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EISENHOWER COLLEGE
HEARING
BEFORE THE
SPECIAL SUBCOMMITTEE ON EDUCATION
OF THE
COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND LABOR
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
NINETIETH CONGRESS
SECOND SESSION
ON
H.J. Res. 800
JOINT RESOLUTION TO PROVIDE FUNDS ON BEHALF OF A
GRATEFUL NATION IN HONOR OF DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER,
THIRTY-FOURTH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, TO BE
USED IN SUPPORT OF CONSTRUCTION AND ENDOWMENT OF
EISENHOWER COLLEGE, SENECA FALLS, NEW YORK, AS A
DISTINGUISHED AND PERMANENT MEMORIAL TO HIS LIFE
AND DEEDS
HEARING HELD IN WASHINGTON, D.C., JULY 10, 1968
Printed for the use of the Committee on Education and Labor
CARL D. PERKINS, Chairman
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COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND LABOR
CARL D. PERKINS, Kentucky, Chairman
EDITH GREEN, Oregon
FRANK THOMPSON, JR., New Jersey
ELMER J. HOLLAND, Pennsylvania
JOHN H. DENT, Pennsylvania
ROMAN C. PUCINSKI, Illinois
DOMINICK V. DANIELS, New Jersey
JOHN BRADEMAS, Indiana
JAMES G. O'HARA, Michigan
HUGH L. CAREY, New York
AUGUSTUS F. HAWKINS, California
SAM GIBBONS, Florida
WILLIAM D. FORD, Michigan
WILLIAM D. HATHAWAY, Maine
PATSY T. MINK, Hawaii
JAMES H. SCHEUER, New York
LLOYD MEEDS, Washington
PHILLIP BURTON, California
CARL ALBERT, Oklahoma
WILLIAM H. AYRES, Ohio
ALBERT H. QUIE, Minnesota
CHARLES E. GOODELL, New York
JOHN M. ASHBROOK, Ohio
ALPHONZO BELL, California
OGDEN R. REID, New York
EDWARD J. GURNEY, Florida
JOHN N. ERLENBORN, Illinois
WILLIAM J. SCHERLE, Iowa
JOHN DELLENBACK, Oregon
MARVIN L. ESCH, Michigan
EDWIN D. ESHLEMAN, Pennsylvania
JAMES C. GARDNER, North Carolina
WILLIAM A. STEIGER, Wisconsin
SPECIAL SUBCOMMITTEE ON EDUCATION
EDITH GREEN, Oregon, Chairman
ALBERT H. QUIE, Minnesota
OGDEN R. REID, New York
EDWARD J. GURNEY, Florida
JOHN N. ERLENBORN, Illinois
MARVIN L. ESCH, Michigan
JAMES C. GARDNER, North Carolina
JOHN BRADEMAS, Indiana
SAM GIBBONS, Florida
HUGH L. CAREY, New York
WILLIAM D. HATHAWAY, Maine
PHILLIP BURTON, California
FRANK THOMPSON, JR., New Jersey
ELMER J. HOLLAND, Pennsylvania
JAMES H. SCHEUER, New York
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CONTENTS
Page
Text of House Joint Resolution 800 1
Statement of-
Coffey, Joseph, vice president of financial development, Eisenhower
College, N.Y 16
Hickman, Dr. Warren, vice president for academic affairs, Eisenhower
College, Seneca Falls, N.Y 25
McCann, Dr. Kevin, trustee, Eisenhower College, Seneca Falls, N.Y 27
McGrath, Dr. Earl, chancellor, Eisenhower College, Seneca Falls, N.Y 17
Rosenkrans, John, Eisenhower College, Seneca Fails, N.Y 8
Stratton, Hon. Samuel S., a Representative in Congress from the
State of New York 2
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EISENHOWER COLLEGE
WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 1968
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
SPECIAL SUBCOMMITTEE ON EDUCATION OF THE
COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND LABOR,
Washington. D.C.
The subcommittee met at 9: 25 a.m., pursuant to call, in room 2261,
Rayburn House Office Building; I-Ion. Edith Green (chairman of the
subcommittee) presiding.
Present: Representatives Green, Hathaway, Scheuer, Quie, and
Erlenborn.
Staff members present: Richard Fay, subcommittee counsel; Philip
Rockefeller, minority counsel; and Rena Boyce, clerk.
Mrs. GREEN. The subcommittee will come to order for the considera-
tion of House Joint Resolution 800 introduced by our colleague,
Congressman Stratton, of New York.
(The resolution follows:)
[ll.J. Res. 800, 90th Cong., first sess.]
Joint Resolution to provide funds on behalf of a grateful nation iii honor of
Dwight D. Eisenhower, thirty-fourth President of the United States, to be
used in support of construction and endowment of Eisenhower College, Seneca
Falls, New York, as a distinguished and permanent memorial to his life and
deeds
Whereas Dwight P. Eisenhower has given a long and fall lifetime of dec11-
cated and devoted service to his country and to the free world, not only as
President of the United States, but also as Supreme Commander of the Allied
Expeditionary Force in Europe; and
Whereas President Eisenhower has always shown a deep personal interest in
and concern for education, especially while he served as head of one of the
Nation's most outstanding institutions of higher education, and as President of
the United States; and
Whereas a newly organized and distinctive small liberal arts college in Seneca
Falls, New York, scheduled to commence classes in July 1968, has been named
Eisenhower College in honor of our beloved former President; and
Whereas President and Mrs. Eisenhower have on many occasions expressed
their unremitting support for Eisenhower College because of its dedication to
education in intellectual and moral values; and
Whereas this Congress desires to express in a concrete way, and while he is
still enjoying his retirement years, the profound gratitude and appreciation of
the American people for the many services rendered to the United States by
General Eisenhower; and
Whereas this Congress believes that a contribution toward the development
of the college which bears his name, Eisenhower College, in Seneca Falls, New
York, would be an effective and meaningful living memorial to the former
President:
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury shall grant
to Eisenhower College of Seneca Falls, New York, the sum of $2,500,000, on
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condition that such funds shall be placed in trust and that the proceeds thereof
be used for awarding Eisenhower scholarships to qualified secondary school
graduates throughout the United States to assist in defraying tuition and other
expenses involved in attending Eisenhower College.
Sue. 2. The Secretary of the Treasury shall also grant to such college the sum
of $2,500,000, on condition that such funds shall be used for the construction,
operation, and maintenance of essential educational facilities, particularly those
related to the teaching of international affairs, and shall be directed to the
completion of the Eisenhower College campus at the earliest possible date.
SEC. 3. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated for the purposes of
sections 1 and 2 of this joint resolution the sum of $5,000,000.
Mrs. GREEN. This resolution would provide $5 million to Eisenhower
College in Seneca Falls, and of this, $2~5 million, if I understand it
correctly, would be put in a trust fund for Eisenhower scholarships.
It would also authorize an additional $2.5 million to Eisenhower
College for the construction and maintenance of facilities.
Congressman Stratton, we are delighted to have you this morning.
I think I will let you determine the procedure.
STATEMENT OP HON. SAMUEL 5. STRATTON, A REPRESENTATIVE
IN CONGRESS PROM THE STATE OP NEW YORK
Mr. STRATTON. Thank you. I think it would be helpful if I could
present my testimony a~s a preliminary matter, and Mr. Rosenkrans
and the other members of the college are prepared to testify on other
information that hasn't been presented to the committee.
First of all, let me express my appreciation for the opportunit.y to
appear here this morning, and for the decision of the subcommittee
to hold hearings on this legislation, which would authorize $5 million
in Federal funds for Eisenhower College, half of it to go into a
scholarship endowment fund and half into construction purposes.
I would like to give a word of explanation with respect to Eisen-
however College. It was conceived in 1962 by a group of public-spirited
citizens in Seneca Falls, N.Y.
Seneca Falls is famous in history as not only the birthplace of the
Republican Party, which may be a distinction contested by some other
locations, but also I think without any contest it is the site of the first
Equal Rights Convention for women, which was held under the spon-
sorship of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott and Amelia
Bloomer.
Susan B. Anthony doesn't feature in this particular movement, I
understand, until somewhat later.
The original idea of creating this college in the Finger Lakes re-
gion gathered support and came under the leadership of two individ-
uals, Dr. Scott Skinner, an ophthalmologist in Seneca Falls, and Mr.
John Rosenkrans, who was formerly an insurance executive in Seneca
Falls, and is now the president of the college.
Subsequently this movement for a new college which would serve
individuals who might not otherwise be able to attend college gained
support and Dr. Earl McGrath, Commissioner of Education in the
Truman administration and long recognized as an outstanding edu-
cator, assumed the academic leadership of the movement as chancellor.
Thereafter the group sponsoring the college succeeded in getting
the approval of General Eisenhower to lend his mtrne to the college,
and in addition the Presbyterian Church in upstate New York mdi-
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cated its intention to support the new college. A preliminary charter
for Eisenhower College was granted in 1966 by the Board of Regents
of the University of the State of New York, and as a result of gen-
erous loan arrangements from both the State and the Federal Gov-
ernments, four dormitory buildings have been completed, one admin-
istration and academic `building has been constructed, and one cafe-
teria and student community center is in the process of construction.
A full faculty, boasting a very large percentage of Ph. D.'s, has been
assembled under the leadership of Dr. Warren Hickman, vice presi-
dent for academic affairs, and some 250 students are scheduled to
`begin the `academic schedule in September of 1968 when the college
will open its doors.
I might just add to what is included in the formal statement, Madam
Chairman, to point `out that the association of General Eisenhower is
not strictly the superficial one of the fact that the college bears his
name. General Eisenhower has taken `a close personal in'terest in the
college since he agreed to allow his name to be `associated with the
college.
