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Higher education'spatterns are changing;so are its leadersWhile only 11 percent of America's college graduateswent on to graduate work in 1950, about 25percent will do so after their commencement in1966. At one insti tution, over 85 percent of therecipients of bachelor's degrees now continue theireducation at graduate and professional schools.Some institutions, once regarded primarily as undergraduateschools, now have more graduate studentsthan undergraduates. Across America, another phenomenonhas occurred: numerous state collegeshave added graduate schools and become universities.There are also dramatic shifts taking place amongthe various kinds of colleges. It is often forgottenthat 877, or 40 percent, of America's colleges anduniversities are related, in one way or another, withreligious denominations (Protestant, 484; Catholic,366; others, 27). But the percentage of the nation'sstudents that the church-related institutions enrollhas been dropping fast; last year they had 950,000undergraduates, or only 18 percent of the total.Sixty-nine of the church-related colleges have fewerthan 100 students. Twenty percent lack accreditanon,and another 30 percent are considered to beacademically marginal. Partially this is becausethey have been unable to find adequate financialsupport. A Danforth Foundation commission onchurch colleges and universities noted last spring:"The irresponsibility of American churches in providingfor their institutions is deplorable. The averagecontribution of churches to their colleges is only12.8 percent of their operating budgets."Church-related colleges have had to contendwith a growing secularization in American life, withthe increasing difficulty of locating scholars with areligious commitment, and with bad planning fromtheir sponsoring church groups. About planning,the Danforth Commission report observed: IINo one~ag:;~~ti~:he operation of four Presbyterian. co 1 -fi . a, three Methodist colleges in Indiana,~e Umted Presbyterian institutions in Missouri,~tne Methodist colleges in North Carolina (includ-~:fl;w~ ~~~~new o.nes), and three Roman CatholicA;other i omen In Mi:waukee." .the chan in mpo.r~ant Shlf~ among the colleges I~r' g g POSItionof private institutions, as pubIas Institutions grow in size and number at a l11u che~S:~~I;~t~~In .1950, 50 percent of all students ~.... er:colle ' pfl~ate colleges; this year, the prt vat .h ges share IS only 33 percent. By 1975, fe,."e lt an 25 percent of all students are expected to be