Annual report University System of Georgia for the fiscal year 1951-52 [June 30, 1952]

ERSITY SYS F GEORGIA

ANNUAL REPORT
UNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF GEORGIA
For the Fiscal Year 1951-52
To His Excellency
HONORABLE HERMAN E. TALMADGE
Governor and the Members of the General Assembly

MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY SYSTI!M OF GEORGIA
June 30, 1952

ROBERT 0. ARNOLD CHARLES J. BLOCH CASON J. CALLAWAY EDGAR B. DUNLAP, SR. RUTHERFORD L. ELLIS FRANK D. FOLEY Roy V. HARRIS . MRS. WILLIAM T. HEALEY JOHN J. McDONOUGH C. L. Moss JAMES PETERSON FRANK M. SPRATLIN FRANCIS STUBBS, SR. CAREY WILLIAMS H. L. WINGATE

Covington Macon Hamilton . Gainesville Atlanta Columbus Augusta Atlanta Atlanta Calhoun Soperton Atlanta Douglas Greensboro Pelham

Term Expires
1956 1957 1958 1959 1954 1956 1958 1953 1957 1959 1955 1953 1957 1955 1954

Officers of the Board of Regents

ROBERT 0. ARNOLD . JOHN J. McDONOUGH . HARMON W. CALDWELL L. R. SIEBERT JAMES A. BLISSIT .

. Chairman Vice Chairman
. Chancellor Executive Secretary
. Treasurer

Regents of the University System of Georgia 20 Ivy Street, S. E. Atlanta 3

INSTITUTIONS OF THE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF GEORGIA

Senior Institutions

Athens Atlanta
Atlanta Augusta Dahlonega Milledgeville Statesboro Valdosta

University of Georgia.

. . 0. C. Aderhold, President

Atlanta Division of the University

of Georgia. .

. George M. Sparks, Director

Georgia Institute of Technology. . . Blake R. Van Leer, President

Medical College of Georgia.

. . G. Lombard Kelly, President

North Georgia College. .

. . Merritt E. Hoag, President

Georgia State College for Women.

. Guy H. Wells, President

Georgia Teachers College.

. . Zach S. Henderson, President

Valdosta State College.

. . J. Ralph Thaxton, President

Americus Carrollton Cochran Douglas Tifton

Junior Institutions

Georgia Southwestern College. .

. . Lloyd A. Moll. President

West Georgia College. .

I. S. Ingram, President

Middle Georgia College.

. ... L. E. Roberts, President

South Georgia College.

. .... William S. Smith, President

Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College.

George P. Donaldson, President

Albany Fort Valley Savannah

Negro Institutions

Albany State College .. Fort Valley State College. Savannah State College.

... Aaron Brown, President . ... C. V. Troup, President .... William K. Payne, President

- TABLE OF CONTENTS
GENERAL STATEMENT_________ ------------------------------------------------------- 5 Student Enrollment _________________________________ . ______ __ ______________ 5 Increased Appropriations ___ _________ _______ ___________ _____________________ 6 Building Program ___ ___________ _______ __________________________________________ 6 Removal of Fire Hazards-Repairs__________________________________________ 9 Strengthening of Faculties______________________________________________________ 10 Teaching and Research Programs____________ _______________________________ 12
Information for Citizens_------------------------------------------------------- 14
CHANGES IN PERSONNEL OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS AND THE
REGENTS' STAFF________________ .______________________________ _____________________ 16 FACULTIES OF THE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM_________ ________ _________________ 17
Ranks and Average Salaries of Faculty Members______________________ 18 Increases in Salaries since 194 8-4 9____________________ ______________________ 19 Degrees Held by Teachers in the University System__________________ 20 Workload of Faculty Members________________________________________________ 21 Regents' Policies Affecting Faculty Members____________________________ 24 Retirement for Non-Academic Employees________________________________ 25
NUMBER OF GRADUATES DURING 19 51-5 2__________________________ _____ 26
STUDENTS ____________________________ -------------------------------------------------- 29 Student Enroll ments _____________________ ------------------------------------------ 2 9 Breakdown of Resident Enrollment______________________ __ ______________ 3 2 Non -Residents of the State________ ---------------------------------------------- 32 Enrollment in Credit Courses Offered by Extension Divisions 33 Workshops and Saturday Classes__________________ ___ _______________________ 34 Commen ts on Enroll ments_______________ ------------------------------------- 34 Student Work and Activities__________ -------------------------------------- 35
INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAM -------------------------------------------------------- 37 Policies Regarding Curricula_________________________ --------------------------- 3 7 Academic Committees______________________________________________________________ 38 Counseling and Guidance____________________ ---------------------------------- 3 9

Table of ~ontents-:;;;-Continued
INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAM-Continued Accreditation ______________--------------------------------------------__________ ______ 4 1 Scholarships for Negro Students_____________________________________________ 4 2 Regional Education ______________ ------------------------------------------------- 4 2 Women Admitted to Georgia Tech________________________________________ 4 3
RESEARCH ____________________ ____________ ____ _______________ __________________________ 4 3 University of Georgia______________________________________________________________ 44
Georgia Institute of Technology---------------------------------------------- 4 5 Research Work at the Medical College and Other Institutions 46 L1BRARIES ____ ______ ________ _____ ______________ __ ____ ___ ____________ _______ ___ ____ __________ 4 9
PUBLIC SERVICES____________________ ---------------- ---------------------------------- 5 1 FINANCES __________ ----------------- ___ --------------- _---------------------------------- 55
Income of the University System____________________________________________ 55 Expenditures of the University System__________________________________ 5 8 Income Received by Institutions of the University System________ 60 Expenditures by Institutions of the University System____________ 67 PHYSICAL PLANTS_______________________ ---------------------------------------------- 72 Repairs and Improvements __ --------------------------------------------------- 72 New Construction Completed___________ -------------------------------------- 74 New Construction Under Way------------------------------------------------ 75 New Buildings Planned_____ ----------------------------------------------------- 76 Additional Buildings Needed ---------------------- ___________________________ 76 Properties Sold and Acquired __ ----------------------------------------------- 77 GIFTS ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 78 NEEDS OF THE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM__ -------------------------------------- 82 Operating Expenses _____________________ ----------------------------------------- 82 New Building Program ---------------------------------------------------------- 83 Repair Program ___ ------------------------------------------------------------------- 8 5 Total Amount Requested for 195 3-54 and 1954-55 _____________ 86
CONCLUSION -------------------------------------------------------------------- ______ __ 86

LIST OF TABLES
Ranks and Average Salaries of Faculty Members on a Nine Montbs' Basis---------------------------------------------------------------- 19
Comparison of Salaries in 19 48-49 and 19 51-5 2________________________ 20 Degrees Held by Teachers____________________________________________________________ 21
Workload of Teachers _______ ------------------------------------------------------- 22 Degrees ----------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------- 26 Diplomas and Certificates ----------------------------------------------------------- 28 Student Enrollment-Regular Session 195 1- 5 2__________________________ 29 195 1 Summer Enrollment__________________________________________________________ 30 Classification of Resident Enrollment__________________________________________ 3 2 Non-Resident Students________________________________________________________________ 33
Enrollment in Workshops and Special Classes, 19 51-5 2______________ 34 Library Statistics _________________________ ---------------------------------------------- 5 1 Sources of Income of the University System, 19 5 1-5 2________________ 56 Classification of Expenditures of the University System, 1951-52 59 Allocations of State Funds _________________________________________________________ 61
Allocations Per Student to University System Institutions, 19 51-5 2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 63
Statement of Educational and General Income for Year Ended June 30, 19 52_____________ ------------------------------------------------------ 64- 6 5
Percentage of Income Received by Institutions from Various Sources ------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________ 66
Percentage of Income Received by Institutions for Instruction______ 67 Percentage of Institutional Expenditures for Various Purposes____ 67 Statement of Educational and General Expenditures for
Year Ended June 30, 19 52__________________________________________________ 68- 69
Expenditures Per Equivalent Full-Time Student in Terms of Dollars ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 71
Gifts Received During 19 5 1-5 2 ------------------------------------------------- 78

REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF GEORGIA
ROBERT 0. ARNOLD, CHAIRMAN COVINGTON, GEORGIA
Honorable Herman E. Talmadge Governor, State of Georgia State Capitol Atlanta 3, Georgia My dear Governor Talmadge:
In accordance with the provision of Section 3 2-129 of the Code of
Georgia, I herewith submit to you a report concerning the activities of the University System of Georgia for the fiscal year beginning July l, 1951, and ending June 30, 1952.
Sincerely,
Robert 0. Arnold

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Artist's sketch of North Campus of University of Georgia showing new library in center background