The board of trustees has met occasionally `on his farm. He attended
the ground-'breaking in 1965, and he has followed very closely the
development of the college, and Dr. Kevin McCann, who has `been
closely associated with President Eisenhower many years, is also a
member of the board of `trustees, and is here this morning, and will
testify.
Based largely on t'he generosity of local `businesses and citizens in
the Seneca Falls area, generous gifts from friends of President Eisen-
hower, generous gifts from members of the board of trustees, and the
proceeds from several nationally sponsored fund-raising programs
the college has received a total of some $3 million-and, incidentally,
another $3.5 million in loans-if my `figures are correct. But, as the
members of the subcommittee well know, colleges are expensive things
to get started these days, and even this money still has n'ot removed
from Eisenhower College the problem of meeting some difficult com-
mitments `as it `begins its `operations in September.
However, the board of trustees has recently reasserted its de-
termination to see that the college remains sound and viable, and I
am certain that this will be the case. I am myself a member of the
board of trustees, having been so designated, largely, I believe, be-
cause of my position as Congressman from the area. And I am as en-
thusiastic `as are the other members of the board with regard t'o the
future of this college.
I have with me this morning to support this legislation not only
President Rosenkrans but distinguished members of the faculty:
Dr. McGrath, the chancellor; Dr. Kevin McCann, a longtime close
associate of President Eisenhower, who is also a member of the
1)oard of trustees; and the vice president of the college for financial
development. These individuals can give the committee more details
with regard to the academic and financial situation at the moment
than I can do.
` Let me just say that in general the purpose of the college is to
provide a basic liberal-arts education with particular emphasis on
individuals who may not be as readily able to attend college because
of increasing academic requirements as those who are currently being
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accepted by our public and private institutions. This does not by any
means imply, however, that the college proposes to operate on in-
adequate academic standards, as the test scores for the class eiitering
in September will indicate. The prospectus of the college also calls
for substantial e~nphasis on international affairs, in line with the
interests and services of President Eisenhower, and will seek to train
young men and women for service in governmental and international
undertakings.
The legislation which I have introduced would make available $2.5
million to be used toward construction, operation and maintenance of
educational facilities, with the particular view that the facilities of
Eisenhower College should be completed at the earliest possible date.
An additional sum of $2.5 million would be placed in trust to be used
for awarding Eisenhower scholarships to help defray the cost of
tuition and other expenses involved for qualified secondary school
graduates throughout the United States.
The bill does not specify the way in which these graduates would
be selected, but I would assume that some impartial board, working
with the college administration, might be established for this purpose.
I recognize, Madam Chairman, that to some extent this legislation
is unique. It is the first time, so far as I know, that anyone has pro-
posed making use of a contribution to an institution of higher ecluca-
tion as a memorial to a former President of the United States. Most
of our memorials to our former Presidents have, as we in Washington
are well aware, been creations of brick and mortar; many of them,
like the WTashington Memorial and the Lincoln Monument and the
Jefferson Memorial, are imposing structures, indeed, and have played
a great and significant part in our history.
The idea, however, of a so-called living memorial is not entirely
unique in honoring our former Presidents, the most impressive ex-
ample being the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts,
which is now under construction on the shores of the Potomac, sup-
ported in part by appropriation of Federal funds.
Incidentally, $15.5 million in Federal funds are alJprOpriated for
this purpose.
I might also point out that the long-delayed difficulties in reach-
ing agreement oii a physical memorial to the late President Franklin
D. Roosevelt have also revived renewed interest in making that public
memorial, supported by the taxpayers' funds, also in the form of a liv-
ing memorial rather than a matter of brick and mortar.
House Joint Resolution 800 is also unique, I believe, in that it pro-
~os~ we should honor a former President of the United States while
lie is still alive, rather than wait until lie has Passed on. Frankly, I
think this is a sensible change. I believe that we should honor our
former Presidents while they are still alive to appreciate the honor
that is being paid to them and while they still have a chance to smell
the roses, so to speak.
Actually, even in this case, my proposal may not be completely
unique; because I believe that in the organization and construction of
the Roosevelt Library in Hyde Park and the Truman Library in In-
dependence, Mo., some expenditure of public funds has been made
to establish these libraries, which to some extent are also memorials,
from the Public Treasury during the lifetime of the President in-
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votved. So that, while my proposal may be some new departure, I do
not think that it is by any means an unacceptable one. I believe that
close friends of General Eisenhower would agree with me that it would
be more appropriate that this honor be paid to the general while he is
still with us.
Finally, there may be some precedent involved in the fact that this
legislation would designate a contribution of Federal funds to one
particular college. At least, if this is not entirely unique, it does become
perhaps somewhat more controversial at a time when all American
colleges and particularly those in a private sector are experiencing
difficulties in raising funds and are competing vigorously with one an-
other for such funds as are available. I am told that some educators
oppose this legislation and for this very reason have felt that any Fed-
eral funds that are available, over and above those which are included
in our regular higher education legislation, should be made available
to all colleges and not just to Eisenhower College.
In all candor, I must say that I feel that this argument is based
on a misunderstanding. The real question here, as I see it, is whether
the Nation's primary and permanent memorial to a great former Presi-
dent of the United States is to be made in the form of a living memo-
rial to some educational institution or whether it is to be made on a
more conventional basis in terms of some monument or other physical
structure.
If this resolution is rejected or if this resolution is not reported out
favorably, the alternative will be to construct at some appropriate
time another memorial, either here in Washington or somewhere else,
to the memory of President Eisenhower. It certainly will not be to
provide Federal funds for some college other than Eisenhower CollegeS
I happen to believe that a living memorial does make sense, and I
happen to believe that a contribution to education makes the most
sense of all as a. memorial to a. distinguished President who did a great
deal for education and who throughout his lifetime served for a number
of years as President of one of the Nation's great universities.
If this re.solution is to be enacted and the designation of assistance
to a college is to be recognized as a suitable form of memorial for
a Presideiit. of the United States, or even other distinguished citizens,
the net effect will certainly be better for education in general than if
this resolution were to be rejected and we were to focus our attention
solely on bricks and mortar.
So I think that those who are opposing this resolution, if there are
any, on the. ground that it only directs its funds to one college rather
than all colleges, are in the long run being shortsighted with respect to
the future of education.
If a living educational memorial is to be made, then obviously the
college which bears Eisenhower's name, and one in which lie has taken
such a great interest, is the one and logical institution for this kind of
assistance.
I believe that others who are here to testify this morning are in a
position to indicate that President Eisenhower would be honored by
this kind of recognition and that he certainly would feel that a memo-
rial such as is contained in House Joint Resolution 800, if it is ap-
proved, should be the one and only memorial approved by Congress
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I hardly believe that I need to dwell on the contributions of Pres-
ident Eisenhower to our Nation, to the free world, and to `the unity
and commonsense of America. We are all grateful to him for what
he has done, and probably no President of the United States in recent
memory has ever held or continues to hold such a profound grasp on the
affection and the admiration of the American people. I believe that we
would do well to recognize our debt of gratitude to President Eisen-
hower now while he can appreciate our actions, and I urge this coin-
mittee to give speedy approval to House Joint Resolution 800.
Mrs. GREEN. Thank you very much, Congressman Stratton.
I must say that I agree with you that living memorials make a
great deal more sense than slabs of concrete.
Do you believe that if this $5 million were appropriated by the
Congress it would be indeed the only memorial, or do you think that
efforts would still be made for other memorials
Mr. STRATTON. I think this would certainly have to be part of the
legislative history of the legislation, as far as the Congress is concerned.
And as far as the Federal Government is concerned, this would be the
memorial to President Eisenhower.
~Te couldn't, of course, enjoin others from raising funds on a volun-
tary basis for some other form of memorial. But, as I say, it is my
understanding of those who are close to President. Eisenhower that
this would be his wish, although obviously he can't come clown here
and urge this committee to approve funds for a memorial to him.
I think we certainly ought to make it clear in the report and in the
legislative history that this would be the only memorial.
Mrs. GREEN. What did you say is the Federal contribution to the
Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts?
Mr. STRATTON. My information is that it was $15.5 million, which
was appropriated in Federal funds in 1964, on the 7th of July. It was
authorized on January 23, with $15.5 million authorized for design
and construction. Then on July 7th, $15.5 million was appropriated,
to be matched by private gifts, and $2.1 million appropriated for land
acquisition.
Mrs. GREEN. What was the Federal contribution to Hyde Park? Do
you have that?
Mr. STRATTON. I haven't been able to track that down, and I am
speaking more from general impression with respect to the Roosevelt
Library than on the basis of any figures.
However, over the years there has been appropriated a fairly
substantial amount of money for the development of the Roosevelt
Memorial, some $285,000 for the work of the Memorial Commission,
until recently headed by our former colleague from New York, Mr.
Kehoe, starting in August 1955 and going down to $80,000 appro-
priated in the 89th Congress on the 31st of May.
In that connection, I might also point out, Madam Chairman, that
$1.89 million was appropriated for the Kennedy gravesite in Arling-
ton, that some $750,000-$725,000--was appropriated by Congress for
the completion of the Washington Monument, that $3.375 million was
appropriated for the construction of the Jefferson Memorial, that $5,000
was appropriated for a suitable monument at Jefferson's grave at
Monticello, that $2 million was appropriated for the Lincoln Me-
morial, not including an additional $75,000 for certain improvements
to the reflecting pool.
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$15,000 was appropriated for a statue for Lincoln, $31,000 to buy
the Peterson House in Washington where he died, another $3,800 to
repair it, some $250,000 appropriated for the Mount Rushmore Na-
tional Memorial honoring Presidents Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln,
and Theodore Roosevelt, and some $40,000 was appropriated for the
Theodore Roosevelt National Memorial in North Dakota, and another
$35,000 for a monument there.
