Self Surveys By Colleges And Universities

with the departments and colleges themselves." The alumni of a distinguished secondary school are surveying its program, equipment, procedure, and results. Several endowed secondary schools are studying one another's methods of discovering and developing each pupil's personality and capacities. The president of an unendowed private school with elementary and professional courses pays for a special survey of personality, methods, and results of instructors, including his own method of supervising and developing teachers. City superintendents of public-school systems in Houston, Texas; Montpelier, Vermont; Jamestown, New York; Columbus, Ohio, and innumerable other places are conducting auto-surveys. State departments of education in Wisconsin, Connecticut, Alabama, Washington, and many other states are surveying county and city schools. Difficulties at several universities between faculties or individual instructors and trustees have led to surveys and reports of facts by the Association of American Professors. So rapidly has developed the demand for specific, helpful information regarding college needs and college opportunities that it is safe to prophesy that within ten years practically every one of America's 600 colleges and universities will be surveyed. The question is no longer shall we or shall we not have our college surveyed, but how thoroughly, how helpfully, and how continuously shall our college be surveyed. 2. Higher Education Surveys unde...