- REPORT OF THE CHANCELLOR OF
THE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF GEORGIA 1951-52 ACADEMIC YEAR
To THE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS
OF THE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF GEORGIA:
I submit to you a report on some of the principal activities of the
University System of Georgia for the fiscal year beginning July 1.
1951 and ending June 30, 1952. The reports of the presidents of the several institutions of the
University System cover the details of the internal operations of the institutions. Some of these institutional reports are available to you in printed form; all of the institutional reports are on file in this office. This report will, for the most part, deal with the program and activities of the University System as a whole.
GENERAL STATEMENT
Before discussing in some detail the various phases of the operations of the University System, it would be well, perhaps, to make a general statement concerning major developments of the past fiscal year.
STUDENT ENROLLMENT
In accordance with our expectations, the student enrollment con-
tinued its downward trend. The cumulative enrollment during the regular session of 19 51-5 2 was 20,449. This figure is 17.7 per cent below the cumulative enrollment figure for 1950-51. The decline in the average enrollment was 16. 8 per cent.
The drop in enrollment was due largely to the fact that veteran students are completing their work and leaving the institutions in which they have been enrolled. The enrollment of veteran students in the regular session of 1951-52 was 3,792 as compared with a veteran enrollment of 7,204 in the corresponding session of 1950-51.
The non-veteran enrollment in the regular session of 1951-52 was 16,657 as compared with a non-veteran enrollment of 17,662 during 1950-51. The decrease in the enrollment of non-veteran students
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was approximately 5.7 per cent. The decline in the enrollment of students in this category is due to the'"' fact that many of the public schools of the State are in the process of establishing twelve year programs in place of the eleven year programs that they have heretofore had. During the year in which the transition is made, there is no graduating class. Of course, the Korean War situation and the requirements of the armed forces for the services of young men have had some effect on enrollments.
We believe that, barring unforeseen developments, the current decline in the student enrollment of the University System is at an end. The enrollment in the 1952-53 session should be approximately the same as in 19 51-5 2. After the 19 52-5 3 session there should be a gradual upward trend. By 1960 the student enrollment will, in all probability, be at least 50 per cent above the present level.
INCREASED APPROPRIATIONS
The Appropriation Act of the General Assembly that became effective on July 1, 1951 provided the University System of Georgia with the largest appropriation in its history. Under the regular and contingent sections of the Appropriation Act, the University System received from the State during 1951-52 the sum of $12,633,000.00. Of this amount, $400,000.00 was a special appropriation for the completion of the building housing the School of Veterinary Medicine. Payments during the 19 5 2-5 3 fiscal year will be on the basis of $12,233,000.00.
For the first time in many years, the institutions of the University System are receiving reasonably adequate State support. With this increased income, physical plants can be improved, faculties strengthened, and a better and more comprehensive service provided for the citizens of the State.
BUILDING PROGRAM
In the Annual Report for 1950-51 it was indicated that work was
going forward on fifteen buildings at various institutions of the System. The cost of these fifteen projects was estimated to be $11,028,343.00. During the 1951-52 fiscal year work on ten of these buildings was completed and the buildings are now in use.
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Work on five of the larger projects has n_ot yet been completed. Buildings that are still under construction are listed below.
University of Georgia Library Dormitory for Men Dormitory for Women
Georgia Institute of Technology Library
Georgia Teachers College Dormitory for Men
All of these buildings should be ready for occupancy within the next six months.
Since the last report contracts have been let for three major projects that were in the planning stage when the last report was submitted. These projects are a new central heating plant at the Georgia Institute of Technology costing $968,172.00, a dormitory for women at the Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College costing approximately $301,000.00, and a sewer collection system at the Savannah State College costing $181,827.00. Work on these three projects is now under way.
Plans have been completed for other buildings costing approximately $8.000,000.00. Contracts for the construction of these buildings have not b1?en let because it has been impossible to secure allotments of the steel needed for their erection. It is anticipated that circumstances will be such as to make possible the letting of contracts during the early part of 19 5 3.
In line with the policy of the Board of Regents to study carefully the needs of an institution before approving the erection of any building at that institution, the Board has continued to employ architects and engineers to study the physical plants of various schools of the System and to submit recommendations regarding new structures that an institution should have in order that it may be in a position to discharge properly the functions assigned to it. Careful surveys have been made of the physical plants of most of the institutions under the control of the Board and the findings and recommendations of the engineers are now in the hands of the Board. It is believed that every decision of the Board to erect a building on an institutional campus is supported by sound and valid reasons.
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REMOVAL OF FIRE HAZARDS - REPAIRS
The Board for many years has been greatly concerned over the fact that many of the buildings of the University System were in a deplorable state of repair. It has been even more concerned because some of the buildings in which students and faculty members worked were virtual fire-traps. After the State made a substantial increase in the appropriation to the University System, the Board of Regents immediately set about making plans for the elimination of fire hazards and for the making of extensive repairs and improvements in existing buildings.
The Office of the State Fire Marshal has cooperated with the Board of Regents by making a thorough inspection of every building in the University System and furnishing a statement as to what should be done in each building in order to bring it into compliance with the provisions of the Georgia Safety Fire Law. The original estimate of the cost of the work that would have to be done in order to carry out the recommendations of the State Fire Marshal was $3,250,000.00. The Board of Regents felt that, as a general policy, the elimination of fire hazards should have priority over other types of improvements. During the 1951-52 fiscal year the Board allotted $1,245,670.00 for work that will reduce fire hazards and make buildings reasonably safe for those who occupy them. It is hoped that all the recommendations of the State Fire Marshal can be made effective by the end of the 1953-54 fiscal year. This will require approximately $1,000,000.00 during each of the 1952-53 and 1953-54 fiscal years.
Because of the lack of proper maintenance of buildings in previous years, the University System is now faced with staggering deferred maintenance problems. Many roofs are leaking, buildings are unpainted, woodwork is rotten, heating and lighting systems need replacement. As nearly as can be estimated, the cost of putting the buildings of the University System into proper shape, over and above the cost of the removal of fire hazards, is $4,000,000.00. The institutions and the Board were able during the past year to make some progress toward the correction of these conditions. The institutions did major repair jobs costing approximately $400,000.00. Of this sum, $275,000.00 was spent by the Georgia Institute of Technology for the replacement of steam and electrical distribution lines serving various buildings on the campus. The old lines were in such poor condition that they were likely to fail at any time and their failure would have caused a temporary shut-down of the institution. It is
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apparent from the fact that all other institutions spent only $125,-
000.00 that they were able to do little-more than take care of routine
maintenance and minor repairs. The task of reconditioning the buildings of the University System is one with which the Board of Regents is still faced and it is an undertaking that will require a very substantial sum of money.
STRENGTHENING OF FACULTIES
Although adequate physical plants are necessary for the accomplishment of the purposes of the University System, the Board of Regents realizes that its primary responsibility is to provide the citizens of Georgia with thorough and comprehensive programs of teaching, research, and service in the various fields of collegiate and professional work. Such programs require competent and well-trained teachers and research workers as well as a staff of competent individuals who can carry directly to the people the knowledge and scientific information that will help them in meeting their everyday problems. The Board is striving in every way possible, therefore, to strengthen the faculties of the institutions of the University System and to see that every position is filled by a competent and well-qualified person.
One of the greatest difficulties with which the Board has been faced in the past sprang from the fact that the salary levels for teachers and workers in the System were lower than the salary levels in comparable institutions in most of the other Southern states. The Strayer Report in 1949 indicated that salaries in institutions of the University System were, on the average, about 11 per cent lower than those in comparable colleges and universities in other states of the South. The Strayer Report said that, as a result of this situation, "the competitive position of the University System as it relates to staffing for the future from the supply of trained men and women in the United States is poor. Unless there is a substantial adjustment, the University System cannot hope to maintain institutions of the first rank, but must-in futureexpect a decline in standards as present ability is replaced by mediocrity or less."
In order to improve its "competitive position" and to make more adequate provision for its faculty members and workers, the Board of Regents has made gradual increases in salaries throughout the Uni-
versity System. In 1951-52 salaries of faculty members in the Uni-
versity System were, on the average, approximately 20 per cent higher than they were in 1948-49, the year in which the Strayer Report was
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made. Of course, the salaries of some individuals have been increased more than 20 per cent, because of'outstanding work or because of promotion to higher ranks carrying higher salaries. A still further increase in average salaries was authorized by the Board for 19 52-5 3. The salary level in 19 5 2-5 3 will be at least 25 per cent higher than in 1948-49. It should be said, however, that these increases have hardly matched the increased cost of living. Although a few institutions in the South are paying salaries higher than those in the University System, our salaries are now at least equal to the average salaries in comparable Southern colleges and universities.
As a result of increased salaries, the institutions of the University System have been able to retain the services of exceptionally able men who otherwise would have been lost to the System. They have also been able to bring in new faculty members of outstanding ability. The result is that there is a steady improvement in the quality of the faculties of our institutions. In the Annual Report of the University of Georgia President Aderhold says: "The faculty of the University in terms of formal training is stronger today than at any time during the history of the institution.'' Georgia Tech reports that "the faculty for the present year has been improved in quality." Georgia Tech points out, however, that further improvement will be difficult to achieve unless more money and better facilities are made available to that institution. The reports of the presidents of practically all institutions indicate that there has been a decided improvement in faculty standards within the last two or three years.
In order to encourage improvement of the faculties, the Board has continued to follow a rather liberal policy in granting leaves with pay for advanced graduate study. Many faculty members have taken leaves for advanced work even though they received no compensation while away from their institutions. Approximately 278 members of University System faculties did some advanced work during the past year in order that they might become better qualified for their tasks. This figure represents more than one-fourth of the number on the teaching faculties of the System. The facts set forth indicate clearly that there is a strong desire on the part of faculty members to improve their professional qualifications.
In order that faculty members may know the standards that they must meet in order to become qualified for promotion or merit increases in salary, the Board during the past year, on the recommendation of the Advisory Council, prescribed the minimum qualifications for faculty members in the various ranks. The administrative officers
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of the System now have a statement of policies to guide them in recommending ranks for newly-employed teachers and in determining when promotions should be recommended for faculty members already employed. We believe that these policies are sound and that, if followed closely, will result in better morale among faculty members and in stronger faculties.
TEACHING AND RESEARCH PROGRAMS
The faculties of all institutions have continued to give careful thought to ways and means of improving their instructional programs. Studies are being made of the subject matter of courses and of ways in which that subject matter can be presented most effectively to students. In some cases, there have been complete revisions of the curricula or courses of study leading to certain degrees. For instance, the School of Pharmacy during the past year revised the curricula leading to the degree of Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy so as to provide students with a more unified program in the last three years.
As was pointed out in last year's Report, the junior colleges of the System had undertaken to eliminate from their curricula many courses that were essentially professional in their nature. It was thought that this would strengthen the basic educational programs of the junior colleges and at the same time facilitate the transfer of students to senior colleges without loss of credit. It was also pointed out in the Report for last year that the objectives that these changes were designed to accomplish could be fully attained only when the senior colleges had made certain revisions in their own curricula. The University of Georgia reports that the academic deans have completed the revisions in the University curricula that were necessary in order to coordinate University programs with those in the junior colleges. Similar reports have come from other senior colleges of the System.
The Negro colleges have continued their efforts to bring about a complete correlation of their respective functions and to establish a common core curriculum for the first two years of work that will provide all students with the facts and intellectual disciplines that every educated person should possess. The faculties of these three institutions are expected in the near future to approve certain comprehensive plans of curricular organization that have been worked out by their committees. Certain phases of these new plans will be submitted to the Board of Regents for consideration prior to the issuance of catalogues for the 195 3-5 4 session.
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The increased State support has made it possible for some of the institutions to inaugurate new programs of w~rk for which there has long been a need in the State. Both the University and the Georgia Institute of Technology have established new courses of study leading to graduate degrees that have not heretofore been offered. A new program that has received a great deal of attention throughout the South is that offered by the Georgia Institute of Technology in the field of city planning. It has been felt that, in view of the rapid growth of towns and cities of the South, more thought should be given to city planning so that the growth and expansion of urban areas would be in accordance with far-sighted and wisely-conceived policies. The program at Georgia Tech embraces both research in the field of city planning and the preparation of specialists in this field. The General Education Board has given its endorsement to this new program by providing a grant of $250,000.00 for its support over a period of six years.
Our faculties have recommended expansion in fields in which they have thought that expansion was needed and they have also recommended curtailments when they thought that curtailments were in order. As an illustration of the latter practice, the Georgia State College for Women has abandoned its program in distributive education. In a revision of its curricula, this institution during the past year dropped fifty-three courses that have heretofore appeared in its catalogue and that have been offered more or less regularly. The Fort Valley State College has given up work in business education. The degree work in this field will be given at Savannah only. The Fort Valley State College has also abandoned its major programs in chemistry, mathematics, English, and history. Albany and Savannah will take over the major programs in these fields. Fort Valley has, however, established a new major program in botany in support of its work in the field of agriculture. These curricular changes are typical of many that are being made throughout the System in order that there may be efficiency and high standards in our educational program and in order that this program may be fully responsive to new conditions and to the needs of the people of our State.
Increased income from the State has also made it possible for the Board of Regents to strengthen and expand programs of research. In accordance with plans made in the spring of 19 51, three new agricultural experiment substations were established at the beginning of the 19 51-5 2 fiscal year. Soils and climatic conditions vary greatly from one part of the State to another. Regardless of what the condi-
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tions may be in a particular area of the State, there is now an agricultural experiment station of some type in that area to help farmers with their problems and to point the way to sounder and more prosperous farm programs. A study of the budgc~s of the institutions will reveal that there is now more emphasis than ever before on various kinds of applied and fundamental research. The University System's expenditures for research alone during 1951-52 amounted to $2,970,736.00. This figure includes expenditures from funds appropriated by the federal government to Georgia for agricultural research work and more than $1,000,000.00 received by the Georgia Tech Engineering Experiment Station under contracts with agencies of the federal government. These expenditures represent, for the most part, an investment in greater knowledge about Georgia people, their problems, and ways to meet those problems. Such expenditures should over a period of years pay rich dividends in the form of material prosperity and an improved way of life.
lNFORMATION FOR CITIZENS
A university is potentially a great agency for public service-for service not only to its resident students but also to citizens in every business and occupation and in every walk of life. Unfortunately, there are many people who do not know the opportunities that are open to them through the colleges and universities that they support. The Board of Regents feels a responsibility not only for providing opportunities through the institutions under its control but also for acquainting the people of the State with the fact that those opportunities exist. During the past year the Board for the first time placed in the hands of every person graduating from high school a booklet describing the offerings of each institution of the System. Every Georgia high school graduate of I 9 52 has been given the opportunity to learn about the kinds of training that he can secure at each of the several schools and should, therefore, be in a better position to choose the one that best suits his own needs and preferences. The Division of General Extension and the Division of Agricultural Extension, through personal contacts, letters, and bulletins have made countless thousands of people acquainted with the institutes, short courses, and special services that are provided for their benefit. It is safe to say that the Division of Agricultural Extension alone had direct contact with more than 600,000 individuals. The institutions and experiment stations have reached additional thousands of adult citizens of the State. The University System can be of maximum value to the people of Georgia
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only when the people are fully informed about the services that the University System provides arid when tney utilize those services to the fullest extent possible. It behooves us, therefore, to make the light of knowledge and learning burn brightly and to give to all the opportunity to come within the rays of that light.
CHANGES IN PERSONNEL OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS AND THE REGENTS' STAFF
It has been the practice to report here changes in the personnel of the Board of Regents, in the personnel of the staff of the Regents' office, and in the presidencies of the institutions. The changes in personnel within institutions are listed in the reports of the presidents.
The terms of two members of the Board expired on January 1, 19 52. Those whose terms expired on this date were Mr. Roy N. Emmet of the Seventh Congressional District and General Sandy Beaver of the Ninth Congressional District.
Both Mr. Emmet and General Beaver rendered outstanding service as members of the Board of Regents and the State owes them a debt of gratitude for their contributions to the development of Georgia's system of higher education.
Mr. C. L. Moss of Calhoun was appointed by the Governor to succeed Mr. Emmet and Mr. Edgar B. Dunlap, Sr., of Gainesville was named as the successor to General Beaver. Both appointments were promptly confirmed by the State Senate.
The Strayer Report recommended the creation of a new position with the title of Assistant Chancellor for Instruction. The Report made the following comment about the qualifications and duties of the person chosen for this position:
"This staff member will be an experienced and highly qualified educational expert. He will have charge of curriculum development and modification and student guidance throughout the System."
The Board of Regents at its meeting in January 1952 elected Dr. Henry King Stanford to fill the position of Assistant Chancellor for Instruction. Dr. Stanford received his formal education at Emory University, the University of Heidelberg, the University of Denver, and New York University. He holds the A.B., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees. Before coming with the Board of Regents he held several
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other positions in educational work, including the directorship of the School of Public Administratior'i. of the University of Denver, the presidency of Georgia Southwestern College, and the directorship of the University Center in Georgia. Dr. Stanford's work will be with the teaching and research personnel of the System and with curricula and instructional programs.
The Strayer Report recommended the creation of a second position. It was said that the person holding this position should be general supervisor of the physical plants of the System and should deal with the institutions through their respective presidents. It was anticipated, of course, that these dealings would frequently be with plant officials representing the presidents. It was also recommended that this person assist in the determination of plant needs and in the planning of new buildings.
The Board asked Mr. J. H. Dewberry to assume the duties of this position with the title of Director of Plant and Business Operations. It was anticipated that Mr. Dewberry, in addition to the duties mentioned above, would assist with purchasing procedures and with the handling of the business operation of dining halls, dormitories, and other auxiliary enterprises. Mr. Dewberry served with the Board on a part-time basis during the spring of 19 5 2 and came with the Board on a full-time basis on July I, 1952. He received his educational training at the Georgia Teachers College and at Duke University. He served for several years as Business Manager and Treasurer of the Georgia State College for Women and, from 1947 to the time of his coming with the Board, was Comptroller of that institution.
There was no change in the presidency of any institution during 1951-52.
FACULTIES OF THE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM
The total number of faculty members in institutions of the University System, exclusive of the Medical College, was 1,008 during the 19 5 1-5 2 regular session. This figure does not include persons whose full salaries were paid from administrative budgets even though such persons may have done some teaching. It does not include faculty members in research stations, extension divisions, practice schools, or in libraries, when these persons devoted no time to the teaching of college students. Neither does it include part-time teachers, teaching assistants, and other teachers without faculty rank. The figure of 1,008 represents the number of faculty members who were carried in
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the instructional budgets and who were engaged in teaching and in individual research as distinguished fro~ the organized research programs handled through the various experiment stations.
The comparable figure for 1950-51 was 994. It is apparent that there were 14 more faculty members in institutions of the System during 19 51-5 2 than there were during 19 5 0-5 I. This increase is largely attributable to the fact that in a number of instances part-time teachers without faculty rank have been replaced by full-time teachers with faculty rank. For instance, the Annual Report for 1950-51 showed 75 faculty members in the Atlanta Division; the number of faculty members in 19 51-5 2 was IO I. This increase in faculty members was almost completely offset by a reduction in part-time teachers.
The total number of persons devoting full time to teaching work, in terms of full-time teachers and in terms of part-time teachers reduced to the basis of full-time equivalents, was 999.2 during the regular session of 19 51-5 2. Persons whose salaries were paid wholly from administrative budgets, part-time teachers without faculty rank, and teaching assistants carried a teaching load during the year equivalent to that which would be normally carried by 99.28 full-time teachers. If we deduct this figure from the 999.2, the total number of full-time equivalent teachers, we see that the 1,008 faculty members employed carried a teaching load that would ordinarily be carried by 900 fulltime teachers. This means that the time of 108 faculty members, in terms of full-time equivalents, was devoted to work of a non-teaching nature. This work consisted of individual research projects, committee assignments, institutes, short courses, and various types of public service. In view of the fact that this figure of 108 does not include any faculty members in the agricultural and engineering experiment stations nor in the Divisions of Agricultural and General Extension, there may be some question as to whether it should be as high as it is. This is a matter that should receive careful study by this office and by certain of the institutions.
RANKS AND AVERAGE SALARIES OF FACULTY MEMBERS
The following figures show the number of faculty members of various ranks at each of the institutions of the System. We are indicating the average salary for each rank and the average salary for all faculty members in each institution. The numbers of faculty members, as set forth in the following table, include faculty members in the institutional budgets for resident teaching. They do not include
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persons in budgets for administration, libraries, practice schools, research stations, or extension services, even-though many persons in these budgets have faculty rank. The figures on numbers of faculty members do not include part-time teachers and teaching assistants without faculty rank.

RANKS AND AVERAGE SALARIES OF FACULTY MEMBERS ON A NINE MONTHS' BASIS

Institution

Professors
Average No. Salary

University of Georgia. 97 $5,362

Atlanta Division, Uni-

versity of Georgia . 10 4,911

Georgia Institute of

Technology

65 5,853

North Georgia College 5 4.720

Georgia State College

for Women

18 5,075

Georgia Teachers College 6 4,8 I 6

Valdosta State College. 5 5,207

Associate Professors
Average No. Salary

Assistant Professors
Average No. Salary

75 $4,368 101 $3,811

All Instructors Ranks
Average Average No. Salary Salary
28 $3,047 $4,379

3 I 4.545 41 3,873 19 2,757 3,972

79 4,822 80 3,983 34 3,197 4,607 15 4,168 IO 3,6 I 0 I 3,350 4,05 I

24 3,904 I I 3,527 12 3,954 15 3,440 13 3,876 6 3,267

3 3,167 4,167

0

3,877

0

4,001

Georgia Southwestern College
West Georgia College. Middle Georgia College South Georgia College. Abraham Baldwin Agri-
cultural College

5 3,800 4 3,888 6 3,733 7 4,241
4 3,675

0 0
0 3 3,400

4 3,038 13 3,300
6 3,262 3 3,267

7 3,573 0

2 3,050 3,386

0

3,438

I 2,400 3,413

3 2,966 3,662

0

3,610

Albany State College Fort Valley State
College Savannah State College.

5 4,560
8 4,745 3 4,800

7 3,972
11 3,684 12 3,954

IO 3,220
18 3,084 26 3,354

10 2,773 3,454
8 2,688 3,455 18 2,952 3,427

Totals

248

289

344

127

As is indicated, the salaries set forth in the above table are for work during three quarters or nine months. A teacher who carried a full teaching load during the entire summer quarter received additional compensation equal to 30 per cent of his pay for the regular session of nine months.

INCREASES IN SALARIES SINCE 1948-49
As a matter of general information and also as a guide for the Regents and institutional officials in fixing salaries for the future, we are setting forth below a table that shows the average salary for all faculty members in each institution of the System during 1948-49,
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the corresponding figure for 1951-52, and the percentage of increase made during this three-year pe'riod. Thefigures represent the average salaries on a nine months' basis.

COMPARISON OF SALARIES IN 1948-49 AND 1951-52

Institution
University of Georgia Atlanta Division, University of Georgia.
Georgia Institute of Technology .. North Georgia College Georgia State College for Women. Georgia Teachers College Valdosta State College
Georgia Southwestern College West Georgia College Middle Georgia College South Georgia College Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College.
Albany State College Fort Valley State College Savannah State College
All Institutions

Average Salaries All Faculty Members

1948-49

1951-52

$3,728 3,438 3,673 3,578 3,468 3,051 3,532

$4,379 3,972 4,607 4,05 I 4,167 3,877 4,001

2,941 2,959 2,950 2,862 3,061

3,386 3,438 3,4 I 3 3,662 3,610

2,834 2,882 2,885

3,454 3,455 3,427

3,473

4,164

Percentage of Increase
17.5 15.5 25.4 13.2 20.2 27.1 13 .3
15. I 16.2 15. 7 27.9 17.9
21.8 19.9 18.9
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The above figures indicate some inequalities that can hardly be justified. These inequalities were corrected to some extent in the budgets for 1952-53. It was in an effort to equalize salaries in cases in which substantial equality was desirable that the Board asked certain institutions to revise the budgets that they first submitted. Some of these revisions were upward and some downward.
It will be understood, of course, that the figures set forth in the table above do not include the substantial salary increases that were approved for 1952-53.

DEGREES HELD BY TEACHERS IN THE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM
The following table indicates the number of faculty members in the institutions of the System who hold the doctor's degree or equivalent, the number who hold the master's degree or its equivalent, and the number who hold the bachelor's degree or its equivalent. Several mem hers of the faculty of the School of Veterinary Medicine of the University of Georgia who hold only the degree of Doctor of Veterinary Medicine have been included in the column headed "Master's Degree or Equivalent."
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DEGREES HELD BY TEACHERS

Institution

Ph.D. Degree or Equivalent

University of Georgia

121

Atlanta Division, University of Georgia. 32

Georgia Institute of Technology.

73

North Georgia College

10

Georgia State College for Women.

17

Georgia Teachers College

8

Valdosta State College

6

Georgia Southwestern College

0

West Georgia College

3

Middle Georgia College

0

South Georgia College

0

Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College

0

Albany State College

3

Fort Valley State College

5

Savannah State College

3

Totals

281

Master's Degree or Equivalent
146 57
139 18 37 24 18
11 12
9 12
7
26 33 45
594

Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent
34 12 46
3 2
1
0
0 2 4 4 4
3 7 11
133

During the past year the percentage of faculty members holding the doctor's degree or equivalent has increased from 24.2 per cent to 27.9 per cent. The number of those holding only a bachelor's degree or its equivalent has decreased from 15. 7 per cent to 13. 2 per cent.