The National Park Service, of course, also maintains `at public ex-
pense the Theodore Roosevelt Island on the Potomac as a public park,
to which a monument has recently been added. $250,000 was appro-
priated for the Grant Memorial in New York City and $7,500 was ap-
propriated in 1882 as a memorial t'o the late President Garfield in this
city. These figures are all from the Library of Congress. There was
the marker placed in the front of the National Archives Building as
a memorial to Franklin Roosevelt, whose cost has not been obtained.
Mrs. GREEN. We know both college construction and operating costs
are increasing.
If Congress were to make this investment of $5 million, do you see
this as the `only Federal contribution, or do you see this `as the first of
many continuing contributions?
Mr. STRATTON. As I have already indicated, the college has already
benefited from one or two loans from the Federal Government for
academic facilities `under the provisions of the Higher Education Act
of 1965.
I would assume that the college would reque'st and probably qualify
for other `help under the general higher education statutes approved by
Congress and to be approved `in the future. But I would certainly not
visualize any `additional funds coming from Congress in `the future.
I don't suppose we could bind a future Congress, but I think that this
particular action would and should represent the memorial, `and from
then on the college `ought to be on its own.
Mrs. GREEN. Congressman Erlenborn, do you have any questions?
Mr. ERLENBORN. I have no q'uestions.
Mrs. GREEN. Congressm'an Hathaway?
Mr. HATHAWAY. What was the total construction cost?
Mr. STRATTON. Well, the college is in the process `of being built. I
would-I am not `sure that I can give you the `total cost `to date. WTe have
as I have said, collected in `terms of gifts and `loans something on `the
order of `almost $7 million, `and a good share of that h'as been invested
in the construction costs.
I think President R'osenkrans c'an probably give you those figures
more accurately than I can.
Mr. HATHAWAY. Let me ask you one more qnesti'on.
I am in agreement with you that we `should be `construc'ting living
memorials, but shouldn't we screen several alternatives before we make
the decision that this is to be the living memorial to President Eisen-
hower?
Mr. STRATTAN. First of all, this `is a specific piece of legislation,
which was referred properly to this committee and to `this subcom-
mittee.
If we were going to get in the business of looking at memorials, this
would probably have to be somebody else's responsibility. I am not
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sure that it would even be Congress's responsibility unless some legis-
lation were put before us to that effect.
Secondly, the experience of the Roosevelt Memorial, I think, is rather
illustrative of the difficulties that you can get into. President Roose-
velt died 25 years ago, and yet we still haven't reached any agreement
on how we should memorialize him.
The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts was presented to
Congress as an idea. Congress didn't shop around for other memorials.
\~Te accepted it as the memorial to President Kennedy, and I have
made this proposal to this Congress as a suitable memorial to Presi-
dent Eisenhower.
You may think it is perhaps odd that I should he the one to make
the suggestion with regard to memorializing a great Republican Presi-
dent, but I think, as others are prepared to testify this morning, it
will indicate that this is the wish of those close to President Eisen-
hower. And I think it is something that is shared insofar as the
recipient of this kind of honor can be said to share this kind of idea,
by the former President himself.
I think we have to act on specific proposals rather than undertake
a quest for something we know not what.
Mr. HATHAWAY. Thank you.
Mrs. GREEN. Thank you very, very much, Congressman Stratton.
You are a very persuasive spokesman -for this particular cause.
Mr. STRATTON. Thank you very much, Madam Chairman.
Mrs. GREEN. President Rosenkrans? We are delighted to have you
come before the committee this morning. We would like to have your
views, and I am sure we do have additional questions.
STATEMENT OF JOHN ROSENKRANS, EISENHOWER COLLEGE,
SENECA FALLS, N.Y.
Mr. ROSENTiRANS. Thank you, Madam Chairman and members of
the committee.
It is my great privilege to serve as President of Eisenhower Col-
lege, as well as to represent the trustees, the faculty and administra-
tion in this hearing on the resolution under consideratiOn, which will
provide in most fitting manner enduring honor to General Eisenhower
* by underwriting the accelerated advancement of the college which
bears his name.
The organizing committee and the successor trustees have acted in
the belief that the finest way to offer permanent recall of the great
contributions to humanity of this distinguished citizen-soldier is to
build in his name a small college of distinction, the general attributes
of which he has so often spoken with conviction and admiration.
Recognizing that much is yet to be accomplished, we believe that we
have in being just such a college, situated in Seneca Falls, N.Y., oii a
wonderful 265-acre campus bordering Cayuga Lake.
When he joined in the college groundbreaking on September 21,
1965, General Einsenhower, as part of more extensive remarks said:
I came here only to tell you something of the pride I feel in the action of
certain dedicated men, and many others who agreed with them, in establishing
a most needed college, in the United States and in this particular region, and
that they found fit to give my name to that institution.
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The `liberal-arts college, in my opinion, is the key to the understanding and
the exercise of real citizenship.
I believe that the liberal college should seek its natural habitat in the rural
areas.
This is an honor that will be prized by me every day of my life, for I can
think of no greater monument to any man than a college bearing his name; an
institution which will be a vital, vigorous champion of freedom through proper
education.
It is particularly appropriate that a college should be named for
General Eisenhower. Following V-E Day he expressed the thought
that he would enjoy serving in a small college following his retirement
from the Army. History provided otherwise, but his sentiments were
and still are sympathetic to the cause and to the value of the small
college.
It would have been easier to start the college in temporary quar-
ters, but it was our judgment, out of respect for the general, that we
should open the college only with new and properly designed facilities.
Further, it was our judgment to move ahead before total financing was
secured. It was our wish to realize the college as soon as possible, so that
he might enjoy the sense of accomplishment during his lifetime. This
is underway.
We also know from his communications how much each step of
progress has meant to him. Because of his great interest in youth, we
also know how much he has anticipated the arrival of the first stu-
dents, for he has planned all along to greet them personally early this
fall.
With five completed buildings and a sixth started 1 month ago, we
are ready to receive our first class of freshmen on September 1, 1908.
The college faculty has been appointed, and as of yesterday 203
students have completed preregistration for the charter freshman class.
Uniformly, they express delight in being pioneers at Eisenhower
College. At the current iate of acceptance, we expect that our first
class will exceed 250 students.
Fortunately for me, I have been a part of the college organization
since the "idea" was conceived by my fellow townsman, physician Dr.
Scott `V. Skinner, who then joined with me in obtaining General
Eisenhower's acceptance of the proposal to give his name to the college.
I can attest to the sincerity and generosi*t.y of the citizens of Seneca
Falls and the Finger Lakes region in creating the college to fill higher
educational needs, as well as to pay tribute to General Eisenhower.
Dr. Earl J. McGrath, chancellor of the college, and three others of
my administrative colleagues, Messrs. Coffee, 1-Iickman and Mayer,
join me here today to make known to you the current status and future
prospects of Eisenhower College. The distinctive qualities of `the col-
lege program, as well as the belief in its need and feasibility, are much
the result of Dr. McGrath's early counseling with the organizing
committee. Based on Dr. McGrath's proposals, the college was awarded
the first charter in 30 years to a coeducational, liberal-arts college by
the Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York.
Recognized candidate status has been granted by the Middle States
Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. This, again, is much~
the result of Dr. McGrath's educational program.
Our association with Dr. McGrath was inspiring, for his commit-
ment to strengthening of the liberal arts was most persuasive and
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supported so convincingly the beliefs of the organizers. More than that,
he argued for a faculty devoted to teaching undergraduates. His cham-
pioning of the small college has been fulfilled at Eisenhower.
The curriculum developed since by Dr. Warren L. Hickman, vice
president for academic affairs, draws strongly on Dr. McGrath's
recommendations that every undergraduate student should be required
to take interdisciplinary courses in world studies to give him or her
understanding of world literature, philosophy, economics, political
science, history, art and music and, basic to all, an understanding of
the differences and similarities in the great cultures of the world.
Because it is timely and because we believe in it, we will be completely
international in our approach to the liberal arts tradition.
Contrary to popular opinion that there is a shortage of able college
faculty, committed to teaching as first priority, Dr. Hickman has en-
listed a complete first-year staff. Their academic credentials were
earned and their extensive experience gained at some of the most
prestigious colleges and universities in the world, yet they join Eisen-
hower College eagerly for the opportunity to share in creating a new
program which recognizes the essential teaching role of faculty in an
undergraduate college. In extension, I attach to this statement a copy
of our faculty directory and a copy of our bulletin, which is description
of our undergraduate program.
I also attach a copy of a recent presentation made to the Xerox Corp.
In it and in similar proposals to other corporations and foundations is
our statement of belief and commitment regarding the involvement of
disadvantaged youth in Eisenhower College right from the start. We
recognize the unusual circumstances which permit us to assume our
share of this national responsibility, and we have high hopes that we
will obtain adequate funding for this program in time to make offers
of admission to promising students already identified.
Mrs. Green and gentlemen, the reality of our situation is that we
have not yet acquired sufficient assets to assure potential large donors
of the viability of the college. Over 10,000 gifts and grants have been
made since 1964. They total $3,124,138, yet the largest gift is $100,000.
Early in our efforts we had expectations of one or more million dol-
lar gifts, which have not been realized. We still have hopes of such
substantial gifts, but the lack of any of them inhibits the first one from
being offered. It `has `been necessary to implement other means of at-
tracting numerous small gifts. In that regard we have been successful,
but the thrust of Eisenhower College can become forceful only if we
win major financial commitments now.
In that context, the legislation under consideration would provide
meaningful and convincing testimony to all observers that the college
was assured of adequate financing to proceed with its essential addi-
tional construction and to initiate the Eisenhower scholarship pro-
gram, which will do so much to bring deserving students to the college.
