The various papers referred to by Dr. Hollis in his statement, including the prepared statement in full, will be included in the record at this point.

(The material referred to follows:)

REPORT OF STATUS OF VETERANS' EDUCATIONAL BUILDING FACILITIES VEFP-Form 2

Budget Bureau No. 51-4703
Expires June 30, 1947

FEDERAL SECURITY AGENCY

U. S. OFFICE OF EDUCATION
WASHINGTON 25, D. C.

IMPORTANT: Please furnish all data requested IMPORTANT: Read carefully accompanying "Notes" VETERANS EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES PROGRAM

REPORT ON STATUS OF VETERANS EDUCATIONAL BUILDING FACILITIES

Report of

Institution

Check one: Publicly controlled

Location of Institution or Center

Privately controlled.

I. ENROLLMENTS 1 (See note at bottom of page)

Furnish actual enrollment figures for Autumn 1946-47, also Spring 1946-47 if available. Estimate others. In making estimates, consider the various

factors that affect your long-time planning.

In consideration of long-time institutional planning policies, estimate the enrollment (all students) you will have in the academic years 1954-55

1959-60

(Autumn enrollments).

II. GENERAL STATEMENT

Report submitted by
Date

Authorized representative.

III. BUILDING FACILITIES

Furnish information in the table below on existing building facilities and additional building facilities needed for adequate instruction of the number of students expected before 1950, including buildings to be furnished by the Federal Works Agency and the Federal Public Housing Authority.

1 Enrollment is defined in the usual terms which exclude correspondence students and other off-campus students not utilizing plant facilities. Enrollments reported should include only those of college grade.

NOTES ON THE PREPARATION OF YOUR REPORT (VEFP-FORM 2)

I. ENROLLMENT STATISTICS

It is assumed that you will have no difficulty in furnishing the actual enrollment figures requested. Enrollment is defined in the usual terms which exclude correspondence students and other off campus students not utilizing plant facilities. Enrollments reported should include only those of college grade.

We are aware of the difficulty in making enrollment forecasts, especially those looking ahead as far as 1955 and 1960, yet such forecasting is necessary in longrange planning for permanent building facilities. The forecasts will help us to interpret your estimate of needs.

II. GENERAL STATEMENT

Although the space for general statement is located on the first page of the form, your comments should apply to the report as a whole. Use this space and the back of page 1, and the other page of the form, if necessary, to elaborate, clarify, or qualify the information reported formally, where the form is not adequate to present a situation accurately, and for any other comments that you may desire to make.

If you are the authorized representative of a system of several institutions, or of an institution of more than one center, submit a separate report for each institution or center, corresponding with the justifications of need previously submitted.

III. BUILDING FACILITIES

The figures in column 1 should include permanent buildings and temporary building facilities that you are now using, provided there is reasonable expectancy that these, or equivalent temporary facilities, will be available for the duration of your emergency needs. Whether the institution has title to such buildings is immaterial. For example, you may be using off campus housing and other facilities belonging to the Army or Navy. These should be included.

A report on temporary facilities is requested, since it is realized that such facilities are now in use and may be appropriately included in your estimates of

future needs because of their urgency and the relatively long time required to obtain permanent buildings.

Note that in all columns we are asking for approximate figures. It will be satisfactory for you to interpret "approximate" in such a way as to make it practicable for you to furnish the data.

In columns 2 and 3 (page 2), include only the facilities that you definitely will furnish and finance with resources available to the institution, and facilities that you are assured will be furnished you by FWA and FPHA.

In columns 4 and 5, include facilities that in keeping with your standards are demanded for adequate educational services for your expected enrollments, and which you are unable to furnish from your own resources.

Approximate floor space reported should be based on over-all dimensions, including corridors and other auxiliary space.

BRIEF OF ERNEST V. HOLLIS, CHIEF, VETERANS EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES PROGRAM, UNITED STATES OFFICE OF EDUCATION

This statement is submitted in response to your invitation to appear before the Subcommittee on Education of the Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare to testify on Senate bill 971.

The Servicemen's Readjustment Act providing educational benefits for veterans is bringing about a great increase in enrollment in our colleges which will amount to practically 50 percent more than the current enrollment by 1950, and current enrollment is 55 percent above the prewar peak. A survey of present plant capacity and future needs to meet this increased enrollment shows that the amount of the floor space must be increased about in proportion to the increase in enrollment. Briefly, this means that all our colleges together will require about 186,000,000 additional square feet of space. A number of colleges which had secured money for the construction of additional buildings have found it insufficient for their minimum needs because of the increase in cost of construction. If grants in aid are made, these appropriations and no doubt additional ones will be used to meet the need due to the increased veteran enrollment.