WORKLOAD OF FACULTY MEMBERS
The figures in the following table show the average number of faculty members and others who taught in each institution during the 19 51- 5 2 regular session. From these figures we have excluded the time that faculty members devoted to non-teaching activities and we have included the teaching time of part-time teachers, teaching assistants, and other persons who were not faculty members. The figures are in terms of full-time equivalents.
The second column shows the average number of students per teacher. The figures in this column were derived by dividing the average student enrollment in each institution during the regular session by the average number of persons who taught. It will be observed that every institution was in compliance with the Standards of the Southern Association of Colleges regarding teacher-student ratios. The only institution that had more than twenty students per teacher was the Atlanta Division. That portion of the work of the Alanta Division that is at the junior college level is governed by the Standards
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applicable to junior colleges. The junior college Standards permit a maximum of twenty-five stude~ts for each instructor.
The third column shows the average number of teaching hours per week for faculty members in each institution. A faculty member ordinarily spends from two to three hours in preparation for each class. Hours devoted to preparation for classes and to other duties are not shown.
The fourth and last column shows the average number of quarter credit hours per teacher during the 195 1- 5 2 regular session. A course that meets five times each we2k for one quarter carries five quarter hours credit. If a teacher conducts such a course for twenty students, his teaching load for this course is one hundred quarter credit hours.

WORKLOAD OF TEACHERS

Institution

No.of Full-time Teachers or Equivalent

University of Georgia . Atlanta Division, University of Georgia
Georgia Institute of Technology
North Georgia College Georgia State College for
Women Georgia Teachers College Valdosta State College

265.7
130.7
262. 7 3 I. 2
5 2.9 33.9 22.8

Average No. of Students per Teacher
16
20.5
I 2.6 16.8
l 0.5 14 I 5. 9

Average Teaching per Week
13. I
13.1
11.8 14.2
I 2.3 I 3.5 14.3

Average Quarter Credit Hours per Teacher
245
307
226 284
164 229 261

Georgia Southwestern Col-

lege

11

14

13.9

247

West Georgia College

17

14.5

12.7

231

Middle Georgia College

13.4

11.4

14

195

Sou th Georgia College

15 .6

14.2

l 3.5

242

Abraham Baldwin Ag:icul-

tural College

12.G

16.7

13 .2

288

Albany State College Fort Valley State College Savannah State College

U.7 42. 5 C, 8. 5

I 5.4 14.5 I 5 .8

13. 7 12 12.7

278 242 288
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The total number of teachers in terms of full-time equivalents was 999.2 in 1951-52 as compared with 1,085 in 1950-51. This decline is attributable to a drop of 16.8 per cent in the average student enrollment during the regular session. It should be remembered that the above figures include only teachers of college students who were paid from institutional funds. The figures do not include practice school teachers who teach students at the elementary and secondary level nor do they include R.O.T.C. instructors whose salaries are paid by the federal government.

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Fcont entrance to campus of Georgia State College foe Women , Milledgevi//e

REGENTS' POLICIES. AFFECTJJ:-l'G FACULTY MEMBERS
During 1951-52, the Board of Regents adopted three statements of policy that have a direct bearing on the status of faculty members in institutions of the University System.
One of these policies deals with qualifications for faculty appointment and criteria for promotion. The institutions were grouped into three categories. The first category includes those at the university level with graduate programs, the second includes institutions with fouryear undergraduate programs, and the third category includes junior colleges. The Regents, acting upon recommendations of the Advisory Council of the University System, set forth the qualifications that persons should have in order to be eligible for initial appointments to the various faculty ranks in each of the three classes of institutions. The Regents also defined the standards that faculty members should meet in order to qualify for promotion from one rank to another within an institution. The Board did not seek to deprive administrative officers of institutions of the discretion that they should and must have in making recommendations for new appointments and promotions; it did seek, however, to establish standards that will aid administrators in the exercise of their discretion. It is hoped that these policies, as they are made effective, will strengthen institutional faculties and also bring about a greater uniformity of practice among institutions of the same class.
The second general policy adopted by the Board dealt with the matter of faculty tenure. The Board established a general policy that will henceforth be followed by all institutions of the System. The regulations regarding professors and associate professors are the same as before. New appointees to these ranks acquire permanent tenure after serving on a probationary basis for two years. All appointments to the ranks of assistant professor and instructor are on a year to year basis. Persons in these ranks cannot in the future acquire tenure. The Board's action did not, however, deprive any person in these ranks of tenure already acquired under former Board policies.
The third action of the Board of Regents dealt with retirement policies. In the past the compulsory age of retirement for administrative officers was 6 5 years; for teachers the compulsory retirement age was 70. Most of the institutions found that this plan did not work well. During the past year the Board established the age of 67 as the compulsory retirement age for both administrative officers and faculty
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members. Of course, a period of time was allowed for the making of the transition from the old plan to'the new. -
Under policies of the State Teachers Retirement Board, teachers and others covered by the State Teachers Retirement Law have been permitted to retire at age 60. Of course, teachers in the University System, since they are covered by the Retirement Law, have had the privilege of retiring at 60. The University System, however, has not given any supplementary allowance to a retired teacher unless he taught until he reached the compulsory age for retirement. Under the new policies of the Board, a teacher retiring at the permissive age of 60 or at any intermediate age may, if he has a sufficiently long period of service in the University System, receive a supplementary allowance from the University System as well as the retirement allowance to which he is entitled under the State Teachers Retirement Law.
RETIREMENT FOR NON-ACADEMIC EMPLOYEES
Although the Board has permitted institutions to make fairly generous provision under certain conditions for non-academic employees who have given up active work because of age or physical infirmities, the University System has never had a carefully planned retirement system for employees of this class. It has been the Board's opinion that, for a number of reasons, non-academic employees could be best cared for under the federal social security system. The Board was advised, however, that the General Assembly could not authorize nonacademic employees to take advantage of the provisions of the federal social security law unless the Constitution of the State of Georgia was amended so as to authorize the General Assembly to take this action. The Board, therefore, asked the General Assembly at its last session to submit to the people of the State a proposed Constitutional amendment that would allow the General Assembly to permit non-academic employees of the System to obtain social security coverage. It developed that there were other departments of the State that wanted such coverage for their own employees. The General Assembly, therefore, adopted a resolution that was broad in its scope and that would, if approved by the people, allow the General Assembly to place under the federal social security law various classes of State employees who were not covered by the State retirement system. The voters of the State at the general election in November 19 5 2 approved this proposed amendment to the Constitution. The General Assembly now has the authority to adopt legislation that will permit us to obtain federal
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social security coverage for our non-academic employees. The Board will make every effort possible to sedlre the passage of the needed legislation at the 19 5 3 session of the General Assembly.
NUMBER OF GRADUATES DURING 1951-52
It is the practice of some institutions to grant degrees and diplomas only at the end of the regular school year in June. Other institutions confer degrees and give diplomas and certificates both in June and at the end of the summer session in August. The following figures show the number of degrees conferred and the number of diplomas and certificates granted in August 19 51 and June 19 5 2.

DEGREES
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA Doctor of Philosophy Master of Science Master of Arts M. S. in Chemistry Master of Fine Arts M. S. in Agriculture M. S. in Agricultural Engineering Master of Agriculture .. M. S. in Forestry Master of Forestry Master of Music Education M. S. in Education Master of Education M. S. in Business Administration Master of Business Administration M. A. in Journalism M. S. in Home Economics Bachelor of Law Doctor of Veterinary Medicine Bachelor of Arts Bachelor of Science B. S. in Chemistry .. B. S. in Nursing Education Bachelor of Fine Arts B. S. in Pharmacy B. S. in Agriculture. B. S. in Agricultural Engineering Bachelor of Landscape Architecture B. S. in Landscape Architecture B. S. in Forestry B. S. in Education Bachelor of Business Administration B. A. in Journalism B. S. in Home Economics
ATLANTA DIVISION Bachelor of Business Administration Bachelor of Commercial Science
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4 12 20
1 10 24
2 1 1 2 2 8 102 6 11 4 5 52 45 121 103 5 15 56 45 160 23 2 12 47 282 236 59 83
1.5 6 I
187 154
341

DEGREES-Continued

GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Doctor of Philosophy Master of Science M. S. in Aeronautical Engineering M. S. in Chemical Engineering M. S. in Chemistry M. S. in Civil Engineering M. S. in Electrical Engineering M. S. in Engineering Mechanics M. S. in Industrial Engineering M. S. in Industrial Management M. S. in Applied Mathematics M. S. in Mechanical Engineering M. S. in Physics M. S. in Public Health M. S. in Sanitary Engineering M. S. in Textiles Bachelor of Aeronautical Engineering Bachelor of Architecture Bachelor of Ceramic Engineering Bachelor of Chemical Engineering Bachelor of Civil Engineering Bachelor of Electrical Engineering Bachelor of Industrial Engineering Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering Bachelor of Textile Engineering B. S. (Architecture) B. S. in Chemistry B. S. in Industrial Management B. S. in Physics B. S. in Textiles

MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA
Doctor of Medicine .. M. S. in Medical Art

NORTH GEORGIA COLLEGE

Bachelor of Arts

................ .

Bachelor of Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

GEORGIA STATE COLLEGE FOR WOMEN
Bachelor of Arts B. S. m Business Administration B. S. in Education B. S. in Home Economics B. S. m Music Education

GEORGIA TEACHERS COLLEGE B. S. in Education.

VALDOSTA STATE COLLEGE
Bachelor of Arts Bachelor of Science

ALBANY STATE COLLEGE
B. S. m Elementary Education B. S. in Home Economics B. S. in Secretarial Science

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5 7 4 3 5 5 8 I 10 8 2 10 2 2 2 5 30 41 10 87 87 158 123 99 13 78 2 160 14 50
1.031
76 2 78
8 107
115
51 25 145 36
2 259
252
29 54
83
127 18 6 I 51

DEGREES-Continued

FoRT VALLEY STATE COLLEGE
Bachelor of Arts Bachelor of Science B. S. in Agriculture B. S. in Business Administration B. S. m Education B. S. in Home Economics
SAVANNAH STATE COLLEGE
B. S. in Agriculture B. S. m Biology B. S. in Business Administration B. S. in Chemistry B. S. in Elementary Education B. S. in Fine Arts B. S. in General Science B. S. in Home Economics B. S. in Industrial Education B. S. in Languages B. S. in Mathematics B. S. in Physical Education B. S. in Social Science ...

..........

Total Num~r of Degrees Conferred.

1
9 21
7
153
18
209
2
6
1 1 2
92 5 2
18 11 8
8 16
32 213
4,293

DIPLOMAS AND CERTIFICATES
ATLANTA DIVISION OF THE UNIVERSITY Two-year Diplomas
GEORGIA STATE COLLEGE FOR WOMEN Two-year Certificates in Business Administration ..
SAVANNAH STATE COLLEGE Two-year Certificates in Trades.
GEORGIA SOUTHWESTERN COLLEGE Two-year Diplomas One-year Secretarial Certificates
WEST GEORGIA COLLEGE Two-year Diplomas and Certificates
MIDDLE GEORGIA COLLEGE Two-year Diplomas and Certificates
SOUTH GEORGIA COLLEGE Two-year Diplomas
ABRAHAM BALDWIN AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE Two-year Diplomas
SOUTHERN TECHNICAL INSTITUTE Two-year Diplomas
Total Number of Diplomas and Ceritficates.
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50
10
48
79 7 86 114
79
72
76
155 690

The total number of degrees conferred during 1951-52 was 4,293. The comparable figure for 19 5 Cl-51 was '!I-, 916. The decrease was 623 or 12.7 per cent. The number of diplomas and certificates granted during 19 51-5 2 was 69 0. The comparable figure for 19 5 0-51 was 865. There was a decrease of 175 or 20.2 per cent.

STUDENTS
STUDENT ENROLLMENTS
The figures in the following table show the cumulative and average student enrollments in the institutions of the University System for the regular 19 51-5 2 academic year, consisting of the fall, winter, and spring quarters. The figures in the first column represent the total number of individual students enrolled; the figures in the second column represent average enrollment in terms of full-time students. The average enrollment of the Atlanta Division in terms of full-time students is very much lower than the cumulative enrollment because it has many part-time students.

STUDENT ENROLLMENT - REGULAR SESSION 1951-52

Institution
University of Georgia Atlanta Division, University of Georgia ..
Georgia Institute of Technology. Medical College of Georgia North Georgia College Georgia State College for Women. Georgia Teachers College .. Valdosta State College

Cumulative Enrollment
5,037 5,2 I 6 4,022
333 597 617 584 425

Average Enrollment
4,239 2,412 1 3,323
326 526 553 474 362

Georgia Southwestern College West Georgia College Middle Georgia College South Georgia College Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College

179

154

290

246

185

152

293

221

306

210

Albany State College . . . .
Fort Valley State College Savannah State College

546

471

679

616

1.140

927

Totals.

20,449

15,312

1Computed in terms of full-time equivalent students on basis that a full-time student is one who takes 16 2/:1 hours per quarter. The quarterly average in terms of individual students, full-time and part-time, was 3,699.

During the preceding year of 19 50-51 the cumulative enrollment was 24,866. The drop in the cumulative enrollment was 4,417 or

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17.7 per cent. During 1950-51 the average enrollment was 18,417. The average enrollment in 19 51-5 2 was 15,312. This represents a decrease of 3,105 students or a drop of 16.8 per cent. Since the percentage drop in the average enrollment was less than the percentage drop in cumulative enrollment, it is apparent that students who registered during 19 51- 5 2 remained in school for a slightly longer average period than during 19 50- 51.
The figures in the following table show the cumulative enrollments during the first and second sessions of the 1951 summer quarter. These figures do not include students in off-campus workshops. As is indicated, two institutions offered no courses during the summer and two institutions offered courses during the first session only. Georgia Tech conducted classes throughout the summer quarter but it does not follow the practice of dividing its summer program into two sessions. Georgia Tech's enrollment was, therefore, the same throughout the quarter.

19 51 SUMMER ENROLLMENT

Institution
University of Georgia Atlanta Division. University of Georgia1
Georgia Institute of Technology Medical College of Georgia North Georgia College Georgia State College for Women Georgia Teachers College Valdosta State College

First Session
2.795 2,184 1,638
0 306 639 968 315

Second Session
1,743 557
1,638 0
327 493 83 7
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Georgia Southwestern College West Georgia College Middle Georgia College South Georgia College Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College

54

0

248

0

34

0

0

0

64

44

Albany State College Fort Valley State College Savannah State College

492

383

940

750

1,005

767

Totals.

11.682

7,565

lFigures for the Atlanta Division represent number of individual students, including full-time and part-time. No translation has been made into terms of full-time equivalent students.

A comparison of the above figures with those for the summer session of 1950 will reveal that there was about the same percentage decline in the enrollments for summer quarter as for the regular session of 1951-52.

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Aerial view of Georgia Teachers College at Statesboro

BREAKDOWN OF RESIDENT ENROLLMENT
The figures set forth in the following table give a breakdown of the cumulative enrollment for the regular session as between men and women and veterans and non-veterans.

CLASSIFICATION OF RESIDENT ENROLLMENT

Institution
University of Georgia Atlanta Division of the University
Georgia Institute of Technology Medical College of Georgia North Georgia College Georgia State College for Women. Georgia Teachers College Valdosta State College
Georgia Southwestern College West Georgia College Middle Georgia College South Georgia College Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College
Albanr State College Fort Valley State College Savannah State College
Totals

Men
3,461 3,391 4.022
317 437
1 264 128
89 15 3 128 186 239
123 253 517
13,709

Women
1,576 1.825
0 16 160 616 320 297
90 137 57 107
67
42'3 426 623
6,740

Vete7ans
914 1.724
600 76 16 1 56 30

NonVeterans
4.12 3 3.492 3.422
257 581 616 528 395

6

173

26

264

9

176

21

272

4

302

25

521

47

632

237

903

'> 792 16.65 7

A comparison of the above figures with corresponding figures for the previous year will show that the enrollment of men students during the regular session declined approximately 21 per cent while the decline in women students was only slightly more than IO per cent. The heavier decline in men students was due almost entirely to the fact that veteran students who left the System consisted almost entirely of men.
A similar comparison will show that the decline in veteran students amounted to 47.5 per cent while the decline in non-veteran students was only 5.7 per cent.

NON-RESIDENTS OF THE STATE
The figures in the following table show the total number of students from other states and from foreign countries who were registered in institutions of the System during the regular nine months' session of 1951-52.
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NON-RESIDENT STUDENTS

University of Georgia .............. -~ ...... . Atlanta Division of the University
Georgia Institute of Technology ...... . Medical College of Georgia ................. . North Georgia College ................... . Georgia State College for Women. . ........ . Georgia Teachers College ................... . Valdosta State College ..................... .

Georgia Southwestern College .

West Georgia College ..................... .

Middle Georgia College

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

South Georgia College

....... .

Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College

Albany State College Fort Valley State College Savannah State College

797 12
1.995 0 4
13 11
4
1 0 6 5 5
23 5 8

Total.

2.889

ENROLLMENT IN CREDIT COURSES OFFERED BY

EXTENSION DIVISIONS
Both the University of Georgia and the Georgia Institute of Technology operate divisions of general extension. These divisions conduct many institutes and short courses that are attended by thousands of people each year. Work of this sort carries no academic credit and it is, therefore, discussed in this report under the head of Public Services.

The extension divisions do offer some work for academic credit. The Standards of the Southern Association permit one year of work toward a degree to be done by extension. The cumulative enrollments m vanous credit courses offered by the extension divisions were as follows:

UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA Extension Centers Columbus .. Gainesville Rome .... Waycross .. Marietta .. Columbus (Negro)

Regular Session Summer 1951

375

184

170

130

333

167

383

255

247

01

125

622

Subtotals .............. .
Extension Classes ...... , ....... . Correspondence Courses

1,633
715 1,393

798
74 1.117

Totals.