The public attention given to both announcements will surely broaden
popular understanding of the character and purpose of the college,
therthy drawing other students to the college as well as inspiring con-
fidence in prospective donors that their generosity will be significant
in a cause with sta~bility and assurance of long-term success.
You can see that we have made substantial progress in financing a
~o1lege without `a typical alumni constituency or a large business and
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industrial community capable of major underwriting. We are ready to
fulfill the promise of this new institution, aiid we have faith that the
prospects for the future-with continued effort by everyone involved-
are favorable.
The enclosed report on current admissions is in many ways a suc-
cess story. To achieve as much as we have in our first year, overcoming
all of the difficulties in making the college known to graduating sen-
iors who are impressed with the `traditional colleges, is in itself a fine
commentary on the program we `have offered. To do this in a year when
the nunther of 18-year-olds was at its lowest in recent years permits me
to claim this as a success story.
We are hardly alone among colleges in the country with empty seats
expected in the coming academic year. However, with a growing pooi
of college applicants next year and the years ahead due to a growing
birth rate and with a growing percentage of our college-age youth who
will seek a college education, we plan our program for future years
with confidence. Already over 700 have indicated a desire to attend
Eisenhower College in September 1969. For many reasons I expect
that we will have at least 2,000 qualified applicants for admission next
year from which to select our class of 400. Similarly, we will be able
to add able faculty as we need them from the growing number who
have sought appointment.
The financial projection `attached, covering the next 8 academic
years, offers hope, with increasing gift success, of balancing our opera-
tional budget and permitting the excess to `be used to help complete
our projected campus for 1,500 students.
It will be some years before that date arrives, but we ha.ve sur-
mounted all of the other major obstacles and feel, on the eve of open-
ing, that the investment in higher educational opportunity offered by
House Joint Resolution 800 will rebound to the benefit of a large num-
ber of student~s over the years while insuring the character and per-
manence of this national tribute to Dwight David Eisenhower.
I am grateful for your indulgence and for your consideration.
Mrs. GREEN. Thank you very much, President Rosenkrans.
The total investment at this time is $5 million?
Mr. ROSENKRANS. As of the present, it is $4.7 million in the plant,
but we have under construction, started a month ago, another $2.2
million. So, `actually, it is roughly $7 million, either completed in
plant investment or underway.
Mrs. GREEN. What do you estimate your total investment will be in
~he next 10 years?
Mr. ROSENKRANS. In buildings and equipment, roughly $20 million,
Mrs. GREEN. And you will serve how many students?
Mr. ROSENKRANS. 1,500. These are projections.
Mrs. GREEN. Within 10 years?
Mr. ROSENKRANS. Yes.
Mrs. GREEN. Do you think that $20 million is a realistic figure?
Mr. ROSENKRANS. We hope so. That would depend upon the economy
and inflation, and so forth, but we are hoping it would be. That is our
projection at the moment.
Mrs. GREEN. Where do you expect the rest of the money to come
from?
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Mr. ROSENKRANS. From gifts, yes. Possibly from State construction
funds through the dormitory authority, and private funds.
Mrs. GREEN. Do you have any endowment at all?
Mr. ROSENKRANS. Essentially, no. I think we have perhaps $15,000
or$16,000, roughly-that is all we have in endowment funds.
Mrs. GREEN. I notice you have funds from HEW and HUD.
Have you received accreditation?
Mr. R.OSENKRANS. 1~\Te have the accreditation status, which is the
most advanced status we can receive until we graduate one class.
Mrs. GREEN. How did you receive that, on the basis that other
colleges would receive your credits?
Mr. ROSENKRANS. That was part of it. We made application to the
Middle States Association, and it was through their examination
and their visitations that we were able to receive that status, which
is the most advanced possible until we have graduated at least one
class.
Mrs. GREEN. I think that one of the primary concerns to the. Mein-
bers of Congress would be some assurance that there is going to be
a way to finance the college. I think they would be very reluctant to
invest $5 million unless they had the assurance there were funds avail-
able from other sources for future costs.
Do you see this $5 million as the only special contribution the
Congress would make? I am not talking about the eligibility of Eisen-
hower College to participate in other Federal programs for higher
education, but do you see this $5 million as the only special contribu-
tion Congress would be called upon to make? Or do you see this a.s the
first of many continuing contributions?
Mr. R.OSENKRANS. No, I would see this as the only contribution that
they would be asked to make.
Mrs. GREEN. My concern stems from the realization of the spiraling
costs. Twenty million dollars is not much in the. way of an investment
in a college. And I would be concerned that if Eisenhower College got
into financial difficulty, the Congress, once having macic an invest-
ment of $5 million, would be pressured not to let a memorial to a.
great President die, and would be asked to help the college survive. I
t.hink that would be of concern to the Members.
Mr. ROSENKRANS. I appreciate your posit.ion. I think with the
enrollment, the faculty, and the construction that is already under-
way with these funds, that it would assure the college going forward
and would give it the necessary basic financing to go forward, partic-
ularly during these initia.l 2 or 3 years, which a.re going to be more
difficult because of a limited enrollment.
Our efficiency, as you can appreciate, would be much less during
the first few years when we only have the college partially filled with
freshmen, and adding a sophomore class and a class a year for the
first 2 or 3 years. They are difficult years.
Mrs. GREEN. How many members do you have on your faculty?
Mr. ROSENKRANS. We have 23.
Mrs. GREEN. And you want to open in September of t.his year?
Mr. ROSENKRANS. Yes, September of this yea.r.
Mrs. GREEN. And you will have 23 on the faculty at that time?
Mr. R.OSENKRANS. Yes; they have already been enlisted, and some
of them are on the scene now working on curriculum development.
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Mrs. GREEN. Of the 23, how many have Ph. D.'s?
Mr. BOSENKRANS. I believe 17.
Mrs. GREEN. You are offering work in what areas?
Mr. ROSENKRANS. We are working in three divisions, the division of
humanities, social sciences, and natural and physical sciences.
Dr. McGrath and Dr. Hickman are both here, too, and would be
happy to speak to any of the questions on the academic program in
detail.
Mrs. GREEN. Thank you.
Do you have questions, Congressman Quie?
Mr. QUIE. One question, which may have been covered before I came
in.
How did it happen that the college chose the name "Eisenhower
College" and became connected with the President?
Mr. ROSENKRANS. Well, the man who had the original idea for the
college is a physician, an ophthalmologist, Scott Skinner. He thought
that this would be a proper and suitable way of honoring General
Eisenhower, a great American who served the country with dis-
tinction in many areas. That was really his original thought on it.
And we worked for several years on the feasibility of the college,
working with Dr. McGrath.
Before General Eisenhower agreed to this, he examined it closely,
as did his brother and his people, as to what the program was designed
to be, before he would agree to have his name used in connection with
the college.
Mr. QrnE. Did you anticipate at that time, or did the people involved
in originating the college anticipate at that time that it would be de-
sirable or iiecessary to come to the Congress for assistance in its cou-
struction?
Mr. ROSENKRANS. No; back in early 1962 that wasn~t a point of
consideration at that time.
Mr. QUJE. What if some other college chose to use the name of Gen-
eral Eisenhower? Do you think that they would have the same right
to come in for $5 million?
Mr. ROSENKRANS. I would doubt it, because they would not have
obtained the name with his permission. We have in writing from him,
and we have applied for a trademark for the name. It hasn't been
granted yet, but we do have a letter on file with the Government, with
the Patent Office, to indicate that this would be the only educational
institution beyond the secondary level that would be named in honor
of Dwight David Eisenhower.
Mr. QUIE. So then you are protected against anyone else?
Mr. ROSENKRANS. I don't know all the legalities of it. I am not so
sure we are that solid. I know that as far as the general is concerned,
we are protected, and we have it in writing from him.
I am not so sure, if you got into a court case-it hasn't come
about yet, and it couldn't come about with his permission. It hasn't
come about in the 6 years we have been working on it.
Mr. QIJIE. From what has happened in the past, has there been
any similar grant of money to a university bearmg the name of a
President?
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Mr. ROSENKRANS. Congressman Stratton went through some of the
appropriations for programs in memory of Presidents of the United
States. I am not sure any of it went directly to a college.
Mr. `Qu~. I know we couldn't get that monument built out here for
George Washington for a long time.
Mr. ROSENKRANS. He mentioned many monuments, and the Kennedy
Center for the Performing Arts.
Possibly, money may have gone to Washington College. I am not
sure Of that. That would be way back in history, if that was the case.
I don't know of anything in recent years.
Mr. QrnE. Back when George Washington University was called
Columbia University, there may have been money, which I seem to
recollect. That is the only thing I remember.
I have no additional questions.
Mrs. Gm~EN. Congressman Hathaway.
Mr. HATHAWAY. Is this your catalog I have here, the college bulletin?
Mr. ROSENKRANS. Yes, for the coining year.
Mr. HATHAWAY. What do you have in the philosophy programs?
There is no breakdown of various courses. Is that right?
Mr. ROSENKRANS. Not in this bulletin, but Dr. Hickman would be
pleased to speak on any course descriptions, and could do that better
than I could.
We have a regular catalog that is in process with the printers now.
Mr. HATHAWAY. Would you make that `available to the subcommittee
when it is available?
Mr. R05ENKRAN5. Yes, we would be happy to.
Mr. HATI-IAWAY. As a result of your efforts to get the $5 million,
do you have any pledges from other people that if you are success-
ful they will match it in `any way?
Mr. ROSENKRANS. Not formalized in writing, no. That is-we have
verbal indications from people that with this kind of financial stability
that substantial additional private funds will come forward, `but we
have nothing like that which we could present in writing to the com-
mittee.
Mr. HATHAWAY. Are you making an effort along that line?
Mr. ROSENKRANS. Oh, yes. We have an on-going development pro-
gram.
