Lecture by Lewis Mayhew, Professor of Education at Stanford University: Higher Education in the Seventies, Growth or Decline?, 1974., 02/26/1974.

File — Box: 1, Folder: 26

Identifier: 60265

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

Audio recordings of events or programs at or associated with Georgetown University including conferences and visits by politicians, diplomats, and clergy. Speakers include Konrad Adenauer, Eugene McCarthy, and Henry Kissinger, as well as University administrators and faculty such as Edward B. Bunn, S.J., Edmund A. Walsh, S.J., Carroll Quigley, Jan Karski, and Joseph T. Durkin, S.J.

Dates

02/26/1974.

Collection-level Access Restrictions

All published documents housed in the University Archives are open for use. Unpublished documents are governed by the following use restrictions: unpublished material dating from 1971 and later may only be consulted with the permission of the office which created it; unpublished material dating from 1970 or before may be used with the permission of the Archivist or the creating office, unless otherwise restricted.

Extent

From the Collection: 15 Linear Feet

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Container Summary

Professor Mayhew's remarks, titled "The Steady Seventies", compare the education in the 1960s to education in the 1970s. He begins by noting drops in enrollment in the 1970s, a lack of innovation on the part of institutions of higher education to meet the needs of new students, and the lower esteem in which education was held ([higher education has become] "one of the suspect institutions in a society increasingly suspicious of all major social institutions.") He ends by suggesting actions that could result in more stable enrollments and hence financial stability such as becoming distinctive, conducting market research to predict trends, and rethinking financial aid.