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already benefited from an exchange of visits between a member of his staff and members of the administrative staff of the University of California, and he believed that a visit by trustees would have great value for the committee.

"Shortly after our return from California, a meeting of the special committee, with Mr. Yarborough present, was called to hear a report of the California delegation. This meeting was held in Chapel Hill on October 14, and I shall report to you now as I did to the committee then, only here in considerably less detail. I hope that members of the California subcommittee or of the special committee will elaborate upon or amend what I say as they think appropriate.

"I cannot refrain from saying that the committee of trustees were accorded every courtesy and every favor that would serve the accomplishment of our aim, which was to learn all that we could about a state system of post-high school education that embraces more than seventy community junior colleges, seventeen four-year state colleges, and a university which comprises nine campuses with a total enrollment of over 50,000 students in the university alone, and more than 200,000 in all public institutions of higher education.

"To describe this vast system briefly is not easy; but it is essential to point out that there are three distinct segments of post-high school public education: first, the two-year community colleges offering academic courses for credit transferrable to state colleges or the University as well as technical and vocational education, and adult education. There are approximately seventy of these open to any graduate of a California high school, tuition-free. These colleges are under the administrative supervision of the State Board of Education. And each has its separate district Board of Trustees.

"The second segment are the state colleges. These are four-year liberal arts colleges, as I have indicated, seventeen in all. They are governed by one common board of trustees which board has an executive officer with the title of president. The chief administrative officer of each of the colleges also has the title of president.

"The third segment is the University with seven existing campuses and two entirely new campuses now in the beginning stages of construction. The University at Berkeley is the oldest of the institutions within the University. The offices of central administration of the University, that

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