. ........ .

GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Evening School .......... . Southern Technical Institute ..

3,741
1.542 510

1.989
649 407

Totals

2,052

1,056

1The Marietta Center did not begin operations until September 1951.

2The Columbus Center for Negro students is under the jurisdiction of the Division of General

Extension of the University but its work is supervised by the Albany State College.

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WORKSHOPS AND SATURDAY CLASSES
Some institutions conduct special Saturday classes for teachers in the schools of the State. Others conduct special classes in the evenings for adults. Some institutions also conduct workshops in various parts of the State for teachers. All of these courses are treated as courses in residence and carry full academic credit. The University of Georgia, in cooperation with Emory University, continued to provide instruction for teachers in the Atlanta area through the Atlanta Area Teacher Education Service. The total number of individuals registered in the various programs of this type during 1951-52 are shown in the following figures:

ENROLLMENT IN WORKSHOPS AND SPECIAL CLASSES, 19 5 I -52

Institution
University of Georgia North Georgia College Georgia State College for Women Georgia Teachers College Valdosta State College
Georgia Southwestern College Middle Georgia College ..
Albany State College Fort Valley State College Savannah State College
Totals.

Saturday and
Evening Classes
162 67
125 260
85
14 47
519 488 175
1,942

Workshops
0 86 513 65
0
0 0
209 0
16
889

Atlanta Area
Service
370 0 0 0 0
0 0
0 0 0
370

COMMENTS ON ENROLLMENTS
It is apparent from enrollment figures that, during the 1951-52 regular session, more than 26,500 individuals took some type of credit courses in institutions of the University System and that not less than 14,700 students registered for some form of credit courses during the 19 51 summer session.
These figures are somewhat lower than the comparable figures for 19 5 0-51. In fact, there has been a decline each year since the peak year of 1948-49. The reasons for this decline were discussed in the Annual Report for 1950-51. The chief reason for the drop in enrollment has been the fact that veteran students who attended college at government expense have been finishing their work and leaving college. A second important reason lies in the fact that for the past two years
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many school systems in Georgia have been-5hifting from eleven to twelve year programs and have graduated no students during the year in which the shift was made. A third reason is that colleges have been feeling the effects of the low birthrate in the early 1930's.
There is reason to believe that the bottom of the downward trend has been reached. The enrollments for 1952-53 should be substantially the same as for 1951-52. It is probable that after 1953-54 there will be a decided upward trend in college enrollments that will continue until new peaks are reached within the next six or seven years.
STUDENT WORK AND ACTIVITIES
Academic Work. The academic work of students during the past year was quite satisfactory. Most of the presidents report that the quality of the academic work of students during 19 51-5 2 was superior to that of the preceding year. They attribute this improvement largely to more serious efforts on the part of instructors to make their teaching interesting, inspiring, and effective and to the efforts of student counselors to work more closely with students and to assist them in developing more constructive attitudes toward college life and life in general. Although academic standards are gradually being raised in most institutions and although students who are unable to meet these standards are excluded, it is gratifying to know that the :number of exclusions was no higher than in"J:he preceding year.
Student Conduct. In spite of a few incidents that received wide
publicity, the consensus of opinion is that _stud~nt conduct was uhusually good. The only institution at which the number of suspensions for misconduct was materially higher than during 1950-51 was the University in Athens. The University suspended fifty students for disciplinary reasons. This is twice the number suspended in the preceding year. A number of the University suspensions resulted from the "pantie raid" that received a Considerable amount of poblicity. The following statement by President Donaldson of Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College is typical of those of most of the preside-nts: "The general attitude of the entire student body tefle-cted good citizenship and a desire to comply with the rules and regulations of the institution."
Financial Needs of -Students. ft is appa.rent from a study of the
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institutional reports that approximatel'y one-third of the students now in college need some form of financial aid in order to continue .their college work. The number of students applying for part-time jobs
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and loans increased materialJy during_the past year. Hundreds of students were assisted with loans and part-time jobs in institutional work. Institutions were able to assist many other students in securing jobs in the towns in which the institutions are located. In spite of these efforts, it is certain that at least three hundred students left college because of lack of money. The number of able and deserving high school graduates who never enter college because of lack of financial resources would probably run into the thousands. A democratic state should find some way of providing the opportunities of a college education to all who can, through such an education, become better and more useful citizens.
Student Activities. All schools of the System continued to conduct wide and varied programs of extracurricular activities for their students. There were bands, orchestras, and glee clubs for those with musical inclinations. There were literary societies and debating teams for those wishing to develop the art of public speaking. Student publications provided opportunities for many students to gain a practical knowledge of various phases of journalism. Student government organizations and political clubs afforded students channels through which to express their civic interests. Fraternities, sororities, and various other organizations made real contributions toward the creation and maintenance of a wholesome and interesting social life for students. These activities, and many others of a like nature, were conducted by students, but they were closely supervised by institutional officials and faculty members. It is our belief that activities of this sort have a genuine educational value and that they contribute to the well-rounded development of the individual.
Extracurricular Services for Students. In addition to the formal instructional programs, the institutions provided many other services for students. Every institution is attempting to broaden and strengthen its program of student counseling and guidance. Sympathetic and carefully trained counselors advise with students on their personal problems, their vocational or occupational interests, their choices of courses of study, and any difficulties that they may have with their academic work. All institutions of the System have good programs of intramural athletics. In a few institutions the facilities for programs of this type need to be improved. All schools provide some type of medical service and hospital care for students. The annual physical examinations reveal, in many cases, the need for corrective treatments of ailments of which the students were previously unaware. We owe a debt of gratitude to the State Department of Health for its assistance
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in making blood tests and x-rays for students and faculty members and in providing other helpful services. -
All schools recognize the value of religion and are at all times conscious of the place that it ought to occupy in the life of an individual and in the life of a people. Regular religious services of a nondenominational character are conducted throughout the year. Usually there is some particular period during the year when special emphasis is placed on discussions of religious and spiritual matters. Church leaders of various denominations and faiths are invited to the campuses to speak to the students and to confer with students about their personal religious problems. And, of course, all institutions have continued to follow the policy of cooperating with local churches in an effort to provide an atmosphere for students that fosters and encourages spiritual growth.
It is evident that the institutions of the University System recognize all the needs of the individual who is on the threshold of adult life and that they are striving in every way possible to provide adequately for those needs.
INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAM
POLICIES REGARDING CURRICULA
The Board of Regents defines the educational objectives and the scope of the educational program of each institution of the University System. The faculty of an institution is responsible for the setting up of curricula or courses of study that will accomplish the objectives established by the Board of Regents for that institution.
The faculties of the several institutions study constantly their various curricula and endeavor to adjust them from time to time so that they will always be in line with new developments and with the best in current educational thought. Each year there are scores of adjustments and changes in curricular patterns. The Office of the Board of Regents is informed of these changes as they are made. In some instances, the proposed changes are discussed with representatives of the institutions but the staff of the Regents' office makes no effort to interfere with actions of the faculties unless the curricular changes involve a departure from the program approved by the Regents for an institution, unless they create a needless duplication of effort within the University System, or unless the actions of a faculty are manifestly unwarranted.
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Some of the more important curricular adjustments made during 19 51-5 2 were mentioned in the opening pages of this report. No good purpose would be served by undertaking here to describe the changes in detail.
ACADEMIC COMMITTEES
Since to a considerable extent the curricular problems of the various institutions of the University System are the same and since the various faculties are faced with many questions that are common to all institutions, it is advisable that representatives of the faculties of the several institutions come together from time to time for the purpose of sharing their experiences, exchanging their thoughts, and planning together for curricular development in certain fields that are common to several or all institutions. In the early years of the University System, there was established in each of several academic fields a committee whose membership was drawn from teachers working in that field in institutions of the System. Some of these University System academic committees undertook to establish rather rigid policies on curricular matters and insisted that- these policies be binding on all institutions. The institutional faculties frequently resented such actions on the part of the University System committees and regarded the actions as invasions of institutional and faculty prerogatives. As a consequence, there was often no disposition on the part of institutions to cooperate with these committees or to carry out their policies. The plan of holding such academic committee meetings fell into disfavor and, in some fields, was abandoned entirely. Thus there were lost to the University System and the institutions some very real benefits that can come from institutional cooperation and from a working together on common problems.
In a few fields the practice of holding an informal occasional meeting of representatives from various institutions has been continued. Teachers of home economics and teachers of the physical sciences have come together from time to time. The Advisory Council of the University System has felt that there should be more opportunities for the academic people in a particular field of work within the System to meet and think together about their programs of work and about ways for improving those programs. During the past year the Advisory Council made definite provision for the setting up of Univer-
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sity System-wide committees in the fields of physical science-mathema tics, biological scince, social science, numanities, and business administration. Each institution has appointed one or more representatives on each of these committees. Meetings of some of the committees have already been held. Dr. Henry K. Stanford will work closely with the academic committees. The work of these committees can be of great value to the institutions and to the general effort to provide through the institutions of the University System instruction of the highest quality. These committees must carefully avoid some of the mistakes that destroyed their effectiveness in the past.
COUNSELING AND GUIDANCE
Although each institution has a program of testing, counseling, and guidance for students, there is little correlation of their efforts in this field and, in some instances, there is room for considerable improvement in the institutional programs.
It was pointed out in the Annual Report for 1951-52 that a committee had been appointed to make recommendations for the establishment of a uniform testing and guidance program. This committee, under the leadership of Dr. Joseph E. Moore of Georgia Tech as Chairman, has, after long study, prepared a comprehensive plan for testing and guidance of students of the University System. The plan provides for tests for high school seniors also and makes provision for the coordination of the high school program with that of the University System. The recommendations of this committee will be submitted to the Advisory Council at an early date. If approved by the Council. they will be laid before the Board of Regents. If this program can be made effective, we believe that it will be of inestimable value to students. It will assist them in deciding whether to go to college, in determining the college they should attend, in choosing the career and type of education they want, and in selecting the courses of study that they need and that will best qualify them for the work they want to do. This system will also provide teachers and institutional officials with better information concerning the effectiveness of teaching and the progress that students are making. It will provide counselors with the information that they need in order to advise students intelligently and wisely. We hope that this program may soon be in operation in the institutions of the System.
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- ACCREDITATION

It

was said

in

the

Annual

. Report

for

l 951-5 2 that

the

Albany

State College, the Fort Valley State College, and the Savannah State

College were fully accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges

and Secondary Schools at its meeting in the fall of 19 51. Since this

action was actually taken during the 19 5 1-52 fiscal year, it is reported

here again.

In the Annual Report for last year it was pointed out that the School of Forestry of the University of Georgia had been given provisional accreditation by The American Society of Foresters. Largely as a result of the Regents' new administrative organization of agricultural and forestry work in the University System, the School of Forestry during the past year was able to improve and strengthen its program. In August 19 52 the School was notified by the Council of The American Society of Foresters that the Council had voted unanimously that the School of Forestry of the University of Georgia be fully accredited.

A committee of the Southern Association of Colleges made an inspection of the Atlanta Division of the University of Georgia in the spring of 19 5 2. At its meeting in the fall of 19 5 2 the Southern Association extended the accreditation of the University of Georgia to include the Atlanta Division. Should the Board of Regents, for any reason, ever decide to give an independent status to the Atlanta Division, it would then be necessary for the institution to seek accreditation in its own right.

The only institution in the System that is not now accredited by the Southern Association is the Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College at Tifton. President Donaldson has submitted a formal application for accreditation of his institution. This was considered at the meeting of the Association in the fall of 19 5 2 and, under the procedures of the Association, will probably be acted upon by the Association at its 19 5 3 meeting. We have every reason to believe that the action will be favorable.

During the year the Regents were notified by the Council on Education of the American Veterinary Medical Association that the School of Veterinary Medicine of the University of Georgia was being continued "on public probation." The grounds of complaint were rapid turnover in the faculty, faculty of insufficient size, and high faculty ranks for inexperienced teachers. This School is still in the develop-

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mental stage. We believe that all conditions of which criticism has been made can be corrected in rhe near future.
SCHOLARSHIPS FOR NEGRO STUDENTS
The Board has continued its policy of assisting Negro students to secure in institutions outside the System graduate and professional training that is offered in University System institutions for white students but that is not offered in any one of the three University System institutions for Negro students. This assistance covers the difference between the cost of attending a University System institution and the cost of attending the institution to which a student chooses to go.
The number of students seeking this aid continues to increase. During 1951-52 the Board awarded scholarships to 1.358 Negro students at a cost of $120,718.00. Of the 1,358 students receiving aid, 490 were men and 868 were women. In 1950-51 the Board paid $88,430.00 to 932 students and in 1949-50 it paid $61,728.00 to 871 students.
It may be of interest to note that during 1951-52 scholarship aid in the amount of $39,850.00 was extended to 817 students attending Atlanta University and aid in the amount of $80,868.00 was given to 544 students attending 68 out-of-State institutions. Students receiving scholarship aid did their work in 41 different fields of study. The largest single field was teacher education.
REGIONAL EDUCATION
During 1951-52 the Board of Regents continued its contracts with the Board of Control for Southern Regional Education. Under these contracts it paid the Regional Board a total of $36,250.00. Of this amount, $13,000.00 was for the support of the central office of the Regional Board, $ 21. 000. 00 for fourteen places for Negro medical students at Meharry Medical College, and $2,250.00 for three places for Negro students of veterinary medicine at Tuskegee Institute.
Under its contracts with the Regional Board, the Board of Regents provides places in the School of Veterinary Medicine of the University of Georgia for 92 students from the States of Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina. For these places, the Regional Board pays $92,000.00. These payments go directly to the University of Georgia for the support of the School of Veterinary Medicine.
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Non-resident students who attend the School of Veterinary Medicine under these contracts pay to the School tuiti:en and matriculation fees at the rates established for residents of the State of Georgia.
WOMEN ADMITTED TO GEORGIA TECH
In any discussion of the instructional program for 1951-52, mention should be made of the fact that the Board of Regents at its meeting in April 19 52 authorized the Georgia Institute of Technology to open some of its instructional programs to women students. Georgia Tech was authorized to accept women students in courses in engineering and architecture. This authorization was made effective as of the beginning of the 1952-53 academic year. Women may not register at Georgia Tech for work that they may take in other senior institutions of the University System.
RESEARCH
Research work, both of a fundamental and an applied nature, is one of the essential functions of a university. The potential value to all the people of work of this type is now almost universally recognized. There was a time when faculty members of the University System, with the exception of those in the experiment stations, concerned themselves almost wholly with teaching and neglected research work. That time has passed. The reports of the presidents of practically all of the senior institutions indicate that faculty members are engaged in some form of research activity. This interest in research <has undoubtedly been encouraged by the Board's policy of recognizing that approved research activities may constitute a part of a faculty member's normal load of work and that he is not expected to carry a full teaching load when, with the approval of institutional officials, a substantial part of the faculty member's time is devoted to research.
As is to be expected, most of the research work is done in the larger institutions that offer graduate and professional work. The University of Georgia, the Georgia Institute of Technology, and the Medical College account for the bulk of the work of this character. Brief reference will be made to the program of each of these three institutions and then some comments will be made on the research activities in other institutions. It is unfortunate that within the scope of this report no description can be given of the many research projects that are under way in institutions of the System. The activities of the
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agricultural experiment stations are described in a special report that is printed and made available to anyone- who wishes a copy. Some of the activities of the Engineering Experiment Station of Georgia Tech are also described in printed reports.
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA
The research program of the University of Georgia is divided into two parts. First, there is a general research program that is conducted under the supervision of the Dean of the Graduate School and Director of Research, and, second, there is a program of agricultural research that is handled by the various agricultural experiment stations.
During the 19 5 I -5 2 regular session 51 individual faculty members at the University were engaged in part-time or full-time research work that was supported by the General Research budget. The time devoted to research by these 51 persons was equivalent to the full time of 22 persons. These faculty members published 60 reports in the form of books, monographs, and articles in research journals. They presented 3 7 papers before learned and professional societies and had 21 research papers in the press on July I, 19 52.
There were 28 faculty members at the University who carried full teaching loads and yet found time for some independent research. Numbers of this group published 5 3 research reports and read 19 papers before various professional organizations.
In the Atlanta Division of the University, 31 faculty members were engaged in some form of research work during the year. This work resulted in 12 publications and three papers before learned societies.
The second broad field of research of the University is agriculture. The principal agricultural experiment stations are the College Experiment Station at Athens, the Georgia Experiment Station at Griffin, and the Georgia Coastal Plain Experiment Station at Tifton. For some years there have been certain branch stations or substations. As was pointed out in the Annual Report of 1950-51 the Board of Regents during that year authorized the establishment of additional branch stations in Gordon County, Sumter County, and Burke County. These new branch stations were placed in operation on July 1, 19 51. As President Aderhold says, with the addition of these new stations, there is an experiment station in every major soil and climatic area of Georgia.
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The following quotation says about all that can be given in this report about the activities of the agriculturat experiment stations:
" . . . The stations now conduct 258 active projects in various fields. In the changing agriculture of Georgia, many demands are made on the stations and the personnel of the stations have adjusted their programs to meet these changes. Valuable contributions are being made through plant breeding, animal breeding, plant nutrition, animal nutrition, food processing, animal disease studies, plant disease studies, agricultural engineering, economic studies, and in all other fields affecting the welfare of the Georgia farmers.
"About 500,000 copies of research material have been mailed during the year. This represents some 75 bulletins, circulars, and mimeographed bulletins. In addition 75 articles by staff members have been published in scientific journals and popular publications. The experiment stations have helped in many short courses and meetings held over the State and approximately 15,000 farmers visited the stations during the year.
"Soil testing laboratories at Blairsville, Athens, Experiment, and Tifton test soil samples sent to these centers. Five mobile units working out from these laboratories visit counties over the State. All calls for testing services have been met and more than 50,000 soil samples were tested during 1951-52. A recent survey indicated that a large percentage of farmers having their soil tested follow the recommendations of soil scientists for improved fertilizer practices."
GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Although a considerable amount of independent research work is done at Georgia Tech by faculty members who carry full teaching loads, the greater part of the institution's research activities are handled through the Engineering Experiment Station. President Van Leer reports that "Education, national defense, service to industry, public health, and development of natural resources are among the broad areas within which the State Engineering Experiment Station has operated during 19 51-5 2."
The Engineering Experiment Station's income during 19 51-5 2 was $1.323,739.00. Of this amount, $1.134,667.00 was received under contracts with agencies of the federal government for various types of research work. These contracts necessarily determined the character of most of the work done by the Experiment Station. The Station has rendered a magnificent service to the federal government and the people of our country through its handling of research related
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to national defense and other matters vital to the nation's welfare. It is apparent, however. thatthe StatiO!i's research on Georgia's own problems was necessarily somewhat limited in scope.
Of the total income of the Station, $86,285.00 was received under contracts with industrial concerns. Research under these contracts, although it dealt with problems in which the industries had a special interest, was, nevertheless, of great value to the people of our State and region. The Station received an allocation of $69,000.00 of State funds and an additional allocation of $29,970.00 made jointly by the Board of Regents and the General Education Board. Although the State's contribution to the support of the Station was comparatively small, the Director of the Station reports as follows:
"With the funds provided by the Regents, the Station has carried out eleven research projects of a more or less fundamental nature which are designed either to contribute to a better understanding, or better industrial utilization, of State raw materials or agricultural products or to develop fundamental knowledge or techniques which will enable the Station to render better service to the State and to Georgia Tech."
During 19 5 I -5 2 the Engineering Experiment Station had a fulltime staff of 189 persons, including employees of all types. In addition to these full-time employees, the Station employed on a parttime basis 5 5 Georgia Tech faculty members, 81 graduate students, and 5 7 undergraduate students.
During the year the Station conducted work on 116 separate projects. Many of the reports on these studies are of a confidential nature and cannot be published. During 1951-52, however, members of the Georgia Tech faculty and of the staff of the Experiment Station had 143 publications to their credit. These publications include books, monographs, and articles in scientific journals. A list of these publications is contained in the Annual Report of the President of the Georgia Institute of Technology.
RESEARCH WORK AT THE MEDICAL COLLEGE AND OTHER INSTITUTIONS
The Medical College requires each department to conduct original investigation. Practically every faculty member is engaged in research work of some sort. As a result the number of publications of books and articles by faculty members of the Medical College is surprisingly high. During 19 51-5 2 the number of publications of this type was
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Architect's drawing of new administration building for the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta

