Show r i feo i iv What They Thought It'd Be Like on Campus Now Now i fc r V jr CPS GPS In 1964 Alvin Eurich then F and now the president of ora a consulting for Educational Educational Educational service called the Academy Development asked 16 eminent eminent emi- emi J i v nent to write what they J thought life on campus would be like in 1980 Eurich collected the essays in jf r r a modest paperback called Campus 1980 1950 which stands today as a testament testa- testa v r ment to just how hard it is to predict the future Among other speculations 5 fc y in the book quoted here verbatim t L x The Student Mood 1980 r- r r Cv The college generation of the was the last quiet one we will see in ina a along long t time me Alvin Eurich the books book's s editor Enrollment in 1980 Enrollment will rise sharply until 1980 and will continue upward thereafter but at a slower rate Federal Federal Federal Fed Fed- eral and nd state aid will increase sub sub- Sidney Tickton of the Academy for Educational Development Development Development Develop Develop- ment Curricula in 1980 Secondary schools will have enriched enriched enriched en en- riched their general-education general effort and students will come to college with witha a firm command of American and English En English English En En- glish literature American government government government govern govern- ment and international affairs Vocational training will gradually cease being a major preoccupation of undergraduate schools There will be a shift from disciplinary courses during the first several collegiate collegiate collegiate col col- col- col years to courses designed to help students expand their impulse life Lewis Mayhew a professor at Stanford then and nd now The Draft The World and Student Activism in 1980 The war in Vietnam will have quieted down owing to the efforts of a Republican president who argued that the war was was fine but too expensive expensive expensive sive and that in any case the boys should be brought home Nevertheless less a revolutionary situation will continue This m means ans that some kind of draft will probably still be bein bein bein in effect The whole universe of students will have moved and will be moving in inthe inthe inthe the direction pointed to be the student who are intending to tomajor tomajor tomajor major in social sciences and the humanities in increasing proportions and declining to major in science engineering engineering engineering en en- and business Business may have increasingly gre great t difficulty in recruiting the most talented young people Student activism will be flourishing flourishing flourishing flourish flourish- ing in 1980 not oI only ly because more students of the new breed will have been produced but because it will have many of the features of a successful successful successful suc suc- social movement A great interest in humanistic education will willbe willbe willbe be touched and realized the late Prof Nevitt Sanford of Stanford The Economy The price level for goods and services services ser ser- ser ser- vic vices s will average out to levels existing existing existing exist exist- ing in the fall of 1967 Tickton of the Academy for Educational Development Development Development Develop Develop- ment |