| Show McMurrin Says At Lecture Federal Aid Will Grow By SUE Chronicle Staff Writer aid is likely to grow rather than This statement was given Tuesday by Sterling M. professor of as a part of the weekly Tuesday lecture McMURRIN who recently resigned his post as United States Commissioner of stated that the public too often simplifies the question of higher education by saying aid to cation cannot help but result in federal or is no likelihood that federal aid will result in control because we already have federal aid with little evidence of he urged that citizens must and should be deeply concerned but he felt that the public is victimized by politicians who argue because of political alignments rather than the THE PROFESSOR of philosophy further said that there was no real disposition in Congress to give up the clear pattern that has been set for federal investments into education since would be difficult to find a voter in Congress who would be absolutely against all programs of aid to McMurrin reported that there were three major problems concerned with the a university must maintain its financial integrity so that it isn't totally dependent on the personnel problems are Appointment and status of faculty members that derive their income largely from government contracts strains relationships among the there is the problem of the impact of the government on There arises a question of whether federal aid distorts the program of instruction so that it neglects undergraduate work in favor of graduate or teaching in favor of or fine arts and physical sciences rather than other McMurrin reported that the federal expenditure at Utah for the 1961 fiscal year was McMurrin concluded his address with a quote from Harvard University stating that the university cannot withdraw from its obligations to the government and the but it must maintain its full integrity as an independent educational institution and not become an arm of the federal |
