568 ADDRESSES AND STATE PAPERS

that the higher educational institutions of my State have devised,
and are continuing to experiment with, a variety of programs and
projects to meet this problem.

We are taking a serious look at current curricula and developing a
new set of intellectual and academic priorities which will prepare our
undergraduates not only to function in but to contribute to their
communities. Particular emphasis has been placed upon creating cur-
ricula in fields where professional personnel shortages are acute and
in areas that the academic community has long neglected — such as
law enforcement and police science.

In teacher education we are moving to institute attitude training
as a coequal partner of academic learning. The knowledge explosion
is so great that we cannot aspire to teach secure, technical truths but
we can provide our youth with the attitude to adopt and the aptitude
to learn through a mastery of the learning process. We are also pre-
paring our teachers to address the immediate social and environmental
problems of our day within the context of classroom routine. Prejudice
and pollution, crime and delinquency, narcotics and sex can be han-
dled skillfully and sensitively if our teachers are properly trained.

Finally, in Maryland, State government has won the cooperation of
the academic community in the creation of a Graduate Corps which
will unite graduate and undergraduate classroom work with work
experience in State administration. It is our hope that by providing
opportunity and exposure we will attract more of Maryland's talented
students to careers of public service.

This naturally leads into the third element of collegiate quality —
involvement in and contribution to the immediate community. Each
campus has the potential not only to cultivate its students' intellects
but to bring culture and thought stimulation to the total mature
community. By sponsoring informal lecture series, art shows, concerts
and theater productions, the college can become the cultural patron
of the community.

At the same time political, social and economic researchers can gain
by using their communities as living laboratories — and in turn their

discoveries may well bring increased insight, progress and reform to

the community.

Florida Memorial College has a great opportunity to create those
qualities as it constructs its new campus; and I would hope that it
would use this hiatus in its historical development to consider what