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You young people have demonstrated your faith in America, and
your hopes for its future, by the effort you have made here at this
college to refine your talents, to increase your knowledge and to
broaden your understanding. You will find that the rewards for your
efforts will be rich and enduring, whether you decide after this com-
mencement to embark immediately upon a vocation or to pursue your
formal studies further.
In congratulate all of you heartily on your achievements. May the
years ahead bring you a full measure of success and happiness.
ADDRESS, CHANGING STATE, REGIONAL AND FEDERAL
ROLES IN HIGHER EDUCATION: PLANNING AND
COORDINATION, THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE
SOUTHERN REGIONAL EDUCATION BOARD
MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA
June 22, 1965
One of the major problems facing all of us—governors, legislators,
college or university presidents, or simply interested citizens—is the
obvious need for coordinating higher education. As the number of
students, the number of institutions and the cost of higher education
increase, it becomes more and more important that the states does
something to insure effective planning. On the one hand we want to
be sure that we are fully meeting the needs of our people, and on
the other hand we also want to be sure that we are not engaging in
wasteful forms of duplication and competition between institutions.
At the present time two-thirds of the 50 states have established
some type of higher education planning and coordinating agency.
In our own SREB region 10 of the 15 states have such an agency
Maryland is one of the 10.
Maryland devoted a great deal of time and study to this program
before it established its present higher education coordinating agency.
We did studies of higher education as long ago as 1920, and since
then we have had no less than seven major studies of higher educa-
tion in the State. Nearly every one of these reports recommended
that the State establish some type of coordinating agency, but the
reports were not in full agreement concerning the type of agency
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