approximately seventy. Several other manuscripts were ready for publication. In addition to publishing the rlsults of their research studies, faculty members each year present many papers and addresses before various medical and scientific groups.
A considerable portion of the funds for research at the Medical College is received from outside sources. The U. S. Public Health Service is the heaviest contributor to the support of this program. Various pharmaceutical houses also make substantial contributions for research. Grants are received from organizations like the American Cancer Society and the American Heart Association. The amount expended directly for research by the Medical College during 1951-52 was $141.160.00. This does not include the compensation paid to a number of faculty members who were engaged in both teaching and research but whose full salaries were carried on the instructional budget.
At the North Georgia College there was one publication by a faculty member dealing with the results of a research project in the field of chemistry.
At least ten faculty members of the Georgia State College for Women are conducting original investigations that will undoubtedly result in publications. It is expected that seven books and monographs will be ready for the press within the next few months. During the past five years thirty-two articles by members of the faculty of this institution have appeared in various scholarly publications.
During the past year several faculty members of the Georgia Teachers College have indicated great interest in research as well as in teaching. Eight members of this faculty published ten articles dealing with educational, scientific, and historical subjects.
Four members of the faculty of the Valdosta State College did research work that was a part of their programs of studies leading to the doctorate. Incidentally, two of these faculty members received Ph.D. degrees during the past year.
There is considerable interest in research at the Albany State College. Several members of the faculty are engaged in independent research while carrying full teaching loads. During the past year five members of the faculty published articles and a number of the faculty of the Department of English published a novel.
Eleven members of the faculty of the Fort Valley State College engaged in significant research activities during the year. Some of these studies were :financed in part by grants from the Carnegie Foundation
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for the Advancement of Teaching and from the Tennessee Valley Authority. The projects were 1ri the field's of agriculture, biology, sociology, teacher education, and mathematics.
The Fort Valley State College, as the land-grant institution for Negroes, expects to develop a strong program of research in the field of agriculture. The Board of Regents expects to encourage this development. The research program of the College will be closely coordinated with other research activities of the System in the field of agriculture.
At the Savannah State College, ten faculty members were at work on research problems of various types. Their activities were concentrated in the fields of history, teacher education, and biology. There were a number of publications by the members of this faculty.
Several members of the faculties of the junior colleges did research work incident to the preparation of theses and dissertations for advanced degrees. Two or three other faculty members were engaged in independent research studies of a significant nature.
LIBRARIES
When compared with the libraries of other institutions, there is not one strong or outstanding library in the University System of Georgia. Until quite recently, some of the institutional libraries did not meet the minimum standards of the Southern Association of Colleges. The Board of Regents has recognized that a library is the heart of an educational institution and has provided funds for the strengthening of libraries in all institutions. All libraries now meet the minimum standards of the Association but there is still a great need for further development.
In the first phases of the University System building program, the Regents provided for the erection of new library buildings at the University of Georgia, the Georgia Institute of Technology, and the Fort Valley State College. The library at the Fort Valley State College was completed in the spring of 19 52 and was dedicated on April 29, 1952. The library buildings at the University and Georgia Tech are nearing completion and should be ready for occupancy in the spring of 1953. The libraries at the University and at Georgia Tech cost in excess of $2,000,000.00 each and each will provide facilities entirely adequate for many years to come. Other library structures are included in later phases of the building program.
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Aerial view o f Middle Georgia College campus at Cochran
Front campus of Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College at Tifton
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A erial view of South G eorgia College campus at Douglas
Partial view of W est Georgia College campus, Carrollton
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In addition to the amounts set up in institutional budgets for library purposes, the Board of Regents made three special allocations during the year for book purchases. The Board provided the University with $35,000.00 which was applied toward the purchase of the library of the American Mathematical Society. This covered approximately one-half of the cost of the library; funds for the remainder of the purchase price were provided by the General Education Board. The Board also made a special allocation of $10,000.00 to the University for the purchase of books for the law library. The Board allotted $15,000.00 to the Georgia Institute of Technology for books. This allocation matches in part a grant of $30,000.00 made to Georgia Tech by the General Education Board for book purchases. This grant from the General Education Board was made payable over a three-year period.
The total amount of expenditures by institutions of the University System for library operations, including books and salaries of personnel. during 1951-52 was $659,473.87. During the year the net increase in library holdings was 44,289. The total number of books in institutional libraries at the end of the year was 783,072. Each of two university libraries in the South has more books than are contained in the libraries of all the institutions of the University System of Georgia. Our institutions, however, are making rapid progress in the development of good libraries.
The following table gives figures on library acquisitions and holdings during 19 51-5 2 and also on circulation of books.
One word of explanation about the circulation figures should be given. Since the total circulation includes books circulated during the regular session and during the summer session, we have, in order to arrive at the circulation per student, divided the total circulation figure for an institution by the equivalent number of full-time students enrolled in the institution during the entire year.
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LIBRARY STATISTICS

Institution

Volumes Added
1951-52

University of Georgia

14,561

Atlanta Division of the University.

9,785

Georgia Institute of Technology ....

6,042

Medical College of Georgia .......... 567

North Georgia College

1.747

Georgia State College for Women

1.917

Georgia Teachers College

1.484

Valdosta State College .....

923

Total No. of Volumes
283,590 46,160 127,860 21,225 24,178 54,834 44,856 28,739

Total Circula-
tion

Circulation Per Student

186,571 21.278 49,111 2,7781
41.470 35,558 1 30,847 12,357

40.7 7.2
12 8.5
60.6 40.6 35.5 28.5

Georgia Southwestern College

West Georgia College ...

Middle Georgia College

.........

South Georgia College ..

Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College.

278 11.561

554 11.9 77

358 10,727

438

9,808

262

9,210

8,745 50.3 8,5 02 1 29.8 3,6891 22.1 2,4981 11.1
4,794 20.1

Albany State College Fort Valley State College Savannah State College

1,551 18,439 36,877 48.9 1,949 16,230 18,908 18.3 1,873 18,678 44,668 41

Totals.

44,289 738,072

1Figure does not include books used in library. The circulation per student figure is, therefore, unduly low.

PUBLIC SERVICES
To an even greater extent the institutions of the University System are accepting as one of their major responsibilities services to all the people of the State. Through institutes and conferences devoted to special problems, through exhibits and demonstrations of improved practices in many fields of endeavor, and through counseling and service programs, our institutions are reaching and helping far more citizens of Georgia than are served through programs of formal classroom instruction. It is impossible within the limit of this report to describe the many and varied types of public service that the University System, through its institutions, is rendering. Mention will be made, however, of a few programs for the purpose of indicating the type of work that is being done in this field.
In addition to offering courses for credit through extension, reference to which has already been made, the Extension Division of the Georgia Institute of Technology offered twenty non-credit short courses that were attended by 1,028 persons. Each of these short courses was in a separate field and covered such subjects as airconditioning and heating, building materials, cost accounting, employee selection, job evaluation, and office work simplification. The Division also conducted eight conferences, seminars, and clinics for an addi-
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tional 1.280 individuals. S(!me of the.. topics discussed in these conferences were electrical applications for the textile industry, protective power relaying, and water and sewage problems. Through the Department of Industrial Education the Extension Division of Georgia Tech offered fire :fighter and peace officer training courses that had a total enrollment of 4,528. It also offered programs of in-service training for employees of manufacturing plants. There was registered in the non-credit courses of this type a total of 2,643 industrial employees.
The Medical College conducts for practicing physicians refresher courses and seminars in general practice and in certain specialties. In June of each year there is a post-graduate course for Negro physicians and another for Negro dentists.
The West Georgia College at Carrollton has won a national reputation because of the work that it has done with adult citizens in an effort to improve their cultural and economic level. Because of their successful work in carrying the services of the College directly to the citizens of the area that it serves, both President Ingram and Mr. J. Carson Pritchard, a faculty member, have been asked by the Ford Foundation to assist in developing similar programs throughout the country.
As a part of its comprehensive community service program, the Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College conducted during the year 37 short courses that were attended by 8,554 farmers. It also conducted, under the sponsorship of the Georgia Bankers' Association, a five weeks' short course for young farmers.
The institutions for Negroes participated to a remarkable extent in the community life of the regions that they serve. In addition to providing speakers for various social and civic gatherings, they have cooperated with the State Department of Education in making surveys and evaluations of public schools. They have held on their campuses many meetings of a civic and educational nature. The attendance at these meetings has shown the interest of citizens generally in the work that the colleges are doing. The number of persons attending such gatherings on the Savannah State College campus alone was more than 6,000 during the past year.
The following statement from the report of President Hoag of the North Georgia College shows the kind of community cooperation that the undergraduate colleges are giving:
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"During the past year the College, we feel. reached a new high in the general area of public service. Some of the activities and services rendered are as listed: Eleven public concerts by the Military Band, twenty-one concerts by the Glee Club; participation by various faculty members in nineteen school plant evaluations. Numerous speeches were made by members of the faculty and the administrative staff on the occasion of special public events, commencements, and general community gatherings. During the period covered, the College campus and its facilities were used by the Ninth District Home Economics Council. the North Georgia Teachers Council. the Ninth District Farm Bureau, the Atlanta Area Teacher Education Service (a seven day workshop), and the annual Sportsmen's Club Encampment of the Boys of Woodcraft (500 boys for one week)."
Because it has a Division of General Extension that is State-wide in the scope of its operations and because it has the Division of Agricultural Extension, the University of Georgia is in a better position than any other institution to reach the rank and file of the people of the State.
During 19 5 I -5 2 the University of Georgia conducted 90 short courses and institutes. Of this number 66 were held on the Athens campus and 24 in other cities and towns of the State. Fifty-two of these short courses and conferences were sponsored by the Division of General Extension and these 5 2 meetings were attended by 9,500 people. The Atlanta Division of the University conducted 11 institutes for the public to which 2,320 persons came. The Atlanta Division facilities were used for 86 other group meetings that were attended by more than 50,000 people.
Special mention should be made of a new service established by the Atlanta Division of the University during the year. The Division of Public Administration, in cooperation with the State Department of Law, issued during the 1952 session of the General Assembly a daily publication called "Legislative Service." This service provided an abstract of all bills introduced in the General Assembly and a state-
ment regarding the status of each bill. In appreciation of this service,
resolutions were passed by both houses of the General Assembly commending Dr. Henry C. Pepper, Head of the Division of Public Administration, and the Atlanta Division of the University. Letters of appreciation and commendation were received from the Governor and Attorney General. Plans are being made to continue this service.
The work of the Division of Agricultural Extension can be described by a quotation from the Annual Report of President Aderhold:
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"During the year an administrative plan was developed and put into operation whichprovides l'hr the Deans of the Schools of Forestry, Home Economics, and Veterinary Medicine to work with the administrative personnel of the Extension Service in planning and evaluating the programs in these fields. This is resulting in a closer coordination and integration of work between these Schools and the College of Agriculture, and is enabling the Extension Service to be more efficient in its work with the people of the state.
"During 19 5 1-5 2, the Extension Service published 23 bulletins and circulars. A good many other leaflets on such subjects as 'Commercial Egg Production' were published and distributed. Members of the staff in the state had 75 articles published in magazines and periodicals.
"Some 150,000 of the 198,000 farms of the state were influenced to make changes of one or more practices during the year as a result of the over-all county agricultural programs. In the field of conservation of resources, for example, 33,000 farmers were assisted with problems of land use by county agents, 23,000 in the use of crop rotations, 47,000 with use of cover crops or green manure crops, 1,900 with irrigation, and 85,000 with prevention and control of forest fires.
"Farmers were given numerous aids in planning their farm operations. Some 4,800 farmers were helped with making inventories, 8,600 with farm record keeping, 6,200 with enterprise records, and 27,000 in using outlook information in making farm adjustments. More than 10,000 farm women were assisted with time management problems.
"Some 14,000 volunteer leaders assisted agents in reaching and serving more people in 1951-52. The number of leaders helping with youth has grown from 7,900 to 14,435 in the past eight years, an increase of 82 per cent.
"Extension Service workers reach practically the entire farm population of Georgia directly or through community leaders who take information to their neighbors. County and home demonstration agents conducted 9,500 training meetings for leaders with an attendance of 186,000. Approximately one-half of this total was accounted for through the 4-H phase of Extension work.
"Significant results have been achieved in better yields in corn, cotton, and peanut production through statewide contests conducted by the Extension Service. Contests in the three farm enterprises were conducted in 19 51 and are being repeated in 1952. To promote the improvement of farm homes, a living room improvement contest was carried on by the Extension Service, 1951, with a commercial firm providing awards for contestants.
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"At the county level, Georgia is served by 15 3 county agents and 38 assistant agents and by 121 home-demonstration agents and 18 assistants. Among the major project areas in which demonstrations, publications, training programs, and individual assistance has been made available to the farm people of the state are home improvement, nutrition, textiles and clothing, food preservation, child development, home industries, health, beef cattle and sheep, marketing of eggs and cotton, dairying, poultry, swine, agronomy, horticulture, agricultural engineering, farm housing, forestry, soil conservation, recreation, wildlife, and entomology.
"Enrollment of 4-H Club members in Georgia has reached an all-time high in 1951-52 with 126,000 members who completed 330,000 projects. Two Georgia 4-H members were winners in sectional contests and four were winners in national contests. More than 1,000 4-H members, Extension workers, and advisers attended the annual State Council meeting in Milledgeville.
"One of the highlights of the 19 51-5 2 program was the groundbreaking ceremony at Rock Eagle Lake near Eatonton, where 1,400 acres of land, including a 110 acre lake, will be developed into a permanent State 4-H Camp at a cost of $1,500,000. The land has been leased to the Board of Regents for 99 years at no cost by the United States Department of Agriculture."
FINANCES There will be set forth here some of the more significant figures regarding the financial operations of the University System during the 1951-52 fiscal year. The Treasurer of the Board of Regents will issue a separate report describing in detail all phases of the System's financial operations.
INCOME OF THE UNIVERSl'fY SYSTEM
The following statement shows the sources and the amount of all funds available for operations and other purposes during 1951-52.
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SOURCES OF INCOME OF THE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM, 19 51-5 2

STATE APPROPRIATION.