Mr. HATHAWAY. I notice Bob Hope's picture was in the ground
breaking-he is a fairly wealthy individual. Is lie making contribu-
tions?
Mr. ROSENKRANS. Yes, he has. And we are hoping that this will
contmue.
Mr. HATHAWAY. How did he happen to make a contribution?
Mr. BOSENKRANS. He did so on his own volition. He attended the
groundbreaking with General Eisenhower and other people, and also
as cochairman of the committee, along with Secretary Robert Ander-
son, to help raise some funds. As a result, lie has given on two oc-
casions his own money to the college, and we are hoping that others
will follow.
Mr. HATHAWAY. What interest did he have? Did he do it on his
own, or-
Mr. ROSENKRANS. He was contacted `and was asked to attend the
groundbreaking, and did so out of his respect and friendship for
General Eisenhower.
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Mr. HATHAWAY. Thank you very much.
Mrs. GREEN. Congressman Erlenborn.
Mr. ERLENBORN. I notice a program to involve the disadvantaged
student at Eisenhower College. Is the college organized in any way
to render special services to the disadvantaged? Is it designed partic-
ularly for the disadvantaged student, or is it just a general liberal arts
college?
Mr. ROSENKRANS. That is correct, and we would hope to be able, as
funds become available, to have as many of the disadvantaged attend
the college as possible, but so far as any special physical facilities or
anything of that sort is concerned, no. But we would have-as Con-
gressman Stratton is indicating, if we had this scholarship program
available, much of that could go to disadvantaged students, and to
provide tutorial help for these students to bring them along and make
it possible for them to do the college-level work.
Mr. ERLENBORN. Have you collected any funds for this scholarship
program?
Mr. ROSENKRANS. Yes, we do have some funds. We have received
some funds from foundations that would help with a few people,
but not for the numbers that we would be able to reach.
Mrs. GREEN. Congressman Scheuer?
Mr. SCHETJER. No questions.
Mr. QUIE. Could I ask one other question?
Mrs. GREEN. Yes.
Mr. QuIE. What will be the tuition, fees, and so forth charged to
the students?
Mr. ROSENKRANS. For the entering class, the tuition and fees are
$1,800; room and board is $1,200. And they are guaranteed for the
4 years needed to obtain a degree, so that they won't be increased during
those years.
Mrs. GREEN. I thought I saw $1,000 per year tuition.
Mr. ROSENKRANS. It should have shown $1,800. It is tuition and fees
that are $1,800. That might have been for one semester.
Mr. QuiE. Fall, $1,000; spring, $800. And that would be $1,800?
Mr. ROSENKRANS. The $1,000 would be the tuition for the fall semes-
ter and the January project, and then $800 for the spring semester.
Mrs. GREEN. Do you have 250 students who have indicated they are
going to attend?
Mr. ROSENKRANS. As of yesterday, we have 203, and based on the
number of applications that are in process, we expect we will open with
about 250 in September.
Mr. ERLENBORN. Could I ask one further question?
Mrs. GREEN. Yes.
Mr. ERLENBORN. How many disadvantaged students have you en-
rolled in your first class?
Mr. ROSENKRANS. I believe, as of now, about four or five are all
that we have.
Mr. ERLENBORN. Are they drawn from the immediate area?
Mr. ROSENKRANS. Well, by the "immediate area," I would say
New York City, Washington, South Carolina. "No" would be the
answer to that.
Mr. ERLENBORN. Would all of the students be living on campus, or
would you have day students as well?
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Mr. ROSENKRANS. Well, of the 203 that are coming now, all but five
will be resident students. It is a residential college.
Mr. ERLENBORN. Thai~k you.
Mrs. GREEN. Thank you very much.
Mr. ROSENKRANS. Would you care to see just quickly some photo-
graphs of the buildings?
Mr. STRATTON. I might say, Madam Chairman, that these buildings
are the most attractive ones I have ever seen. And if the students saw
the college, they would sign up right away. They are very modern
buildings.
The landscaping isn't in. The dormitories are really very unusual.
Mr. Qrnn. Is it on a hill?
Mr. STRATTON. No, it is kind of flat.
Mr. ROSENKRANS. We have some lake frontage. It. adjoins the lake.
Mrs. GREEN. I have never been aware of Seneca Falls other than
the Women's Party having met there. I was unaware of the other-
or refused to accept it.
Mr. ROSENKRANS. It is the undisputed home of women's sufferage.
Mr. ERLENBORN. Are you speaking of the claim that this was the
birthplace of the Republican Party?
Mrs. GREEN. That is what I was referring to.
Mr. STRATTON. The city of Waterloo was designated as the birth'
place of Memorial Day, and I think that Seneca Falls, perhaps in self-
defense, claimed itself as the birthplace of the Republican Party. But
T don't think that was well documented.
Mrs. GREEN. This business of Waterloo bothers me, if we make a $5
million initial investment. [Laughter.]
Mr. Coffey, do you have things that you would like to add to this?
STATEMENT OF ~1OSEPH COFFEY, VICE PRESIDENT OP FINANCIAL
DEVELOPMENT, EISENHOWER COLLEGE, SENECA FALLS, N.Y.
Mr. COFFEY. Briefly, Madam Chairman.
Mrs. GREEN. Mr. Coffey is financial vice president.
We welcome you.
Mr. COFFEY. In simple terms, that means fundraising. You are all
subject to appeals from your colleges and universities, and you Irnow
it has to be a persistent practice. But in our case we don't have a guar-
anteed constituency from which to appeal for our funds.
But I am very hopeful, because of the 10,000 or so contributors we
have already acquired, that this group will grow.
But you asked earlier, Madam Chairman, as to our prospects for
financing the college in the future, and it would seem to me that favor-
able action on this resolution would assist the college greatly in having
clear identification of Eisenhower College as the only memorial for
General Eisenhower, so that in the years ahead, the long years ahead,
the philanthropic action of individuals would be encouraged to give
to this college by this action.
We have seen in many, many cases already that the inquiries we
have had about preparation of wills, the simple action of a little lady
the other day, a 94-year-old lady, in designating that a savings ac-
count should be turned over to the college. She no longer needed it.
We believe that we are acquiring the interest at the moment of great
numbers of people in the college, and in the quality of the program.
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Hopefully, much of that interest will be translated into gifts and be-
quests as time goes along. Certainly that is part of our function, to try
to cultivate that kind of belief and confidence.
With regard to the question about the disadvantaged, if we are
thinking only of black students with the label of "disadvantaged," I
would say we have five or six now committed. However, the funds we
have appropriated for scholarships would have covered some white
disadvantaged students as well.
I would say the proposal we are making there is principally ad-
dressed to the assistance that can be given to black disadvantaged stu-
dents, although we don't intend to limit it as such. But I can tell you
that Shell Oil Foundation, New York Foundation. and others that
we have discussed this proposal with-unfortunately it comes late
in their year period of allocation for us to acquire funds for the com-
ing academic year.
But these foundations have indicated a very substantial interest in
assisting us to go forward with this in the following year. We are
hopeful that the Xerox Corp., because of their great commitment in
this area, will supply funds for us so that we may underwrite scholar-
ship assistance for disadvantaged students in the coming class.
The principal point here is that we have identified already 30 `black
disadvantaged students who would qualify with the proper kind of
precollege counseling this summer, probably an intensive 2-week period
prior to college. Those have been identified for us by young graduate
black students, university students, who are anxious to work with
us, because they think we do have a chance of working with the
disadvantaged in a small student body, in a concept that we call
"relatedness," which is described there.
There is no magic in percentages, but we are talking in terms of 10
percent of this first class that would be black disadvantaged student.
Those are the only two points that I have at the moment, Madam
Chairman, but I would say that the prospects for fund-raising in the
future are unpredictable, even as they are at Harvard.
However, we have great hopes that the interest we have will mature
into bequests and gifts as the years go along. There is enough we have
had already that encourages us to think that this will multiply in sub-
stantial fashion.
Mrs. GREEN. Mr. Erlenborn ?
Mr. ERLENBORN. I have no questions.
Mrs. GREEN. May we hear from Dr. McG-rath, the friend of many of
us on this committee?
Welcome back. We haven't seen you in quite a while.
Mr. McGrath is the chancellor of the Eisenhower College.
STATE1\~ENT OP DR. EARL McGRATH, CHANCELLOR, EISENHOWER.
COLLEGE, SENECA FALLS, N.Y.
Dr. MCGRATH. Madam Chairman, I will try to work my remarks
around what has already `been said and what I expect others will say
so `as not to overlap with other people.
First, I would like to make the general statement that this country
needs many more colleges, in spite of the fact that we have some 2,500.
They are not entirely equipped to handle the coming enrollments.
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Moreover, this is a personal prejudice, Madam Chairman. I think
we need many more small colleges, `and by this I mean under 2,000,
because I believe they have special functions to perform, and they
do things that the larger institutions can not do. These smaller institu-
tionS can perform special teaching functions.
Thirdly, Madam Chairman, I would like to say that the foundations
and the Health, Education, and Welfare Department are particularly
interested in innovations. They feel that the going programs of higher
education in the country will not `be adequate to suit all the needs or
fill all the needs of the coming decades. They feel that innovations in
operation and management, and efficiency in curriculum, all these
things will have to occur if we are going to support this enter-
prise of higher education. And this institution I consider to be an
innovative institution.
May I add just oiie other thing, Madam Chairman? Nothing I
could say would add any acclaim to General Eisenhower, and his
illustrious career, especially in the military. But I would like to point
out something that I think no one else would refer to today, and that
is 1968 is the 10th anniversary of the enactment of NDEA, which, as
you and I know, was the first activity on the part of the Federal
Government to give large support to higher education, and not over-
looking the Land-Grant Act of 1862.
