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Show ! Who should have higher education, how much, asks Taxpayers Assn. tual capacity can advantageously advantage-ously attend college. This is happening. College enrollment in the U.S. is increasing in-creasing at a substantial rate. In the 10 years from 1950 to 1960, enrollment jumped from 2,281,298 to 3,582,760. this is 57. Since 1955 the increncp There has been much discussion dis-cussion of late on increases in college enrollments. There are those who would have college education available to all. On the other hand certain leaders support the thesis that only those of "sufficient" intellec- is 887,000 or 34. We know full well that the upward trend will continue for some time tol come and that more and more of our young people will attend college. The commission of National j Goals estimates that college enrollments in the U.S. will double during the 1960's. This could be the case. The Commission Com-mission states that "the bill for higher education is going to e very very large in the years ahead." It is reasonable reason-able to expect more discussion of how the money is spent." The attitude toward college education varies from state to state. This is manifest in college col-lege enrollment figures. We fully realize that conditions and circumstances vary from place to place and that much inter-state migration exists. Here is the picture. In the United States as a whole, the ratio of pupils in college as measured by Fall enrollments enroll-ments 1960 was . 19.9 per 1,000 of total population according ac-cording to the Statistical Abstract. Ab-stract. The proportion varied trom 10.1 in Alaska to 37.6 in Utah. College Enrollment in Utah (Fall 1960) is not only the highest in the nation by long odds, but is also nearly double the national average. The respective re-spective figures are Utah 37.6 per 1,000 of total population popula-tion U.S. 19.9. For many years , Utah has maintained a similar position and relationship. relation-ship. We observe that the four states with highest ratio of college enrollments are all western states Utah 37.6, California 28.3, Colorado 27.1 and Arizona' 26.1. Then, Oregon Ore-gon 24.5 and Washington 23.1 are in the top ten. A real tribute to the West. We believe that any state can have both the quantity and guality of education is desires. de-sires. Incentive, ambition and zeal for education both individually in-dividually and collectively are even more important than wealth. Utah has demanstrated that she can, with her own resources, re-sources, maintain high quality of education. What Utah has done, others may also do. |