$12,633,000.00

INTERNAL INCOME

Educational and General

Student fees

$5,081,190.57

Gifts, grants, and endowments 562,215.67

Governmental Income other than State appropriation. 2,096,329.09

Sales and services

2,089,130.59

Other income

125,464.55

Total educational and general income from

internal sources

$9,954,330.47

Auxiliary Enterprises

Dormitories

$ 885,208.83

Dining halls

2,014,818.15

Bookstores

1,275,426.83

Other income

556,871.48

Total auxiliary enterprise income.

Plant Funds

Gifts and grants

$ 182,234.28

Other income

60,308.07

4,732,325.29

Total Other Income
Gifts and grants Endowment income

$ 131,870.11 18,845.03

242,542.35

Total other income.

150,715.14

Total Internal Income.

$15,079,913.25

TOTAL INCOME FROM ALL SOURCES

$27,712,913.25

NON-INCOME
Loan from trust funds. Other receipts

$ 97,559.56 8,353.60

Total non-income receipts

105,913.16

FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD

Educational and General institutional funds car-

ried forward from 1950-51

$1,296,218.44

Restricted funds-unexpended gifts and grants. 320,615.06

Auxiliary enterprises - institutional cash balances

865,745.44

Plant funds-unexpended allotments with in-

stitutions and Regents' office

1,408,774.48

Unallocated funds in Regents' office.

93,288.46

Total amount carried forward from 19 5 0-51 .

3,984,641.88

TOTAL FUNDS AVAILABLE

$31,803,468.29

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Two or three comments about the above figures should be made. Of the State appropriation of$ 12,633-:-000.00, the sum of $400,000.00 was a non-recurring appropriation for the completion of the building housing the School of Veterinary Medicine of the University of Georgia. The Board of Regents received from the State, under the regular and contingent sections of the Appropriation Act, $12,233,000.00 for operations, repairs, and capital improvements.
It will be observed that the income from student fees was $5,081,-
190.57. The comparable figure for the preceding year was $6,020,537.01. The decrease in fee income, as compared with 1950-51, was $939,346.44. This loss was attributable to a lower student enrollment and to the fact that many of the students lost were veterans whose fees were higher than those paid by non-veteran students. State income provided a higher percentage of the total income available for operations than ever before.
EXPENDITURES OF THE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM
The following figures indicate the uses made of University System income during 1951-52.
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CLASSIFICATION OF EXPENDITURES OF THE UNIVERSITY
SYSTEM, 1951-52

EDUCATIONAL AND GENERAL EXPENDITURES Administrative and general Student welfare Plant operations Libraries Instruction Activities related to instruction Research Agricultural Extension General Extension

$1.556,942.07 345,842.93
1.806.748.62 659,473.87
6,887, I 90.86 649,537.48
2,970,736.47 1,811.709.49
839,197.95

Total Educational and General Expenditures

$17.527,379.74

AUXILIARY ENTERPRISE EXPENDITURES Dormitories Dining halls Bookstores Other expenditures

$ 687.411.40 1.977.218.73 1,210,140.87 385,510.82

Total Auxiliary Enterprise Expenditures

PLANT EXPENDITURES

Additions to plant-capital improvements

$1,488,729.85

Debt service-repayments to loan funds on funds

borrowed for construction

247,967.65

Rentals paid on buildings erected by Building

Authority

973,020.23

Other plant expenditures-architect fees, etc.

309,381.63

4.260.281.82

Total Plant Expenditures

OTHER EXPENDITURES

Scholarships for Negroes from State funds;

scholarships for white students from gifts

and grants

$

Graduate fellowships paid from gifts and grants

Prizes and awards

Payments to Regional Education Board

223,412.78 20,403.88 12,963.59 36.250.00

3.019.099.36

Total Other Expenditures

293,030.25

TOTAL EXPENDITURES I 9 5 1-52

$25.099.79 I.I 7

NON-EXPENSE Transfer to University of Georgia Endowment Fund for interest on Constitutional debt.

8.000.00

FUNDS ON HAND JUNE 30, 1952

Educational and General balances of institutions $1,392,505.67 Restricted funds-unexpended gifts and grants. 40 I. 319. 64

Auxiliary Enterprises-cash balances of institu-

tions

994.720.69

Unexpended plant funds with Regents' office

and institutions

3,546,985.04

Unallocated funds in Regents' office

360,146.08

Total Funds on Hand June 30, 1952.

6.695,677.12

TOTAL

$31,803,468.29

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It will be noted that the e_ducational.. and general expenditures of the University System during 1951-52 were $17,527,379.74. The corresponding figure for 1950-51 was $15,780,821.07. It is apparent that the cost of the educational and general program during 1951-52 was $1,746,558.67 higher than during the preceding year. This represents an increase of 9.96 per cent.
The percentage of the total expenditures that was used for each of the several phases of the educational and general budget is shown in the following figures:

Administrative and General _________________________________________ 8.9 %

Student Welfare ______ ___ ___ _ __ _________ ___ _________________________ 2. 0 %

Plant Operations ______ _____ ____ ____ _____________________________ l 0. 3 %

Libraries _________________________ _____ __________ _________ ____________ ___ 3. 8 ',7o

Instruction

_________ ______ ______________ __ _____________ 39. 3 %

Activities Related to Instruction________ _____________________________ 3. 7 %

Research ______________________________________________________________________ l 6. 9 %

Agricultural Extension _________________________________________________ l 0. 3 %

General Extension _______ _______________ __ ______ ___ _________________ 4. 8 %

100.0%
The percentages set forth above are roughly comparable to those for
I 9 50- 5 I . There was an increase in research from I 3. 4 % to 16. 9 %.
This was due to the erection of three new agricultural experiment substations and to the expanded program of the Engineering Experiment Station of Georgia Tech. The activities of the latter are largely self-supporting. There was a decline in the percentage for instruction from 41.3% in 1950-51 to 39.3o/o in 1951-52. This is an indication that our institutions must place more emphasis on the strengthening of their instructional programs and that they must cease to expand their other functions at the expense of instruction.

INCOME RECEIVED BY INSTITUTIONS OF THE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM
In making allotments to institutions of the System, the Board followed its policy of considering the prospective enrollment of each institution and the type of educational work done by that institution. Some types of programs are obviously more expensive than others. These were, by no means, the only factors determining the amounts of allotments. The Board considered the anticipated fee income of each institution, amounts that institutions expected to pay as supplementary retirement allowances, the costs that some institutions must bear in maintaining and operating practice schools, special circum-
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stances affecting the costs of maintammg and operating the physical plants, and other items having a bearing on the..financial needs of each institution.
The Board made allotments to institutions in February of 19 51 and on the basis of these allotments institutional budgets were prepared for 19 51-5 2. During the 1951-5 2 fiscal year the Board made special allocations to certain institutions for the removal of fire hazards in buildings, for repairs, for improvements of grounds and for the purchases of books and special items of equipment. The following table shows the amount of the original allotment of State funds to each institution and also the amounts that each institution received in the form of special allocations for various purposes. The last column indicates the total amount of State funds that each institution received during the year. This table also shows the purposes for which the Board of Regents made special allotments of funds.
ALLOCATIONS OF STATE FUNDS

Institution

Special Special Special

Allotments Allotments Allotments

-Books -New -Repairs

Original and Buildings and

Total

Allotment Equipment and Land Grounds Allotment

University of Georgia --------------------------- ------ $1,880,000

Atlanta Division of University_

450,000

General Extension

------------------

55,000

Agricultural Extension ---------------Agricultural Experiment Stations _

650,000 913,000

Georgia Institute of Technology _

1,470,979

Southern Technical Institute ____

74,021

Medical College of Georgia _

550,000

North Georgia College _

268,000

Georgia State College for Women ____

459,000

Georgia Teachers College _

270,000

Valdosta State College

148,000

$45,000 0 0 0 0
15,000 0 0 0 0 0 0

$449,343 0 0 0
128,728 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

$ 202,500 $ 2,576,843

22,000

472,000

0

55,000

0

650,000

48,000 1,089,728

477,500 1,963,479

0

74,021

34,976 584,976

90,400

358,400

105,500

564,500

58,500

328,500

46,648

194,648

Georgia Southwestern College West Georgia College Middle Georgia College _ South Georgia College Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College_

90,000 122,000
91,000 111,000 118,000

0 0 0 0 4,500

0 0 0 0 14,087

45,366 43,265 45,000 40,900 71,290

135,366 165,265 136,000 151,900 207,877

Albany State College ___ Fort Valley State College _______ Savannah State College _

225,000 290,000 410,000

0 0 10,000

0 61,008 1~,500

51,250 100,125
75,100

276,250 451,133 508,600

Institutional Totals _______ _

---------- $8,645,000 $74,500 $666,666 $1,558,320 $10,944,486

Regents' Office

Graduate Education for Negroes ---------------

Regional Education Board _

Soil Conservation Committee

Building Rentals

__________________ _

Architects' Fees _________________________

University of Georgia for Constitutional Debt _

93,673 120,718
36,250 25,000 973,020 191,386
8,000

Totals __ Unallocated portion of 1951-52 State Appropriation

$12,392,533 240,467

Total State Appropriatio'1 _____________ ---------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________ $12,633,000

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The next table shows in the first c..Qlumn the State appropriation to each institution for strictly educational and general purposes. The second column shows the average number of full-time students or their equivalent registered in each institution during the regular nine months" session of 19 5 I -5 2. The third column shows the State allocation per student on the basis of the number of students in the regular session. These enrollment figures are based on institutional reports as to their numbers.
For comparative purposes it seems advisable to include two additional columns. Most of the institutions conduct summer sessions and the cost of these sessions is paid from the educational and general budgets of the institutions. Some institutions conduct classes on Saturdays and at nights for regularly enrolled students. Students in this group are usually registered on a part-time basis. There are also other types of part-time students. In order to arrive at figures that will give more accurate pictures of cost in the several institutions, we have taken the number of quarter credit hours of residence work taken by students of all types in each institution and we have divided this number by 50. The figure 50 is used because it represents the average number of quarter hours of credit earned by a full-time student in the University System during three academic quarters. In two or three institutions the average number of hours taken by students is slightly less than 5 0; the enrollment figures for these institutions in the fourth column will, therefore, be somewhat less than the actual enrollment. In an even greater number of institutions the average student takes more than 50 quarter hours of credit during three quarters; in these institutions the figures in the fourth column will be somewhat above the actual enrollment. The figures in the last column are obtained by dividing an institution's allocation for educational and general purposes by the number of students indicated in the fourth column. The figures in the last column really indicate the allocation to each institution for offering 50 student quarter credit hours of work.
The Board realizes that the per student allocations to some of the institutions, particularly those to the junior colleges, are higher than can be justified under ordinary circumstances. The Board feels that the enrollments in some schools, due to circumstances already mentioned, are abnormally low and that increasing enrollments in the very near future will correct the situation. If the Board's expectations are not fulfilled, the Board will take steps looking toward a curtailment of operations in certain of the institutions.
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ALLOCATIONS PER STUDENT TO UNIVERSITY SYSTEM INSTITUTIONS,
1951-52

Institution

Allocation Educational and General
Purposes

University of Georgia. . $1,925,000

Atlanta Division of

University

450,000

Georgia Institute of

Technology

1,485,979

Technical Institute

74,021

Medical College of Ga, .

550,000

North Georgia College.

268,000

Ga. State Col. for Women 459,000

Georgia Teachers College. 270,000

Valdosta State College.

148,000

Average No.
Full-time Students Regular Session
4,239
2,412
3,323 344 326 526 553 474 362

Allocation per Student
in Regular Session
$ 454

Total No. of All
Students -50
Quarter
Hours per Student

Allocation per Student Taking 50
Quarter Hours-
All Students

4,745 $ 406

187 2,964

153

447
215 1,687
509 830
569 409

4,110 548
318 684
876 870 433

361 135 I, 730
392 524 310 342

Ga. Southwestern College

90,000

154

584

174

517

West Georgia College

122,000

246

496

285

428

Middle Georgia College.

91,000

152

598

167

545

South Georgia College.

111,000

221

502

226

491

Abraham Baldwin Agricul-

tural College

118,000

210

562

239

494

Albany State College.

225,000

471

478

754

298

Fort Valley State College 290,000

616

471 1,034

280

Savannah State College

410,000

927

442 1,230

333

It will be observed that the State allocations to institutions of the University System meet all requirements of the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools.
For their operating income, the institutions of the System rely not only on State allocations but also on income from fees and various other sources. The statement set forth on pages 64 and 65 of this report shows the various sources from which institutions derived income and the amount received from each source. It will be noted that one set of figures is given for all operations of the Georgia Institute of Technology, including the Southern Technical Institute.

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STATEMENT OF EDUCA,JAL AND GENERAL INCOME FOR YEAR ENjrUNE 30, 1952

STUDENT FEES

Institution

Non-Resident Matriculation Tuition

University of Georgia ___ ------------------ $ 669,959.07 $ 313,973.07 Atlanta Division of the

University -- -------------General Extension ______________

443,389.60 204,490.37

225,519.00

Agricultural Experiment Sta. ___

Agricultural Extension Service __

Georgia Institute of Technology ___ Medical College of Georgia _______ North Georgia College ________
Georgia State College for Women __ Georgia Teachers College ________________ Valdosta State College ______________________

890,984.40 136,571.88
72,668.71 78,064.32 69,167.34 51,088.03

666,904.13
4,146.31 3,071.64 12,149.95 7,368.86

Summer School $173,586.02
118,609.74
51,039.99
17,832.77 49,535.10 59,316.12
8,322.52

Total Senior Units (White) $2,616,383.78 $1,233,132.96 $478,242.26

Other $ 70,914.46
82,620.17
68,417.53 495.00
7,362.95 13,817.10 9,863.17
8,712.61
$262,202.99

Gifts, Grants, and Endowments
$190,489.55

Governmental Other Than State Allotment
$ 231,162.65

93,223.21 43,626.57 63,638.87 165,351.29
1,600.00 2,000.00

379,924.42 1,262,314.33
17,207.10 2,500.00
78,706.86 29,825.00

$559,929.49 $2,001,640.36

Georgia Southwestern West Georgia College

College ________ ________________________

$

Middle Georgia College __________________

South Georgia College ________

Abraham Baldwin Agricultural

College --

-------------------

Total Junior Units (White) ____ $

13,620.50 21,993.75 12,880.00 20,111.61
19,556.70
88,162.56

$

783.15

3,021.94

2,400.00

4,726.87

1,335.52

$ 12,267.48

$ 987.85 3,425.70 620.00
3,461.66
-----
$ 8,495.21

$ 1,779.90 3,096.04 1,800.00 3,220.99
1,801.75
$ 11,698.68

$ 1,443.71
$ 1,443.71

Albany State College ____

$ 41,409.27

Fort Valley State College ___________

63,486.25

Savannah State College _______________ .

77,256.50

Total Senior Units (Negro) ---- $ 182,152.02

Central Office Soil Conservation Committee _
Total
GRAND TOTAL

-----
$2,886,698.:l6

$ 5,223.40 16,867.46 37,729.97
$ 59,820.83
$1,305.221.27

$ 19,877.69 32,126.37 50,168.50
$102,172.56 -~--
-------$588,910.03

$ 5,635.58 10,733.60 10,090.06
----$ 26,459.24
$300,360.91

$ 2,286.18 $ 2,286.18
$562,215.67

$ 67,587.92 25,657.10
$ 93,245.02
$2,096,329.09

Sales and Services $ 87,043.60
12,942.21 662,313.00 1,267,211.43
11,652.37 60.42
$2,041,223.03
$
29,974.67 $ 29,974.67
$ 16,800.80 1,132.09
$ 17,932.89

Other $ 39,981.87
13,909.63
15,466.27
26,960.87 571.80
6,593.88 4,512.14
201.05
$108,197.51
$ 1,383.87 1,949.47 2,000.00
1,349.72
$ 6,683.06
$ 120.00 2,615.32 7,814.66
----$ 10,549.98

Total Internal Income 81,777,110.29
801,427.97 300,052.75 1,150,926.90 1,305,940.90 3,052,364.38 317,142.34 103,671.16 231,788-90 184,833.72
75,693.07
$9,300,952.38
$ 18,555.27 34,930.61 19,700.00 28,059.47
57,480.02
$ 158,725.37
$ 72,265.94 212,503.90 209,848.88
$ 494,618.72

State Allotment $1,925,000.00
450,000.00 55,000.00
913,000.00 650,000.00 1,560,000.00 550,000.00 268,000.00 459,000.00 270,000.00 148,000.00
$7,248,000.00
$ 90,000.00 122,000.00 91,000.00 111,000.00
118,000.00
$ 532,000.00
$ 225,000.00 290,000.00 410,000.00
$ 925,000.00

Less Allotment Unpaid at End of
Year $ 96,808.24
19,519.97 26,662.18
6,784.01
6,247.77 39,929.97 27,024.42
8,680.59
$231,657.15 -----
$ 4,042.41 11,524.43
10,074.14
$ 25,640.98 - -----
$ 11,218.43
$ 11,218.43

Total Income $ 3,605,302.05
1,231,908.00 328,390.57
2,057,142.89 1,955,940.90 4,612,364.38
867,142.34 365,423.39 650,858.93 427,809.30 215,012.48
$16,317,295.23
$ 104,512.86 145,406.18 110,700.00 128,985.33
175,480.02
$ 665,084.39
$ 286,047.51 502,503.90 619,848.88
$ 1,408,400.29

$2,089,130.59

$

34.00 $

34.00

$

34.00 $

34.00

-------

$125,464.55 $9,954,330.47

$ 72,000.00 25,000.00
$ 97,000.00
$8,802,000.00

$ 16,808.32
$ 16,808.32
$285,324.88

$ 72,034.00 8,191.68
$ 80,225.68
$18,471,005.59

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The next table shows th.e percenta&._e of income that each institution received from each of the several sources indicated.