But while I was Commissioner, we were constantly trying to get
the Government to make larger appropriations for higher education.
This was accomplished in 1958, under General Eisenhower's ad-
ministration, and I am reliably informed that there is activity under-
way to symbolize and signalize this event by some public occasion in
the coming months.
This is a personal opinion, Madam Chairman. I would like to sug-
gest that there could be no more fitting way for the Government of
the United States to signalize the enactment of the NDEA legislation,
and to signalize General Eisenhower's contribution to that legislation
than by making this appropriation to Eisenhower College.
My primary iiiterest in this institution, as you would expect, is
largely educational. It was on that basis that I got interested in the
college in the first place, and that has been my continuing interest.
I would like to point out, therefore, Madam Chairman, that I think
the Government support of this institution might contribute to higher
education in general in the United States, in addition to making a
contribution to Eisenhower College, by establishing certain practices
that might be imitated in other institutions.
As my colleagues have pointed out., this is going to be essentially a
teaching institution. We are not going to prevent faculty members
from doing research, but we feel sometimes research overshadows the
teaching function. Dr. Hickman has listed 23 faculty members who are
dedicated t.o the idea that the first responsibility of college teachers,
at least, ought to be to undergraduate students, and in this case to
undergraduate students in the liberal arts disciplines rather than in
the professional schools.
I would like to speak to the question of the disadvantaged.
Mr. Erlenborn, among the disadvantaged, I include not only those
who, because of race or other ethnic or social circumstances lack
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money-and all that goes with it-but I speak also of those who are
not in the upper, say, 25 percent of the academic elite.
There are many young people in this country, from my personal
knowledge, on many campuses, who today are being eliminated from
our system of higher education because they don't happen to have as
high grades in high school as some of their classmates. The competition
for scholarships is very great, and since there isn't enough money to
go around, much of that scholarship program goes to the upper 2 or 3
percent.
Now, the history of higher education in this country clearly shows
that the small liberal arts colleges have for 100 years or more taken in
n-iany students who have, I would say, been of limited opportunity.
They have been disadvantaged sometimes because of poor high schools,
sometimes because of the lack of culture in the family. They aren't the
dregs of society. But they are in a way disadvantaged.
It has been shown again and again that these youngsters are being
pushed out by constantly rising admission standards, even in publicly
supported institutions. I have a great interest in these youngsters,
because I agree with Senator Morse, who has said on the Senate floor
many times-raised the question on the Senate floor many times: "What
are you going to do for the C-plus student?"
The Nation needs the dedication of these students who, as we know
from their records, turn out to be the leaders in government and
industry, in politics and architecture and the arts. They turn out to be
some of America's most distinguished and accomplished citizens.
Now, I want to clear up once and for all an idea that Eisenhower
College is going to be a catchall for the dropout, or the flunkee. This
is entirely incorrect. We are not interested in students who have no
ambition to learn or who, unfortunately, have little ability to learn.
We are not taking transfer students, as a matter of fact, so that a drop-
out from Amherst or Williams wouldn't be able to get into Eisenhower
College.
We are, however, through a carefully devised selective system, trying
to find youngsters who have high potential and who, with proper
teachmg, would accomplish a great deal, but who, in many institutions,
without this tutorial assistance, would either not be accepted or would
be cut off after the first semester.
We believe there is a great social loss in that group.
To get back to your question, Mr. Erlenborn, the disadvantaged-
now I speak for the disadvantaged economically and socially-many of
the disadvantaged would be in that group. And as we have demon~
strated in New York City, if they get special instructional assistance,
they can jump a couple of academic years in 1 calendar year.
So we would hope in Eisenhower College to be of special assistance to
those people.
I have just two more points to make, Madam Chairman, and then I
am finished.
As Dr. Hickman will tell you, this curriculum is limited to many
fewer subjects than you commonly find provided even in institutions
of comparable size, because we believe that too many specialized and
expensive courses that are offered in these institutions can better be
offered in graduate schools, and the graduate schools agree with that.
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If you connect this up with the fiscal projectiolis, then you will see
why we expect in the matter of a few years the current operating ex-
pense budget will be carried pretty much from the income from
students, because we will not have these very expensive classes with
three or four students in the highly specialized advanced branches of
the `subject, and this will not impair the students' education at all. It
will enhance it.
We will supplement these programs with `interdisciplinary studies,
which invoJve such things as sociology and economics and international
affairs, so that the youngsters will come out of this institution not as
specialists in physics or chemistry or history, or what not, but will come
out as broadly educated citizens capable of taking their place in this
very complex and difficult world in which we live.
Lastly, that leads me to the point which I think Dr. Hickman will
also be glad to elaborate on.
We think every college has a responsibility to introduce the student
to the main national issues and conditions today, and so we have a
special program, not for those who are going into international affairs,
but a special program for all studen'ts, introducing them to the
world at large, the `other cultures, the political problems in the Middle
East and other sections of the world, and so on.
In conclusion, Madam Chairman, I would like to say that I believe
this college deserves `support not only `because of the very distinguished
name which it bears, but also because it is a distinctive institution and
can make a distinctive contribution to higher education at large in the
United States.
I know how tight the Federal budget is, but it seems to me that an
appropriation of $5 million is small in terms of the enormous contribu-
`ti'ons which the general has made to `this Nation, and it is a small
appropriation in consideration of all the money we spend on getting
to the moon and on other activities which I consider have a lesser
prlority than higher education in America.
I believe that this `investment on the part of the Congress would be
a very profitable investment and would return large `dividends in terms
of educational practice in the United States `and in improvement
of the education of our young people.
Thank you very much.
Mrs. GREEN. Thank you, Dr. McGrath.
In your first class, are you `admitting only freshmen?
Dr. MCGRATH. Yes, that is so.
Mrs. GREEN. Then you will have a first-year and then a second-
year~
Dr. MCGRATH. Yes. The principal reason for that was economic, be-
cause if we admitted, let's `say, juniors `and seniors, then we might have
three students in an advanced course in physics, and this would be~
highly expensive. We would have to cover the whole curriculum in 1
year with `only 250 or 300 students, so we decided we would take fresh-
men and next year `take another class and move up until we `had four
full classes.'
Mrs. GREEN. You were making a point that you would not admit
transfer students. \~\Tere you making the point with respect to not ac-
cepting dropouts of low academic ability?
Dr. MCG~mATIi. That is up to the faculty, but I would hope we would
not take transfer students until at least the third year, until we have
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our curriculum established and our relations with other institutions
established.
Mrs. GREEN. This would provide $2½ million -for scholarships. Have
you made plans for scholarships? Do you have any money allocated
for this fall?
Dr. MCGRATH. Yes, $40,000.
Mrs. GREEN. What is the maximum per student?
Dr. MCGRATH. It would vary with need. Conceivably, we would give
him anywhere from $100 to $1,000, and the very greatly disadvantaged,
of course, would have to have nearly all the money they need to get in.
Mr. Coffey says that in extreme cases, combining the loans and the
scholarships, it could go as high as $2,500, which would, of course,
cover the major expenses of the student for a whole year.
Mrs. GREEN. You are talking about the EOG and the NDEA. loans.
I am talking about the $21/2 million trust that you want for scholar-
ships. You have not set a maximum figure on that?
Dr. MCGRATH. Not on the $21~/2 million, no.
Mrs. GREEN. And you haven't set a maximum amount on the scholar-
ship to the student?
Dr. MCGRATH. I think in theory we would give the student the
entire amount he needed to stay in the college, if his case is n'ieritorious.
Mrs. GREEN. But you are saying you would give the total amount
from all sources?
Dr. MCGRATH. Yes, and there would also be a work plan in which,
as you know, in most institutions, 30 or 40 percent of the students
gain some of their tuition, fees, and other expenses by working in the
college year.
We will have opportunities for that, too, in the fall.
I think I can answer your question rather flatfootedly, Madam
`Chairman, that with the intense competition that now exists in col-
leges for students, we can say that we do not have in prospect enough
scholarship assistance to get our fair share of the very able and
underprivileged.
Mrs. GREEN. Your scholarships are based on need. They are a
misnomer. They are economic opportunity grants. Audi that is what
you want the $2½ million for.
Dr. MCGRATH. That is correct. That would be intermingled with the
other $2'/2 million we get.
Mrs. GREEN. Congressman Erlenborn.
Mr. ERLENBORN. On the financial projections you made reference
to the fact that by 1970 you expect to reach the break-even point
on expenses, and show what you might call a profit, although I realize
there is debt service that has not been figured in your chart.
Isn't this unusual?
Dr. MCGRATH. It is.
Mr. ERLENBORN. Isn't it unusual to expect- a college to operate from
student fees? Don't most colleges find it. necessary to have rather
large endowments to be able to offer an educational program?
Dr. MCGRATH. That is true, sir. in fact, until very recent years it
has been assumed that an institution without substantial endowments
couldn't be a really good institution. But this, I think, is changing,
Mr. Erlenborn.
This is only a personal conviction, but with the exception of such
places as Harvard and Yale and Princeton and places with generations
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of alumni and already large endowment funds, it is my conviction that
more and more private institutions are going to have to solicit for
current expenditures, and not for endowment funds, for the reason
that, even if you get a 5-percent return on $1 million, you only have
$50,000, and that is about three salaries.
So I am not suggesting that institutions will not be trying to
get endowment funds and will be unwilling to accept them. Quite the
contrary. I am suggesting that our economy being what it is and
the demands being so great by so many institutions, that I think
they must turn their attention to the annual giving program. And
I am a trustee of three institutions where this, in fact, is what we are
doing. We are trying to get people to sign up for a specified amount
indefinitely.
The idea is that this would be a substitute for the income from
endowment.
