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23; 1953
PROPOSALFORSND! T0 INITIKI'E TWENTY-FIVE!!!
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House Bill Re. 3211, passed by the 1953 Legislature directed the Board of Control
or Higher Education in Florida to "comet a continmus study to determine:
(a) the immediate and future needs of the state in higher education, including
research and eervice: (b) whet institutional facilities are required to meet
these needs, and at which institution they can be best served; (c) educational
policies under which the institutions ehell operate; and (d) whether educational
policies prescribed by the Boerd or Control for the several institutions ere
being followed."
As e first step in implementing this directive, the Board of Control consulted
with the Southern Regional Education Board to detemim whet Florida might ex-
pect in the m of student land in higher education during the coming years.
It learned that by 1970, if eeomndc and migration trend rennin relatively con-
stent, Florida college enrollments of youth from 18 to 21 years of age any he
expected to increase from 26,096 to 914,000. This will mark an increase or
approximately 360 per cent in college enrollments. The cost of providing for
this greet increase will be staggering unless future developuents are planned
with the greatest vision and realism.
The Board of Control therefore views the legislative directive an calling for
it to explore every possible alternative to develop e system at higher education
that can absorb this high wave of future enrollments beueen the present and
1970. Its final answer taunt ensure Florida that the State in receiving the
highest quality or educational performance at the lowest possible cost for the
lergelt umber of citizens.
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The Board cities to search for the anner in a manner that, both in its sub-
stantive consideration and in the methods by which the study is conducted,
will make a major contribution to the theory and developnent of American hidier
education. In this light, the Board or Control is dewloping a program of
study and planning for a treaty-rive year projection of the needs and oppor-
tnnitiee to be not by ux-ids higher institutions in effectively serving their
constituency. The purposes of this prograa of stow and planning night be
generally stated as follows:
1. to create a projection of the possible future resource develop-
ment opportunities and problems of the State, with appropriate
reference to opportunities for service to Latin heriee and the
Southern United States.
2. To create a projection of the eccnunic, governnntsl, and 0111-
torel patterns which night he developed on the State's resource
base in appropriate relationship to Latin America and the
Southern United States.
3. To develop trends and projections or future population nora-
nents into and within the State.
14. To identify the types of scientific, professional, and lay
personnel needed in the State to achieve the optima develop-
ment of the resources and culture or the area.
5. To design the types or educational, research, and service pro-
gress shove the secondary school level which trill effectively
nest the needs of Florida citizens and achieve the optim-
devslopnent or the State.
6. To identify the institutional moments needed to loot the
State's education, research, and service needs with the highest
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quality programs at the lowest total cost for the largest ember
of Florida eitiaone. with due regard to the accessibility of
program offered in institutions in other Southern States.
l'o develop the neat effective arrangements for a long range
program or research and experiment on problems of currieulun,
teaching methods, adainistrative organization, and finance In!
the novoral institution.
To identify the most practical and effective machinery for con-
tinuous institutional coordination through cooperative planning
and development by adainietrative and faculty personnel of the
several institutions.
To identify the extent to which dieting institutional arrange-
ments and progrma correspond to the future needs for higher
education in Florida.
To calculate the financial boundaries within which the future
higher education needs for the State must he not, giving
adequate consideration to the public and private sources of
revenue.
To identify the priority step: which ahnuld be taken to develop
the long range prep-an and facilities needed by the State out
of the present higher education progran carving the State.
To determine the types of policies and procedures which should
he followed by the Board of Control to assure the effective
Mediate operation and low range development of the several
state institutions at the higxeat quality of performance to
meet the total needs of the State.
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The Board of Control expects to initiate and execute a progru oi study and
planning to achieve theee purposes through a procese which will involve insti-
tutional personnel and citioene of the atnte working cooperatively. In effect,
the effort to develop the baaio resource, cultural, and population data, and
the euhnequant derivation of educational needs from the data, will he a major
educational process for the State's institutional and lay leadornhip. It nhould
result in a Wenty-tive year mgr-n that is both acadmically sound and at the
one tine attuned to the realities of the work-W world faced by the people
of the State. It should also result in a program that has enthusiastic support
of the State's lay leaderahip and ite educational leaderehip.
organization at the Sta:
To provide naJor guidance for the preterm of etch and planning, the Board of
Control will appoint an Adviaory Council of four educators who have intimate
knowledge of the national come in varioue phones or institutional research,
organiaation, administration, and finance. The Board's Encutiw Secretary
will nerve as Mticio member or the Council. The Council will develop the
major Ironwork and procedures for the etudy and planning prograu within the
put-peace approved by the Board or Control.
Upon the reemncndation of the Advieory Council, the Board of Control will
appoint a Study Coordinator who will serve an the moutive ofcer oi the
entire enterprise, working under the general supervision of the Advieory
Council.
with appropriate clearances through the Presidents of norida'a atate supported
institutions, it ie expected that the various phones of the study and planning
program will be carried out throng: task forces combining college peroonnol, lay
leaders, and personnel from related public and private uenciee. ctional:
known consultants would he brought in to work with various tack forcca ea needed.
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