PERCENTAGE OF INCOME RECEIVED BY INSTITUTIONS FROM VARIOUS SOURCES

Institution

Stud ent Fees

University of Georgia

3 3.2

Atlanta Division of University 62.9

General Extension

80.9

Agricultural Experiment

Stations

Agricultural Extension Service

Georgia Institute of Technology. 36.4

Medical College of Ga ..

I 5.8

North Georgia College.

27.5

Ga. State College for Women. 20.9

Georgia Teachers College.

3 3.1

Valdosta State College.

33.7

Ga. Southwestern College. West Georgia College. Middle Georgia College South Georgia College. Abraham Baldwin Agricultural
College

I 5.8 20.1 16.0 20.2
14.9

Albany State College. Fort Valley State College. Savannah State College

24.3 24.5 28.3

Gifts and Endowments
5 .1

Sales and Services
2.4
3.6

Other Internal Income

Governmental Other
Than
State Allot- State ment Allotment

1.1

6.2 52.0

1.1

36.0

15 .5

4.5 32.1

2.2

1.4 27.5

19 .1

1.3

0.4

0.3

0.8 18.4 44.2

64.5 33.2

0.5

0.4 33.8

0.1

0.3 63.4

72.1

1.0 11.4 66.5

1.0 6.6 59.3

0.1

66.2

1.3

82.9

1.2

0.9 77.8

1.8

82.2

79.8

I 7 .1

0.5

3.3

0.2

0.8

67.2

75.7 0.5 13.5 57.7 1.3 4.1 66.1

Comparisons among institutions under the last table are not easy because some institutions receive substantial parts of their income from the federal government, gifts and grants, and sales and service. These items of income are received for many different purposes that are not common to all institutions. Mr. Blissit has, therefore, prepared another table in which he shows the percentages of income derived from State allocations and student fees for instructional purposes. This table is set forth below.
It will be observed that, after eliminating all variables, there is still a marked difference in the percentages of income derived from the sources indicated. The percentage of income from State allotments varies from 38.3 per cent in the case of the Atlanta Division of the University to 82.7 per cent in the case of the Georgia Southwestern College. The percentage of income from fees runs from 16 per cent in the case of the Georgia Southwestern College to 60.5 per cent in the case of the Atlanta Division. The variations are not as great as they once were. Nevertheless, they are still greater than they should be.

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Enrollment changes are expected to go far toward correcting the condition soon. If they do not, thcBoard wnl have to take action appropriate to the circumstances.

PERCENTAGE OF INCOME RECEIVED BY INSTITUTIONS FOR INSTRUCTION

Institution
University of Georgia. Atlanta Division of the University.
Georgia Institute of Technology. Medical College of Georgia North Georgia College Georgia State College for Women Georgia Teachers College Valdosta State College
Georgia Southwestern College. West Georgia College Middle Georgia College South Georgia College Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College.
Albany State College Fort Valley State College. Savannah State College

State Allotment
57.4 38.3 53.8 80.4 71.5 75.8 63 .1 66.4
82.7 77.6 81.6 81.1 81.8
76.6 65.2 67.6

Student Fees
36.4 60.5 43.7 18.9 28.1 23.7 36.2 33.6
16.0 21.0 16.6 18.9 17.3
23.4 25.9 31.3

Other
6.2 1.2 2.5 0.7 0.4 0.5 0.7
1.3 1.4 1.8
0.9
8.9
I.I

EXPENDITURES BY INSTITUTIONS OF THE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM
On pages 68 and 69 of this report is set forth a table that shows in detail the purposes for which institutional funds were expended and the amount spent for each of the several purposes indicated. It will be understood that these figures reflect operating costs only and do not include expenditures for capital improvements.
The table below shows the percentage of each institution's total

PERCENTAGES OF INSTITUTIONAL EXPENDITURES FOR VARIOUS PURPOSES

Adm. and

Institution

General

University of Georgia __________

8.1

Atlanta Division of the University 12.1

Georgia Institute of Technology _

10.2

Medical College of Georgia _________

9.8

North Georgia College _

12.7

Ga. State College for Women _

12.6

Georgia Teachers College

12.9

Valdosta State College _______

18.6

Student Welfare
3.8 1.7 8.6
6.4 4.9 1.4 4.6

Ga. Southwestern College West Georgia College _______________
Middle Georgia College ___ South Georgia College - Abraham Baldwin
Agricultural College

27.9

4.3

18.2

1.2

24.4

1.3

20.3

4.2

19.4

3.3

Albany State College Fort Valley State College _ Savannah State College _

20.2

3.9

13.3

2.5

14.8

3.4

Plant Operations
15.2 10.1 16.8 11.7 23.0 17.1 15.4 15.4
24.4 22.0 22.8 16. 7
23.2
13.4 19.0 19.2

InstrucLibrary tion

9.0

63.9

9.1

67.0

4.8

64.6

2.1

76.4

5.2

52.7

6.0

59.4

6.1

64.2

5.6

55.8

Total
100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0

4.1

39.3

100.0

4.4

54.2

100.0

5.1

46.4

100.0

3.7

55.1

100.0

4.4

49.7

100.0

5.7

56.8

100.0

7.4

57.8

100.0

5.4

57.2

100.0

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expenditures for administration, student welfare, plant operations, library, and instruction that was used for each of the several purposes. Expenditures for research and other purposes not common to most institutions have been excluded.

STATEMENT OF EDUCATIONAND GENERAL EXPENDITURES FOR YEAR ENrJUNE 30, 1952

Institution

University of Georgia

Atlanta Division of the University

General Extension

______ _

Agricultural Experiment Stations

Agricultural Extension Service _ Georgia Institute of Technology Medical College of Georgia _____ _

North Georgia College _

___ _

Georgia State College for Women __ Georgia Teachers College ______ _________________________

Valdosta State College

Total Senior Units (White)

Administrative and General
$ 225,904.44 127,621.86 30,988.20 102,750.82 105,170.12 283,536.22 50,056.77 45,117.21 71,019.04 49,774.97 39,333.49
$1,131,273.14

Student Welfare
$106,846.78 18,236.12
97,131.16
22,544.27 27,791.94
5,414.79 9,594.93
$287,559.99

Physical Plant
$ 395,294.99 107,402.95 1,361.50 58,895.65
555,333.46 57,475.04 85,217.96 95,978.97 57,640.56 32,187.96
$1,446,789.04

Georgia Southwestern College West Georgia College Middle Georgia College South Georgia College ____________ Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College ___
Total Junior Units (White)
Albany State College _____ _ Fort Valley State College Savannah State College _

$ 29,204.73 26,289.47 26,271.50 26,717.28 23,124.07
$ 131,607.05

$ 4,425.57 1,661.90 1,375.00 5,590.75 4,049.16
$ 17,102.38

$ 25,561.21 32,140.75 24,635.22 21,589.37 28,175.35
$ 132,101.90

$ 54,139.45 58,639.58 87,609.95

$ 10,719.06 10,593.77 19,867.73

$ 36,638.78 81,636.85
109,582.05

Total Senior Units (Negro)
Central Office Soil Conservation Committee

$ 200,388.98 $ 93,672.90

$ 41,180.56 -----

$ 227,857.68

Total GRAND TOTAL

$ 93,672.90 $1,556,942.07

$345,842.93

$1,806,748.62

Library $237,979.17
95,826.38 11,688.31 127,024.27 10,405.99 18,260.38 32,750.38 22,755.50 11,764.60 $568,454.98
$ 4,31:l.22 6,234.78 5,522.60 5,169.98 5,295.21
----26,535.79
$ 15,601.23 24,057.73 24,824.14
$ 64,483.10
$659,473.87

Instruction
$1,920,848.61 701,971.65 141,983.01
1,747,510.57 375,232.75 178,890.87 370,882.97 275,056.38 117,701.13
$5,830,077.94
$ 41,163.44 76,251.56 50,113.14 72,311.90 60,477.47
$ 300,317.51

Activities Related to Instruction
31,704.68 365,862.55
193,907.51
$591,474.74 ---$
38,675.91 $ 38,675.91

Research $ 185,954.10
1,311,534.74 1,327,287.15
141,160.41 257.82
2,191.14
-----$2,968.385.36
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Extension $ 201,092.37
101,060.35 1,811,709.49
440,972.10 1,311.85
21,765.75 6,321.19
$2,584,233.10
1,042.71
8,520.99 $ 9,563.70

Total Expenditures
$ 3,273,920.46 1,051,058.96 307,097.74 1,850,732.07 1,916,879.61 4,578,794.93 829,550.32 350,288.51 622,380.19 416,963.39 210,582.11
$15,408,248.29
$ 104,668.17 143,621.17 107,917.46 131,379.28 168,318.16
$ 655,904.24

$ 154,104.27 251,692.96 350,998.18
$ 756,795.41

$ 19,386.83
$ 19,386.83

$ 2,351.11
----
$ 2,351.11 -----

$ 32,742.19 3,448.79
$ 36,190.98
$ 20,919.66

$ 271,202.79 481,101.02 596,330.84
$ 1,348,634.65
$ 93,672.90 20,919.66

$6,887,190.86

$649,537.48

$2,970,736.47

$ 20,919.66 $2,650,907.44

$ 114,592.56 $17,527,379.74

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It will be noted that there are wide variations in the percentages. These variations are due largely to the diffe~nces in the sizes of institutions and the character of their programs. For instance, the expenditures for administration in a small institution, in terms of percentages, will necessarily be higher than they will be in a large institution. It is probable, however, that some of the institutions have more elaborate administrative organizations than their size and circumstances can justify.
The following table shows the amount, in terms of dollars, that each institution spent per student for administration, student welfare, plant operations, libraries, and instruction. In arriving at these figures, all types of resident student enrollment were included-enrollments in the regular session, summer session, Saturday classes, workshops, etc. The number of full-time students was determined by dividing 50 into the total number of student quarter hours of work offered by an institution. The figure 50 was used because it represents the average number of quarter hours of work taken by a student in the University System during three quarters. The last column in this table indicates the amount that it cost each institution to provide such a student with instructional and other educational services over a nine months' period. From this computation, expenditures for operating practice schools for student teachers, for providing clinical facilities for medical students, for paying salaries of itinerant teachers of agriculture, and for other like purposes, have been excluded. Only costs of direct services to college students have been taken into consideration.

EXPENDITURES PER EQUIVALENT FULL-TIME STUDENT IN TERMS OF DOLLARS

Institution

Adm. and Student General Welfare

University of Georgia _---------

$ 48

$22

Atlanta Division of the University 43

6

Georgia Institute of Technology

68

24

Medical College of Georgia ...

150

North Georgia College ..

66

33

Ga. State College for Women

80

32

Georgia Teachers College

57

6

Valdosta State College ..

91

22

Ga. Southwestern College West Georgia College_ Middle Georgia College _____
South Georgia College Abraham Baldwin
Agricultural College

168

26

90

6

157

8

118

25

99

17

Albany State College _ Fort Valley State College Savannah State College _

73

14

55

10

71

16

Plant Operations
$ 89 36
111 178 120 110 68 75
147 109 148 97
118
48 79 92

lnstrueLibrary tion

$53 $ 375

32

238

31

427

32

1,168

27

274

39

381

27

283

27

272

25

237

22

268

33

300

22

321

22

252

21

206

31

239

26

273

Total
$ 587 355 661
1,528 520 643 441 487
603 495 646 583
508
362 414 478

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A study of the Standards of the Southern Association of Colleges relative to the required amount of exp;nditures for various purposes will reveal that all institutions of the System are in full compliance with these Standards.
PHYSICAL PLANTS
Reports for the past three years have set forth in some detail the needs of the institutions for funds for new buildings and for repairs to existing buildings. They have also indicated the progress that is being made toward meeting these needs. In this section of the present report, we shall mention very briefly some of the more important developments during 1951-52.
REPAIRS AND IMPROVEMENTS
During the past year Mr. F. P. Reinero, Deputy State Fire Marshal, completed his surveys of the buildings of all institutions of the University System. He has submitted detailed statements regarding the work that should be done in each building in order to bring that building into compliance with the provisions of the Georgia Fire Safety Law. The estimated cost of this work in all institutions of the System is $3,250,000.00. The Board of Regents during 1951-52 allotted $1,245,670.00 toward the cost of this work. The Board hopes to provide funds for the remainder of this work during the 1952-53 and 1953-54 fiscal years.
Because of long neglect, many of the buildings of the University System are in an exceedingly bad state of repair. It was estimated during the year that the cost of doing this deferred maintenance work would be $4,000,000.00. During the past year the Board and the institutions were able to set aside only about $400,000.00 for work of this type. The Board has felt that the removal of fire hazards should ordinarily take priority over other types of repair work.
All institutions during the year have carried on their usual maintenance and repair programs. Most of them, however, have not been able to handle any major repair jobs because of the lack of money.
The grounds of some institutions show the results of neglect. The Board feels that a college campus should be a spot of beauty. Many citizens have spoken to Board members about the beautifully landscaped campuses in other states and have commented on the poor impression that a visitor receives when he visits some of the campuses of
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the University System. During the past year the Board made it possible for every institution to secu';e the services of a competent 'landscape architect. Plans have been made for developing and planting some sections of the campus of practically every institution. The Board also made available the sum of $22,500.00 for the purchase of trees and shrubs. By making single purchases for a number of institutions, Mr. Dewberry was able to secure plants at comparatively low prices. Many trees and shrubs were planted during the early part of 19 5 2. The institutions are taking a great interest in campus development. The years immediately ahead will bring great improvements in the physical appearance of the grounds of our institutions and these improved physical appearances will undoubtedly be reflected in the character and aesthetic tastes of the students.
In discussing campus improvements, mention should be made of the fact that the State Highway Department paved the roads and drives on the campus of the Georgia Southwestern College at a cost of approximately $30,000.00. The Highway Department has also paved all the principal roads on the campus of the Fort Valley State College and has done some paving work on the campuses of the University of Georgia and the Albany State College. We are grateful to the Highway Department and its officials for the assistance that they have given to the institutions of the System.
NEW CONSTRUCTION COMPLETED
The last Annual Report indicated that fifteen buildings were being constructed for institutions of the University System by the University System Building Authority. Ten of these projects have been completed. They are as follows:
Georgia Institute of Technology Architecture Building __________________________________$1, 137,429.00
North Georgia College Dormitory for Women__________________________________ 5 I 7,718.00
Georgia Teachers College Annex to Laboratory School__________________________ 341,759.00
Georgia Southwestern College Dormitory for Men _____ ---------------------------------- 16 7, 61 1. 00
West Georgia College Dormitory for Men --------------------------------------- 258,960.00
Middle Georgia College Dormitory for Men________________________________________ 166,464.00
South Georgia College Dormitory for Women_________________ _______________ 272,554.00
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Albany State College Dormitory for Men_______________~--------------~--------
Fort Valley State College Library -------------------------------------------------------Dormitory for Men________________________________________

204,118.00 235,5 10.00 533,493.00

It will be observed that the costs of the projects listed above were, in most cases, somewhat below the estimates of costs in the Report for last year. This is due to the fact that estimated costs included contingent funds that were not fully used.
In addition to the buildings constructed by the University System Building Authority, many small buildings have been constructed with funds allotted by the Board of Regents. These smaller structures include barns, storage sheds, small residences on farms, and a home management house at the Fort Valley State College.

