Resources and Needs for Higher Education in Iowa, A Summary Report by Raymond C. Gibson, October 1960

(1960) Resources and Needs for Higher Education in Iowa, A Summary Report by Raymond C. Gibson, October 1960. Legislative Services Agency (Legislative Service Bureau)

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Abstract

Many current studies of higher education conducted on state-wide bases have had as their main concern the obtaining of a complete picture of the colleges or universities studied, from which projections into the future might be made by educational experts. These studies have been extensive surveys of -present enrollment, and projections of future enrollment; surveys of internal administration; surveys of faculty with emphases on educational status, numbers and needs for the future; and then through comparative and projective techniques, institution by institution throughout a state, a state-wide picture of higher education ·has been realized. Some directions were then set down for the future. A new direction for a study in higher education was taken recently by the Iowa Legislature through the Legislative Research Bureau. This study was authorized and funds were granted for it by the 1959 Iowa General Assembly. This new direction took the form of a basic needs study, one part of which was concerned with a study of manpower problems.