It was this situation that prompted the Seventy-ninth Congress to enact legislation which authorized the United States Office of Education, the Federal Works Agency, and the Federal Public Housing Authority to expend $7,000,000 in dismantling, removing, and reerecting war surplus temporary buildings on college campuses to help provide veterans a place to eat, sleep, and study. Commissioner George H. Field, Bureau of Community Facilities, Federal Works Agency, has given you a report on the other than residential housing portion of this program. This temporary housing has met a crucial need but it is of course a stopgap measure that is currently taking care of no more than 10 percent of the building space colleges must have if they are to provide for the students who have been or expect to be admitted to programs of instruction.

The two primary bases for determining the character and amount of buildings a college needs are: First, the number of students to be admitted to each major program of study, and second, the nature of the programs to be offered. Obviously, for example, it would not require the same amount or cost for space per student in a junior college as in an engineering or medical school. It will not be possible in this testimony for me to present evidence on the need for plant expansion as it is determined by the nature and quality of programs to be offered. My testimony will be limited to needs for building space as determined by the total number of students now in attendance or for whom the colleges need to have facilities by or before 1950.

AN ANALYSIS OF ACTUAL AND ESTIMATED ENROLLMENT

Tables 1, 2, and 3 of this statement present a comprehensive picture of the actual and estimated enrollment as made by the officials in 1,167 of approximately 1,700 colleges and universities in the United States and its territories. In addition to national totals, these tables show the enrollment situation State by State. The 1,167 responding institutions (late returns will be added before the study is completed) represent 69 percent of all institutions in the country and these institutions enrolled approximately 94 percent of all students attending college in the spring of 1947. Of the 1,700 colleges listed in the United States Office of Education Directory, 563 are publicly controlled and tax supported and 1,137

are privately controlled and supported. Fifty-two percent of all students enrolled in institutions of higher learning are in publicly controlled colleges and universities. The proportion of veterans in student bodies is slightly higher in tax-supported colleges than in privately supported colleges.

Through the cooperation of the Bureau of Community Facilities, Federal Works Agency, and with the approval of the Budget Bureau, the Veterans Educational Facilities Unit of the United States Office of Education has been able to secure from college officials a statement of current enrollment related to physical facilities and a periodic estimate of enrollment related to proposed plant expansion up through the school year 1959-60. The comments and summary tabulations that follow are based on eight tables selected from a more comprehensive list of tables that record the total study.

Summary A shows the actual and estimated enrollment of all students through 1959-60 and of veteran students through the fall of 1949-50.

The relationship between estimated enrollments for each period is perhaps best seen by taking the actual enrollments for the spring semester of the school year 1946-47 as the base for comparing enrollments. By calculations not here reproduced, the total enrollment for the fall of 1946 is 99.9 percent of the enrollment in the spring of 1947. This means that the colleges simply had almost no facilities which would permit the enrollment of additional students during the second half of the school year 1946-47. However, the veteran enrollment was up 3 percent in the spring semester. This was made possible by a corresponding reduction in the nonveteran enrollment at the beginning of the spring term in 1947.

Summary A also shows that the estimated total college enrollment for the fall of 1947 will be 16 percent above that in the spring of 1947, and that the estimated enrollment for the fall of 1949 will be 22.5 percent above current enrollments. The enrollment of veterans in the fall of 1947 is also expected to be approximately 16 percent more than the present enrollment, but is expected to rise less rapidly than the nonveteran enrollment between the fall of 1947 and the fall of 1949. The significant point is that college and university officials believe that when we enter the school year 1949–50, both total enrollment and the enrollment of veterans will still be increasing.

In reading the figures in Summary A, it will be noted that the total estimated enrollment for 1700 or more colleges is only approximately 6 percent more than the totals reported by 1,167 institutions. This conservative estimate has been made because most of the institutions that have failed to respond are known to enroll relatively small student bodies. Moreover, the over-all estimate of veteran enrollments has been increased by only 3 percent because it is known that the nonresponding institutions enroll a smaller proportion of the total number of veterans than of students in general. In order that the estimates in Summary A may not be confused with estimates based on the total number of students enrolled in any one period or school year, the reader must hold in mind that the Summary A figures will be the peak enrollment of the period indicated. This plan of recording enrollment estimates seemed more appropriate because physical facilities are required only for the maximum enrollment which is actually present on any given day. After taking all of these precautions, it will be noted that from a present peak enrollment of 2,103,000 it is estimated that on some given