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y, but 15 years ago there were roughly 120,000Negroes in college, 70 percent of them in predominantlyNegro institutions; last year, according towhitney Young, Jr., executive director of theNational Urban League, there were 220,000 Negroesin college, but only 40 percent at predorninamlyNegro institutions.enrolled in the non-public colleges and universities.Other changes are evident: More and more studentsprefer urban colleges and universities to ruralones; now, for example, with more than 400,000students in her colleges and universities, America'sgreatest college town is metropolitan New York.Coeducation is gaining in relation to the all-rnen'sand the all-wornen's colleges. And many predominantlyNegro colleges have begun to worry abouttheir future. The best Negro students are soughtafter by many leading colleges and universities, andeach year more and more Negroes enroll at integratedinstitutions. Precise figures are hard to comeTREMARKABLE GROWTH in the number ofstudents going to college and the shifting patternsof college attendance have had great impact on theadministrators of the colleges and universities. Theyhave become, at many institutions, a new breedof men.Not too long ago, many college and universitypresidents taught a course or two, wrote importantpapers on higher education as well as articles andbooks in their fields of scholarship, knew most ofthe faculty intimately, attended alumni reunions,and spoke with heartiness and wit at student dinners,Rotary meetings, and football rallies, Nowmany presidents are preoccupied with planningtheir schools' growth and with the crushing job offinding the funds to make such growth possible.Many a college or university president today is,above all else, a fund-raiser, If he is head of a privateinstitution, he spends great amounts of timesearching for individual and corporate donors; if heleads a public institution, he adds the task of legislativerelations, for it is from the legislature that thebulk of his financial support must come.With much of the rest of his rime, he is involvedin economic planning, architectural design, personnelrecruitment for his faculty and staff and curriculumchanges. (Curriculums have been changingalmost as substantially as the physical facilities,because the explosion in knowledge has been assizable as the explosion in college admissions. Wholenew fields such as biophysics and mathematicaleconomics have sprung up; traditional fields haveexpanded to include new topics such as comparativeethnic music and the history of film; and topicsthat once were touched on lightly, such as Orientalstudies or oceanography, now require extendedtreatment.)To cope with his vastly enlarged duties, the mod-