor degree recipients reach 1
million. In addition, higher educa
tion institutions will award 347,000
master’s degrees, 37,000 doctorates,
and 67,000 first-professional de
grees.
— Of the $155 billion estimated
expenditure in the coming year,
elementary and secondary schools
are expected to spend $100 billion,
while colleges and universities will
spend $55 billion. Public school and
college expenditures are estimated
at $127 billion, while privately con
trolled institutions will spend close
to $28 billion.
—Estimates based on Bureau of
the Census data, show that 92 per
cent of 5-year-olds (usual kindergar
ten age); 99 percent of 6-to 13-
year-olds (grades 1 through 8); 94
percent of 14-to 17-year-olds (grades
9 through 12); and 30 percent of
18-to 24-year-olds (college age) will
be enrolled in school this fall.
—There has been a continuing
decline in the pupil-teacher ratio in
public elementary and secondary
schools in recent years. The ratio
decreased from 23.7 in 1967 to 19.9
in the fall of 1977.
These "Back-to-School” statistics
are derived from surveys, estimates
and projections of the National Cen
ter for Education Statistics, a part of
the Education Division of the De
partment of Health, Education, and
Welfare. All figures are subject to
minor revision when final data be
comes available.
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Total expenditures by schools from kindergar
ten tlirough graduate school are expected to
exceed $155 million in 1978, an increase of
about $11 million over last year. Expenditures
are outlined above by source. In spite of the
increased expenditure, enrollment hasifc’
creased slightly from last year. (Source: (iB,
Department of Health, Education, andWdL
fare) ri1 '
Move opposed at Ai?M
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Tenure, or ten-year?f
By MICHELLE SCLDDER
Top Texas A6cM University ad
ministrators see only disadvantages
to abolishing tenure in favor of ten-
year renewable contracts. Texas
House Speaker Billy Clayton has re
cently propose the change and it may
be introduced when the legislature
convenes this spring.
“I don’t know of any advantages to
abolishing tenure,” said Texas A&M
Chancellor Jack Williams. "It would
be very difficult to hold professors.
Tenure is a clearly understood fact of
academic life.
"Without tenure Texas would be
pioneering in a field where pioneers
are not to be applauded,” he said.
Williams was Commissioner for
Higher Education for Texas before
he became president of Texas A6cM
in 1970. Williams also wrote the first
tenure policy, which was suggested
for adoption by all state universities.
That policy, with modification, is in
use now.
The Texas A&M Faculty-Staff
Handbook defines tenure as "the as
surance to an experienced faculty
member who has passed a probatio
nary period of service that he or she
may expect to continue in an
academic appointment unless funds
are no longer available or adequate
cause for dismissal is demonstrated
emit faculty from other i
and other states. ‘
Miller said the basic pn£iRei
that tenure is misunderstood |
"I think tenure is misi::: g,.
by legislators and the publiclljAli
they see it as a guarantee of;**
nent employment.” B
Chancellor Williams saidtBt
convinced that SpeakerC SI
misunderstands the concepti|tra\
Jack Williams
Chancellor,
Texas A&M
University System
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through established procedures of
due process.”
Dr. Haskell Monroe, dean of
faculties at Texas A&M, said
eliminating the tenure system would
be a disadvantage to the whole state.
“We would be the only state in the
union where tenure didn’t exist,” he
said. "We would appear anti
intellectual to outsiders without a
tenure system.”
Monroe said he thinks that
Speaker Clayton’s proposal would
not guarantee more efficiency.
Rather, he said, it would guarantee
that Texas would he pointed to na
tionally as a state to be avoided by
scholars.
Dr. Jarvis Miller, president of
Texas A&M, said, ‘‘Without tenure,
Texas A&M would be at a competi
tive disadvantage as we tried to re-
"He admires our education!|he!
Interested in our welfare, kipii
need to explain to him what it |Sci
all alxnit and why it is useOBe
“Perhaps he will alter his stanitijalK
we explain tenure. I)
Miller wouldn’t commeilB
Clayton’s proposal as a politsjjke'
sue, but be did say that is more! janu
that Clayton has a genuine ie’mm
that there is some problem w^fVe
present system. ou ^
“If the proposal moves
legislative process we woti/fruB
get the facts before themfc over
individual conferences amjBK
entations to their committee;,'wer
lersaid. “I think they needloloBe
the tenure system. K r
"I think we’re managingwB,
sonnel effectively at Texas Aft! ■a
would welcome an investigator
show that our system is
fork,
well,” he said. _ .
Miller said that twoadvanMd
tenure are that it f"’ 1 ' P '
thorough evaluation ofstaiMB
it imposes a deadline on tenii l 1 *^
sions. .
According to the Faculty*
tenure decisiona*®ii
Handbook, a
be made after a probationaryFfjr
of seven years.
Williams sees tenure as
of teaching." *i-eogf
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’A professor must havetheofl®
trinity to research in an atmospow
of freedom,” he said. IP
“We need protection fortJ B I
liance of the mind, an ^ ue . .n L
protect those whose calling J ^
the teacher because he is a
ploring, Williams sard. L
"Tenure is designed to f F
apply the First Amendment as
teaching is concerned.
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