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State University of Iowa Human Rights Committee first annual report and correspondence, 1963

Increasing the Quantity and Quality of Negro Enrollment in College Page 1

Increasing the Quantity and Quality of Negro Enrollment in College

As President of the National Scholarship Service and Fund for Negro Students, Richard Plaut has played an important part in the development of programs to assist Negroes and other underprivileged young people to acquire a higher education. Under his leadership, NSSFNS undertook a Community Talent Search Program which has helped potentially deprived children of all races to be identified early in their school lives and to be guided and aided toward a better education. In this article Mr. Plaut reviews and evaluates the work done by NSFFNS and others on the problem of increasing the quality and quantity of Negroes enrolling in college.
Mr. Plaut is the author of Blue Print for Talent Searching and has contributed many articles to the field of education.

RICHARD L. PLAUT
President
National Scholarship Service
and Fund For Negro Students

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A LITTLE OVER A DECADE AGO, there was little concern about how many or who went to college. The bulge then was thought of as temporary. As long as the G. I. bill paid expenses, as long as excess numbers could be quartered in Quonset huts, and as long as mature but impatient veterans did well academically, there were no insoluble problems--and the bulge did recede.
During the next five years it became apparent that the bulge would reappear, this time to stay, that needed federal aid for higher education might be a long time coming, and that colleges would need more permanent facilities to accommodate the anticipated rush. Problems arising in this situation

[Volume Thirty      Number 3     Summer 1960]

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Increasing the Quantity and Quality of Negro Enrollment in College As President of the National Scholarship Service and Fund for Negro Students, Richard Plaut has played an important part in the development of programs to assist Negroes and other underprivileged young people to acquire a higher education. Under his leadership, NSSFNS undertook a Community Talent Search Program which has helped potentially deprived children of all races to be identified early in their school lives and to be guided and aided toward a better education. In this article Mr. Plaut reviews and evaluates the work done by NSFFNS and others on the problem of increasing the quality and quantity of Negroes enrolling in college. Mr. Plaut is the author of Blue Print for Talent Searching and has contributed many articles to the field of education. RICHARD L. PLAUT President National Scholarship Service and Fund For Negro Students I A LITTLE OVER A DECADE AGO, there was little concern about how many or who went to college. The bulge then was thought of as temporary. As long as the G. I. bill paid expenses, as long as excess numbers could be quartered in Quonset huts, and as long as mature but impatient veterans did well academically, there were no insoluble problems--and the bulge did recede. During the next five years it became apparent that the bulge would reappear, this time to stay, that needed federal aid for higher education might be a long time coming, and that colleges would need more permanent facilities to accommodate the anticipated rush. Problems arising in this situation [Volume Thirty Number 3 Summer 1960]