NEW CONSTRUCTION UNDER WAY
Five of the Building Authority projects listed in the last report as being under construction have not yet been completed. These projects are as follows:
University of Georgia Library ______________________________________________________ $ 2,008,689.00 Dormitory for Men________________________________________ 1,201,601.00 Dormitory for Women__________________________________ 1,445,749.00
Georgia Institute of Technology Library -------------------------------------------------------- 2,048, 8 3 1. 00
Georgia Teachers College Dormitory for Men________________________________________ 395,045.00
All of the five buildings mentioned above should be completed during the early part of 19 5 3.
The Annual Report for 1950-51 listed projects on which it was hoped that construction could begin at an early date. Due to the impossibility of securing certain building materials, particularly steel. the beginning of construction work on most of these projects has been delayed. Contracts have been let, however, for the construction of five of the projects listed in that report. Three of the projects are being handled by the University System Building Authority. They are as follows:
Georgia Institute of Technology Central Heating Plant___________________________________ $1,000,000.00
Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College Dormitory for Women__________________________________ 299,964.00
Savannah State College Sewer Collection System_ ___ _ __________ _____________ 181,827.00
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Two smaller projects are being constructed with funds made available by the Board of Regents. One of these projects is an annex to the food processing plant of the Georgia Experiment Station for which the Board has allotted $70,421.40. The other is a laboratory and auditorium building at the Mountain Experiment Station for which the Board has made available the sum of $61,728.00.
Another job that is now under way is the completion of the building housing the School of Veterinary Medicine of the University of Georgia. The original bids for the construction of this building were higher than they were expected to be. The Board was forced to take alternates that left a major portion of the building incomplete. The General Assembly at its last session appropriated $400,000.00 for finishing this work. When bids were received, it appeared that the cost, on the basis of the lowest bid, would be $449,342.66. The Board allotted from its own funds the additional $49,342.66 that was needed.
NEW BUILDINGS PLANNED
The Board has approved the construction of 24 additional buildings costing approximately $8,500,000.00. These buildings are listed on pages 65 and 66 of the Annual Report for 1950-5 l. They will be constructed for the Board by the University System Building Authority. Architectural plans for practically all of these buildings are complete. Construction should begin as soon as allotments of steel can be obtained.
In addition to the buildings listed in the Report for 19 50- 51. the Board has authorized the construction of faculty housing at each of the three colleges for Negroes. There will be 16 family units at the Fort Valley State College, 12 at the Albany State College, and 12 at the Savannah State College. Architectural plans for these faculty apartments are now being prepared. The estimated cost of the three projects is $400,000.00. Construction of these projects will be handled by the University System Building Authority.
ADDITIONAL BUILDINGS NEEDED
The buildings that have been completed, that are under construction, and on which construction will begin soon, will by no means give the institutions of the System adequate physical plants. A few comments regarding additional facilities that should be provided are made in the section of this Report entitled Needs of the University System.
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PROPERTIES SOLD _AND Acq__UIRED
During 19 51-5 2 several institutions of the System bought additional land that was needed immediately or that will be needed for expansion in the reasonably near future. The following purchases were authorized by the Board of Regents:
University of Georgia 1. Purchase of five houses and lots known as 320, 590, 960,
I 086, and 13 24 South Lumpkin Street in the City of Athens for a total consideration of $46,175.00.
Georgia Institute of Technology 1. Purchase of property known as 128 Fifth Street, N. W., in
the City of Atlanta for $14,700.00. 2. Purchase of property known as 316 Sixth Street, N. W., in
the City of Atlanta for $11,500.00.
Georgia State College for Women 1. Purchase of lot, 115 feet by 130 feet, at corner of Mont-
gomery and Wilkinson Streets in the City of Milledgeville for $20,000.00.
Savannah State College I. Purchase of tract of 5. 8 5 acres adjoining the campus for
$13,500.00.
Georgia Experiment Station 1. Purchase of 38.22 acres of land adjoining experimental farms
of the Station for a consideration of $9,000.00.
The following conveyances of land were authorized by the Board of Regents:
1. The University of Georgia was authorized to convey to the U. S. Navy the property known as the Coordinate College of the University. The Navy has agreed to pay $450,000.00 for this property.
2. The Medical College was authorized to convey twelve acres of its campus to the State Department of Health as a site for the proposed Eugene Talmadge Memorial Hospital that will cost approximately $14,000,000.00. The hospital, when completed, will provide clinical facilities for the Medical College.
3. The Georgia Experiment Station was authorized to sell 11
acres of its farm property, fronting on U. S. Highway 41 for $12,685.00. 4. The North Georgia College was authorized to lease to the U. S. Army a tract of 110 acres of woodland for an annual rental of $700.00.
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5. The South Georgia College was authorized to convey 21.1 acres of land to the Coffee Cotrnty Board of Education. On this property will be constructed a new high school building. The conveyance was for a nominal consideration only.
6. There were several conveyances of easements and rights of way for roads, power lines, and other miscellaneous purposes. There were also several quit claim deeds for the purpose of destroying the effect of conditions contained in previous deeds given by the Board of Regents and the various boards whose duties and responsibilities the Board of Regents assumed in 1931.
GIFTS
Nine institutions of the University System report gifts received during 1951-52 in the aggregate amount of $1,289,771.96. Detailed lists of these gifts, together with the names of the donors, are contained in the annual reports of the presidents. We regret that space limitations prevent our setting forth here the names of all donors. We shall, however, indicate the amounts that each of the institutions received and mention some of the larger gifts.

GIFTS RECEIVED DURING 19 5 1- 52

University of Georgia

University in Athens ____________________ $13 6,742.73

Atlanta Division of the University____

500.00

Agricultural Extension Service__ _____ 10,681.44

Agricultural Experiment Stations ___ 222,276.54

4-H Club Foundation____________________ 60,292.90 $ 430,498.63

Georgia lnstitue of Technology-----------------------------Medical College of Georgia_____________________________________ _ Georgia Southwestern College__________________________________ West Georgia College_____________________________________________ _
Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College_________________ _ Albany State College______________________________________________ Fort Valley State College________________________________________ Sava n nab State College____________________________________________

686,527.53 165,351.29
1,000.00 667.51 200.00
3,010.50 1,155.00 1,361.50

$1,289,771.96

Among the larger gifts to the University of Georgia were the following: From the Atomic Energy Commission for Savannah River Research, $10,000.00; from the State Game and Fish Commission for work on wildlife conservation, $8,000.00; from the General Educa-

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tion Board for the Department of Art, $6,875.00; from the Georgia Forestry Commission for forestry sti'i:vey work, $30,000.00; from the U. S. Department of Health for studies in plant toxicology, $19,422.00; from Sears-Roebuck and Company for scholarships, $4,051.77.
Among contributions to the Agricultural Extension Service were a gift of $4,500.00 from Georgia Eggs, Inc., to support an egg project and a gift of $2,100.00 from the Southeastern Aromatic Tobacco Company for the support of a tobacco study.
Included in the contributions to the Agricultural Experiment Stations are the appraised values of certain lands given for use by the three new agricultural experiment substations. The Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues in Burke County gave for the use of the Burke County substation 468 acres of land valued at $21,060.00. The Gordon County Promotion and Development Association gave for the Gordon County substation 144 acres of land having a value of $35,000.00. Mr. Frank Statham and Mr. Frank Myers, as co-chairmen of the substation committee of Sumter County gave for the use of the substation in that county 455 acres of land valued at $22,800.00. The College Experiment Station received $12,000.00 from the Chilean Nitrate Company for sodium research and $13,000.00 from the U. S. Department of Agriculture for agricultural industry and beef studies. The largest gift received by the Georgia Experiment Station was $20,545.19 from the Tennessee Valley Authority for research. Among other contributions the Georgia Coastal Plain Experiment Station received $10,000.00 from the Georgia Department of Agriculture for research and $6,798.37 from the U. S. Golf Association for turf research.
The 4-H Club Foundation has received many contributions for the development of the 4-H Club project at Rock Eagle Park near Eatonton. The larger contributions were $25,000.00 from the Callaway Community Foundation, $10,000.00 from the Mills B. Lane Foundation, and $10,000.00 from the Southeast Ford Tractor Company.
Georgia Tech's largest gift was in the form of a bequest under the will of the late Mrs. Emma C. Lowry. This bequest was in the amount of $493,851.62. Other gifts included $21,000.00 from the General Education Board for the support of the School of Architecture, $10,000.00 from the General Education Board for library books, $28,177.10 from Judge S. Price Gilbert for development of the new
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library, $10,000.00 from the Delta Air Lines for scholarships, and $14,000.00 from the National Liq~efied Petr~leum Gas Association for scholarships in gas fuel technology.
In addition to the gifts whose value is included in the figures given above, there were numerous gifts of books, machinery, supplies, and miscellaneous items that have not been taken into consideration in arriving at the amount of contributions made.
During 1951-52 certain foundations made grants to the University of Georgia that will become effective in the 19 5 2-5 3 fiscal year. The General Education Board made a grant of $250,000.00 to the Department of Art payable over a period of eight years. The same foundation made a grant of $150,000.00 to the Graduate School payable over a five-year period. The Kellogg Foundation gave to the University a grant of $42,950.00. The grant was available on July 1, 19 5 2 and is to be used for the purpose of improving educational administration in the public schools of Georgia.
In addition to gifts directly to institutions there were many gifts to the Alumni Foundation of Georgia Tech and the University of Georgia Foundation. During the past year 2,746 alumni and friends of Georgia Tech contributed more than $36,000.00 to Tech's Alumni Foundation. The University of Georgia Foundation received approximately $95,000.00 in contributions during the same period. The total amount of funds held by the University of Georgia Foundation in June 1952 was $689,615.84.
Since Radio Station WGST is owned by the Regents and is operated for the benefit of the Georgia Institute of Technology, any payment by the station to Georgia Tech is hardly in the nature of a gift. Nevertheless, it might be well to mention that during the past year the station contributed $100,000.00 to the fund for the construction of the Alexander Memorial Building on the Georgia Tech campus.
We regret that we cannot include in this report the name of each person who has made a contribution during the past year for the support of any phase of the work of the University System. As has been said, these names will be found in the institutional reports. The Board of Regents is grateful for every gift that has been received and for the spirit that prompted the donor to make it.
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NEEDS OF THE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM
In the Annual Report for 1949-50 there was a statement to the effect that the sum of $12,163,000.00 was needed annually for all phases of the operations of the University System of Georgia. The General Assembly at its 1951 session provided the University System with an annual appropriation of $12,233,000.00. The present State administration has provided more generously for the University System than any other administration in the history of the State. It is with some reluctance, therefore, that we suggest certain further needs that should be met. We feel, however, that the officials of the State and the members of the General Assembly will wish to know of these needs. These needs will be mentioned under three headings.
OPERATING EXPENSES
Although substantial increases have been made in the salaries of faculty members in recent years, some further increases should be made in order that our institutions may secure and hold teachers and research workers of outstanding ability. Salaries in other educational institutions and in business and industry have continued to increase. We cannot hope to pay salaries comparable to those in some types of business and industry. In fact, teaching provides some very real compensations other than those of a pecuniary nature and these intangible compensations usually make teachers willing to accept less for college work than they could earn in other fields. The institutions of the University System should, however, be able to compete on favorable terms with the best educational institutions in America for outstanding talent. A still further upward revision in salaries is necessary in order to enable our institutions to do this.
The schools of the University System have not in the past been able to spend as much as they should for books and instructional and research equipment. As a result our libraries are comparatively weak and our equipment is deficient in both quality and quantity. A recent survey indicated that at Georgia Tech alone the sum of $500,000.00 was needed to secure the equipment that various departments should have.
The buildings of the System are in bad repair because institutions have not had funds adequate for proper maintenance. It should be borne in mind, too, that the contruction of new buildings will increase the costs of operation and maintenance.
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In spite of the need for increased funds for operating expenses, the Board of Regents has decided not to ask at thittime for any increased appropriation for these purposes. The Board believes that, in the years immediately ahead, there will be increases in the student enrollments of the various institutions of the System and that with larger enrollments will come higher incomes from fees. The Board hopes that this anticipated increase in internal income will, to a large extent, take care of the higher operating costs that are ahead.
NEW BUILDING PROGRAM
The Strayer Survey Committee in 1949 found that the new buildings needed by institutions would cost, on the basis of prices prevailing at that time, approximately $42,243,000.00. The Board later employed engineers and architects, who were specialists on plants of educational institutions, to make careful studies of existing plant facilities, the extent to which these facilities were being utilized, and the needs for additional facilities. These studies have been completed for most of the institutions of the System. On the basis of these reports, we are convinced that the cost of providing adequate physical plants for the institutions will be even higher than the Strayer Committee thought it would be. It should also be said that the requests of the presidents for new buildings are in line with the findings made in independent studies conducted under the direction of the Board.
The facts mentioned in the preceding paragraph led the Board to ask the General Assembly at its last session to increase the borrowing limit of the University System Building Authority from $20,000,000.00 to $40,000,000.00. The General Assembly raised the borrowing limit, as requested, and its action was approved by the Governor.
The University System Building Authority has already issued bonds in the amount of $13,000,000.00. It is anticipated that an additional $7,000,000.00 in bonds will be issued during the early part of 1953. The amount of rentals that the Board of Regents must pay to the Building Authority on all buildings constructed with the proceeds of the $20,000,000.00 bond issue is estimated at $1,598,136.00 per year. The Board has earmarked this amount from its current State appropriation for the payment of rentals.
The Board would like very much, however, to proceed with further construction after the present $20,000,000.00 program is completed. It would be wise, if possible. to erect, within the next two or three
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years, buildings costing an additional $20,000,000.00. The war surplus buildings that have enabled irrstitutions i:o provide for students are now falling to pieces. Within the next few years enrollments are expected to soar to heights that they have never reached before. Additional building facilities will be urgently needed.
It seems, however, that, under existing laws and regulations, the University System Building Authority cannot, in the immediate future, issue more than $6,000,000.00 in bonds over and above the $20,000,000.00 for which provision has already been made. This results from the fact that, under the bylaws of the Building Authority, rental payments by the University System cannot exceed 8 per cent of the System's total income. Until there is an increase in our gross income, the System can pay, as rentals, in any one year only about $2, I 00,000.00. Since the System will be paying approximately $1,598,136.00 when $20,000,000.00 in bonds are outstanding, the amount of additional rentals that it can pay will be only a little more than $500,000.00. Although we wish that it were possible to look forward to erection of buildings costing more than $6,000,000.00, we believe that we cannot, under existing circumstances, go beyond this amount. We hope that the Governor and the General Assembly will make it possible for us to arrange for the erection of buildings costing approximately $6,000,000.00. As has been said, this will require additional rental payments that will be slightly in excess of $500,000.00 per year. We are, therefore, asking an increase in our appropriation in the amount of $550,000.00 for this purpose. This will be a continuing appropriation until such time as the bonds are retired.
REPAIR PROGRAM
It has already been pointed out in this report that, at the beginning of the 19 51-5 2 session, it was estimated that the removal of fire hazards in buildings of the University System, as recommended by the Deputy State Fire Marshal, would cost $3,250,000.00. It was also said that the cost of taking care of deferred maintenance problems and putting all buildings into first-class condition would cost an additional $4,000,000.00. This is a total of $7,250,000.00. The expenditure of this sum is essential if we wish to provide safe buildings in which students and faculty members can live and work and if we wish to preserve our buildings and protect them from excessive depreciation.
Under its present appropriation, the Board of Regents can put approximately $1,000,000.00 per year into repair and renovation
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work. The Board spent a little more than $1,000,000.00 during 1951-52; it will spend approximately $1,000,000.00 during 195253. At the end of the current fiscal year there will be unfinished tasks that will require approximately $5,000,000.00 for completion. At the rate of $1,000,000.00 per year, it will be at least five years before the work can be finished and the work needs to be done now. These considerations have led the Board to ask the State to try to make special appropriations for placing our existing buildings into proper conditions at the earliest possible moment. The Board also needs comparatively small sums for the erection of small buildings such as warehouses, farm houses, heating plants, etc. If the Board could receive $2,450,000.00 for each of two years, all needs of this type would be met. The Board, at its meeting in October 19 5 2, decided to ask the Governor and General Assembly if they would provide $2,450,000.00 per year for the 19 5 3-5 4 and 19 54- 5 5 fiscal years. The Board would not ask for a continuance of these appropriations beyond June 30, 1955.
TOTAL AMOUNT REQUESTED FOR 1953-54 AND 1954-55
By way of summary, let me say that the requests of the Board for appropriations for 1953-54 and 1954-55 are as follows:
I. $12,233,000.00 each year for general operations. This is the amount that the University System is now receiving.
2. $550,000.00 each year for paying rentals on additional buildings, costing approximately $6,000,000.00, that the Board would like to construct through the University System Building Authority.
3. $2,450,000.00 for the 1953-54 fiscal year and a similar amount for the 19 54-5 5 fiscal year for general repairs, deferred maintenance, removal of fire hazards, and construction of small buildings of a miscellaneous nature.
CONCLUSION
Although this Report is, perhaps, longer than it should be, it has not been possible even to mention many activities of the University System and its institutions-activities that are just as important and interesting as many of those that have been discussed. We hope that those to whose work no reference has been made will not feel that they and their work have been overlooked or forgotten or that their efforts are not appreciated.
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It is the feeling of the Board of Regents and of all who work in the University System that the 1951-52 fiscal yea! was one of the best in the history of higher education in Georgia. Great forward strides were made in strengthening faculties, in improving the quality of their work, and in providing better physical facilities for faculty members and students. We are encouraged by the advances that have been made and we hope that they are only the first steps on a long upward road that will lead to a really outstanding and useful system of higher education in the State of Georgia.
The Board of Regents and all employees of the University System wish to express their deep appreciation for the sympathetic consideration that the Governor and the members of the General Assembly have given to all of their requests and for the generous provisions that they have made for the needs of the University System. The Board also wishes to thank the various State departments and State officials for their fine spirit of cooperation with the University System and for all of their helpful assistance. The Board could not wish for greater support and cooperation than it has received from these sources.
The Board would like to express its gratitude to the officials, faculty members, and employees of the University System for their conscientious efforts to provide for the people of the State the services that the people have a right to expect from their University System. No group of workers could have been more loyal to their institutions or more faithful in the performance of their duties.
And, finally, as one of the employees of the University System, let me, on behalf of all employees, thank the members of the Board of Regents for their contributions to the cause of higher education and for their services to their State and fellow citizens. The members of the Board have given generously of their time to studies of policies and problems of the University System and they have done this even though often it was at the sacrifice of their personal interests. Without a single exception, every official act of the Board has been motivated only by a desire to serve the best interests of the University System and the State. No official Board could have discharged better and more faithfully the duties with which it was entrusted.
Respectfully submitted,
HARMON W. CALDWELL Chancellor
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