I don't believe-I can't speak for the board of trustees of Eisen-
hower College, and I shouldn't, but I ought to say, Mr. Erlenborn,
that I can't believe that Eisenhower College could raise $25- or $30
million in endowments in the next 10 years unless something very
unusual happened, as happened at McAllister College, where they re-
ceived $25 or $30 million in one chunk. I can't believe this is going
to happen in many places.
I believe we have to solicit for our funds year by year.
Mr. ERLENBORN. Do you anticipate that you will be doing this at
Eisenhower College?
Dr. MCGRATH. I surely do.
Mr. ERLENBORN. So that the indications here are that you would
make a go of it on student fees alone. This is not a true picture. You
will need additional help over the long term.
Dr. MCGRATH. There are many other things, you see, Mr. Erlenborn.
The instructional costs usually run between 50 and 60 percent of the
current operating expenses. That is for teachers and library, and so
on. But there are many other expenses in the institution, not capital
expenses, but other kinds of expenses, which will also have to be
covered.
We will need outside funds to do that.
I would hope that through the maintenance of a selective curriculum
and a high student-faculty ratio, I would hope 20 to 1-20 students
for each full-time faculty member-and that the income from student
fees of all kinds would, within 5 years, carry the current operating
budget.
Now, this assumes that we won't have an uncontrolled inflation, or
a severe depression in which we lose students, as we did in 1933. But
assuming a moderately normal economic condition, I would hope, and
I believe, that that will be the case.
Mr. ERLENBORN. Is there any existing institution that can serve as
a model for what you hope will happen, or will you be unique if you are
able to achievethis?
Dr. MCGRATH. Well, there is one that got into a little trouble, and I
hesitate to associate our name with it, out in Iowa.. But this institution
more than covered the current operating expenses out of tuition and
fees. I say we don't want to be compared with this institution because
that institution did take a very substantial percentage of its entering
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class each year from the dropouts of other institutions. You may have
seen a picture in one of the monthly magazines with the boys with
Princeton and Harvard and Yale sweaters now attending this institu-
tion. Those were the fiunkouts.
We don't want that kind of a situation.
Mr. ERLENBORN. I am not familiar with that school, but I would
guess that if the draft law were done away with, they would be broke.
Mr. MCGRATH. Without knowing the facts, I would endorse your
assumption.
I do think, though, Mr. Erlenborn, that the educators have to face up
to the fact that the academic establishment must be operated with
greater efficiency; because, as Seymour Harris, the economist at Har-
vard, showed several years ago, the money is simply not going to be
there to support them under the circumstances under which they have
been operating.
Therefore, I believe, Mr. Erlenborn, that even institutions of very
great reputation and history will have to make better use of their
endowment and current funds than they have in the past if we are
going to get this job.
Mr. ERLENBORN. Thank you.
Mrs. GREEN. I share Mr. Erlenborn's concern. I do not know of a
single ccdlege in the country that does not subsidize education to a very
large extent. I don't know of a single one that is able to operate on only
tuition and fees.
Dr. MCGRATH. Well, the one in Iowa did; but this, Mrs. Green, this
varies all the way from-
Mrs. GREEN. The one in Iowa has lost its accreditation; has it not ~
Dr. MCGRATH. Yes.
Mrs. GREEN. I think that is an unfortunate comparison.
Dr. MCGRATH. I think it is; but the variation in support from income
varies all the way-I looked this up in New York State some time ago.
In one institution in New York State that has a very large en-
dowment, the support of current operating expenses is 14 percent from
the student fees, 86 percent from other sources.
You can find the reciprocal of that, too, where 86 percent of the
operating expenses come from student fees and 14 percent from other
sources.
I would further add that the better institutions academically, in
the main, have the largest support from nonstudent sources.
Mrs. GREEN. You mentioned a ratio of 20 to 1. Does that include
everybody in your institution when you say 20 to 1?
Dr. MCGRATH. That would be an equivalent full-time faculty re-
lated to an equivalent full-time student body.
MThen we were talking to Milton Eisenhower about. that, lie sug-
gested it would be realistic to consider 17 or 18 to 1 as an appropriate
relationship. I think with our limited curriculum aiid larger classes-
you see, these interdisciplinary courses will have several hundred
students in them under one teacher.
\~Te are trying to do what my friend Beardsley Ruml advocated,
just before he died, in a book called "A Memo to a College Trustee,"
to bring the income of the institution from student fees closer in hue
to the expenditures for current operating expenses. And I believe
the longrun destiny of the private institutions will rest on their ability
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to do that. I always exempt such places as Harvard, with a billion
dollars of face value, and such places; but I am talking `about the
cross section of liberal arts colleges.
I think they have to make the income from tuition and fees go a lot
further than they do at the present.
Mrs. GREEN. Except that the statistics show that the number of
students who are attending the public colleges is growing.
Dr. MCGRATH. It is.
Mrs. GREEN. Amazingly so; `and fewer can afford to attend the
private colleges when all of the costs must come from the tuition and
fees.
Dr. MCGRATH. That is correct.
Mrs. GREEN. Let me turn back to the scholarship so I can clarify
the intention. The $2i~4 million would be `provided on the basis of need.
It would not be, in fact, a. real scholarship. Is that correct.?
Dr. MCGRATH. It would not be, let's say, an outright grant of $1,500
or $2,000, or whatever. It. would be an amount related to what the
student needed to continue.
Mrs. GREEN. It would not be based on scholarship?
Dr. MCGRATH. On academic grade, you mean?
Mrs. GREEN. Yes.
Dr. MCGRATH. Yes; it would in pa.rt; because we are not going to
take all comers. We a.re going to have a selective admission process.
Mrs. GREEN. But if yon had a student who did not need the scholar-
ship he would not. get it.
Mr. COFFEY. May I suggest., Madam Chairman, that need would `have
to be present. to have a scholarship grant made. There would be no
outright grant to a. person that didn't have to have the assistance.
Mrs. GREEN. Is Eisenhower College eligible for NDEA loans?
Mr. COFFEY. Yes. I believe in your folder you have a statement on
that.
Mrs. GREEN. You are eligible for loans, economic opportunit.y grants,
work-study, guaranteed student loans?
Mr. COFFEY. There are two. We have a page here-
Mrs. GREEN. If you `are eligible for any, you are eligible for all in
terms of meeting the eligibility standard.
Mr. COFFEY. The amount is $39,800 in NDEA student. loans. Our own
scholarships, $38.000, our employment grants, $11.800.
Mrs. GREEN. WThat I am leading up to is, then, if this is the case, if
they really aren't Eisenhower fellowships, why shouldi Eisenhower
College. be given an addhitional $21/2 million for student assistance when
you have available all four of the on-going Federal programs for this
assistance?
Mr. ROSENIcRANS. I think Dr. Hickman could speak to that..
Mrs. GREEN. Dr. Hickman, for the purposes of the record, is the vice
president for academic affairs.
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STATEMENT OF DR. WARREN HICKMAN, VICE PRESIDENT FOR
ACADEMIC AFFAIRS, EISENHOWER COLLEGE, SENECA FALLS,
N.Y.
Dr. HIcIc~IAN. We do have two types of scholarships, Madam Chair-
man, the type that is granted for need, and also for the student who
has ability. We also have what we call Eisenhower scholars. They are
outstanding students who have been chosen because of their interest
in this kind of curriculum.
Some of these scholars have been honorary scholars, and they have
no need. They were the top students, in some cases, in their classes.
Others of these have received $2,000 in assistance, because they had
the need.
These students receive a special certificate, a letter from the presi-
dent, recognition from their home school. They have been chosen be-
cause they are interested in the world studies program, and the p0-
tential-one was the valedictorian of a class of more than 450 students.
We have several other students of this type who are Eisenhower
scholars.
My point is that we have ordinarily scholarships, student assistance,
and the Eisenhower scholars.
Mrs. GREEN. Then do you see the $2½ million as going to Eisenhower
scholars?
Dr. HICKMAN. We could put our total scholarship assistance into
the disadvantaged and other programs and be able to take a large
amount of this for the Eisenhower scholars, but this is to be deter-
mined on the basis of the first faculty meeting on scholarships.
Mr. STRATTON. Madam Chairman, I think perhaps the record ought
to show that this matter of how the money is going to be handled has
not been discussed in any detail. The whole proposal, as you know,
has been the one that we have been struggling to get son'ie considera~-
tion of, and some approval. And I think it would be unfortunate if
the impression were given that some firm decision has been made,
either by the trustees or by the administration as to how every nickel
of this money was going to be spent.
I think certainly the college would be happy to be guided by the
committee and by the Congress, in its own wisdom as to how this money
ought to be spent in line with the purposes of the grant and the honor
to President Eisenhower.
Certainly we didn't assume that the money was going to be coming
tomorrow or the day after, so that there had to be a firm policy
decision made, and I think the remarks that have been made in answer
to your question on this point ought to be clearly indicated as being
speculative rather than firm.
Secondly, I think it also ought to be recalled that the reason for
putting some of this money into scholarship programs is precisely
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because of the question that you have been raising, as to how is a
college going to survive on student fees.
Well, you are going to find qualified students who might not other-
wise come to college if there weren't scholarship funds available, so
the money that is being made available as scholarship funds are ulti-
mately going to end up, a large part of them, in the incoming income
of the college itself, and will therefore help to keep the college going.
But I think that it would be unfortunate to suggest that we have
arrived at any firm policy decision as to how this money is going to
be spent.. It was my understanding, and I don't pretend to be an
academician, that almost all colleges today award scholarships entirely
on the basis of need.
I was a member of the Boa.rd of Trustees of the University of
Rochester, which along with Harvard and Yale is one of the top in
terms of endowment. And I know that there the need was virtually
the only consideration for awarding scholarships. So I don't think
this is any unusual approach.
