to train and educate our young people is shaping the destiny of our
great nation.

In each successive budget since I took office as Governor, the pro-
gram of public education in Maryland has been broadened, intensified
and accelerated. The result is that in just about every category of
measurement, Maryland holds a position of high rank in relationship
to the rest of the country. The budget which I am recommending to
you reflects the determination of this Administration to continue a
policy that has as its objectives a steady improvement in both the
quantity and the quality of the education that is offered in our public
school system.

HIGHER EDUCATION

This policy extends beyond the elementary and high school level
and into the area of public higher education. The aim of this Ad-
ministration to enlarge and strengthen our public institutions of
higher learning—the University of Maryland, the State colleges and
the community colleges—is evidenced in both the operational and
the capital budgets for fiscal 1965.

Last year you set up the machinery for the conversion of the five
State Teachers Colleges into colleges of the arts and sciences and
outlined a general plan for their utilization to meet the heavy de-
mands of an ever-increasing college enrollment. The conversion is
taking place, and in the budget I am recommending for fiscal 1965
there are appropriations which I believe will enable the Board of
Trustees of the State Colleges to launch a program under which
eventually these colleges will rank among the finest in the nation. I
have proposed a total allowance to these institutions, in general and
special funds, of $7, 589, 288. This represents an increase of $911, 224
over the appropriation of the current year. Most of the increase is
to be spent for new positions, additional books and science equip-
ment to sustain the additional enrollment and expand the liberal
arts program. Comparable increases have been allowed Morgan State
College to enable it to continue to strengthen its excellent instruc-
tional program. In total funds, I have proposed that Morgan be
allowed $3, 878, 579, an increase of $210, 291 over the appropriation for
this year.

The appropriation which I have recommended for the University
of Maryland is designed to permit that institution to grow at the
rapid pace the population explosion of our time demands and at the
same time to strengthen its programs of services to students and to

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