But certainly the college has not made any determination, and I
am sure that we would be happy to be gui.ded .by your recommendations
and those of the committee before the legislation is finally enacted and
the appropriation is made.
Mrs. GREEN. Thank you, Congressman Stratton.
The reason for the question, of course, is, I think, pretty obvious.
It is my conviction that the Federal assistance programs make it
possible for almost any student who really wants t.o go to college to go
to college, regardless of the status of the family pocketbook. Therefore,
I would have reservations about another Federal program based on
need.
Mr. STRATrON. Could I just in response to that, Madam Chair-
man-I am not sure I should be discussing it further, but as one who is
the parent of one child in college and another going, that my faith in
this statement, which I have frequently reiterated in my own con-
stit.uency ha.s been a little bit shaken as I face the problems of financing
a college education.
I frankly don't think that we have yet reached the point where we
can say tha.t every child who wants to go to college and can handle it
academically has available the funds that are needed to make that edu-
cation possible.
Mrs. GREEN. I am not suggesting that every student can go to the
prestigious schools. I am suggesting .that every student could go to a
postsecondary school under the present Federal assistance programs.
I think this is true.
Do you have anything fur.ther
Dr. MCGRATH. No.
Mrs. GREEN. Thank you very much, Dr. McGrath.
Dr. Hickman, do you have anything to acTcl?
Mr. STRATTON. Could I suggest that Dr. McCann be permitted to
testify first?
Mrs. GREEN. Yes. Dr. McCann, we have a full committee meeting. We
are going to have to conclude this right away, be.c.ause I made a.n agree-
ment that we would meet this morning and then go to the full commit-
t.ee meeting.
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STATEMENT OF DR. KEVIN MCCANN, TRUSTEE, EISENHOWER
COLLEGE, SENECA FALLS, N.Y.
Dr. McCANN. I will be very brief. Mine is only a personal witness to
Dwight Eisenhower's interest in the college and his concern for it.
I can speak with a bit of authority there, because I have been associated
with him since he was Chief of Staff.
I share an office with him now in Gettysburg. As a man, he has no
use for the run of monuments. I remember one day over 20 years ago,
driving over from the Pentagon to the Hill for a committee hearing,
and passing the old District Building and the statue of Mayor Shep-
herd, and he turned to me in the car and said: "I hope nobody ever
spends a dime for a statue for me, that will only clutter up space and
be a roosting place for pigeons."
There are elementary schools and high schools named for him. Those
have all been built and are maintained out of tax money, local, and
with the usual Federal assistance.
There are other monuments: the Eisenhower home in Abilene, the
Eisenhower Center, the Eisenhower Library, a hospital in California.
Those have been entirely paid for out of private money. And in this
present instance, the Government of the United States will be at
no cost in erecting a~ monument at his grave, because Mrs. Eisen-
hower and he will be buried in the chapel at the Eisenhower Center
in Abilene. Their first-born son is already buried there.
There will be another monument to him. He himself and his wife
are giving to the Government, to the National Park Service, their farm-
stead in Gettysburg, 190 acres. It is the assembly area for Pickett's
troops and Longstreet's assault.
But in all the enterprises associated with him that have been, or
that are rooted in the private sector, he has shown far more interest
and has been far more active in this particular enterprise, Eisenhower
College, than any other I have known of in the ~5 years I have been
with him.
He has not only written innumerable letters and discussed the col-
lege with innumerable people, he has given of his own substance, his
paintings and things of that sort. No other institution has achieved
as high a place in his attention and esteem as Eisenhower College,
mainly because of the spirit of the place. He was fascinated when a few
men from a small community came to him believing that they could
build a college.
He was very impressed when he discussed Dr. McGrath's plan for
the college.
Now, with a former President of the United States actively inter-
ested in a college, most people will say: "Well, there is no trouble
at all in money affairs." Unfortunately, Dwight Eisenhower is prob-
ably the poorest hand in the world in the raising of money. He just
doesn't know how to do it, and it is extremely difficult in any case for
him to ask money for something honoring himself.
However, I was asked, and lie urged me to accept the assignment
as kick-off speaker at the first fund-raising dinner in Seneca Falls.
It was one of my very, very few successes as a fund-raiser. In a com-
munity of 7,000, almost $1 million was raised. It is that sort of spirit
about the college that most impresses Dwight Eisenhower.
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When Congressman Stratton over a year ago brought up with me
this idea of making the Eisenhower College a national monument, an
expression of the American people's respect and affection for the man
through the Congress of the United States, I was enthusiastic about it.
I did point out to him that I could not have anything to do with it
because of my association with General Eisenhower. I just felt that
it would be improper for me to push anything of this sort.
Since then, I have come to realize in some discussions with General
Eisenhower that this is the time to move, while he is still alive. I was
with him yesterday for 15 minutes. The man is intellectually brilliant.
He gets sharper by the day. Physically, there is no question about it.
His years are-the sands are running out..
I came here today because I hope that the impact of this resolu-
tion, should it be passed by the Congress, will be the most. touching
thing that has happened to him since he left the White House, and
the most invigorating. I think it will be far better for him than any-
thing the doctors can do.
There my testimony ends.
Mrs. GREEN. Thank you very much. That is very eloquent, I might
say.
I have no questions.
Mr. ERLENBORN. I have no questions.
Mrs. GREEN. Mr. Hickman, do you have anything you would like
to add?
Dr. HICKMAN. Madam Chairman, I will try to do as Dr. McGrath
did, and scoot around the edges of what the other people have spoken
about.
We have tried to develop a college with a curriculum which special-
izes in breadth rather than specialization. WTe have found that we
could take certain elements that were important in various other
institutions, some that were unique, had not been tried in other institu-
tions, and bring them together in a complex which we think develops
a strong new liberal-arts package, world oriented, and with a faculty,
18 out of the first 23 having traveled and lived abroad, who are
interested in a world approach.
lYe have a divisional breakdown, not departments. lYe have done
this' to try to prevent the empire building referred to by Dr. McGrath.
The faculty are in part on hand at present. lYe have a good many
faculty who have either been departmental chairmen or have had
other types of serniadministrative positions and know how to develop
curriculum. They are working on that at this point on the campus.
Because the curriculum is unique, it is necessary for us to develop
new course plans.
The courses have been identified. The descriptions have been written.
They are now developing the actual class plans.
Special facilities such as multimedia lecture theaters have been
provided. We intend to use the development of basic concepts. We
are trying to develop the participation by the student.
In the world studies program, which involves philosophy, litera-
ture and so on, we use a disciplinary expert~ in each of these areas. lYe
have large lectures. We break the students then into small 15-man
seminar sections. We do this in order that the studlent may participate
more than he usually does at the freshman or sophomore level.
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Having the large lecture supplement what is done by the textbook, we
have been able to keep the faculty low. Instead of `the standard text-
books, we are going into the paperbacks. We are `trying to get into
original sources, more independent study.
The January program emphasizes depth to make a balance with
the breadth that we have during `the regular part of the year.
Our library books have already been ordered for the first year. The
faculty have been participating in this for 6 months.
We have two types of scholarships. The Eisenhower scholars are
being brought in-
Mrs. GREEN. May I interrupt here before Dr. McCann leaves?
There is one other question.
Has `the former President indicated that he would leave his papers
to Eisenhower College?
Dr. MCCANN. His papers must go to the Eisenhower Library, be-
cause now `the National Archives has taken over `the administration and
management of it.
However, a good bit of Eisenhower memorabilia is at Eisenhower
College, and more will go `there when the estate is dispersed.
Mrs. GREEN. But none of his papers will go to the college? So it
won't be a source of research?
Dr. MCCANN. The archival program in all the presidential libraries
plan that all papers will be microfilmed in manifold print, `and will be
available `to all colleges in the country. It is much better than depositing
the papers in one place and insisting that everybody go `there.
All the presidential papers of the Eisenhower, Truman, Roosevelt
administration will be available to the colleges in `the country
eventually.
Mrs. GREEN. Thank you.
Dr. HICKMAN. We also have students at `the other extremes, from
disadvantaged backgrounds, for whom we are planning special
tutorial work and even summer sessions.
We have students from 25 States and five countries from rural
backgrounds and urban backgrounds. We have not chosen students
primarily on the basis of any one type of test. We have chosen students
on the basis of the recommendations of their schools, on various things
we could find out about `their background that indicated there was
motivation, that this student had the potential for becoming some
type of leader in the American community.
Therefore, the curriculum would give the student a world approach
to every one of the disciplines, and because the disciplines, as I said
earlier, are not developed under departments but under divisions, we
do not expect the empire building. Also, we do not expect to have the
overlap or the overspecialization which comes in trying to protect one
phase of a discipline within a particular department.
This, in terms of operation, naturally, can be more economical, but,
in terms of education, we also think it is sound education.
I would point out that, with the books that have been ordered, we
will, for the first year, have the library facilities necessary for our
January program. We will have space available for all the students
we need in our present plant.
it is during our third year that we begin to move into the need for
further plants.
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The students who are coming to us are seeing a catalog that was
prepared last February because the faculty was all on board. The
new catalog will carry the complete course description and the titles
for all the courses in each of the disciplines.
Earlier, I believe, Mr. Hathaway asked about that catalog.
So courses have been identified. There is a full curriculum in
philosophy, literature, history, and so on.
Thank you.
Mrs. GREEN. Do you have any questions?
Mr. ERLENBORN. No, I haven't.
Mrs. GREEN. Unless Mr. Mayer has something that has not been
covered-
Mr. MAYER. No, I haven't, Madam Chairman.
Mrs. GREEN. I thank Congressman Stratton and you other gentle-
men for your help.
The subcommittee is adjourned.
(Whereupon, at 11: 15 a.m., the subcommittee recessed, to recon-
vene at the call of the Chair.)
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