SR_DPI_DNE_Special_Subject_File_B1F6_Committee_Negro_Education_State_Board_Education_031

ample wisdom and sound judgement to devise a wise and workable plan for carrying out the recommendations of this committee; and that actualy work on it may begin as soon as possible after the war closes.
2. The second item in the studies directed by the State Board of Education committee on Negro Education which will need action by the Legislature is that of adequate appropriations for the five Negro colleges. Salaries of teachers and other personnel in these colleges have not been equalized with those in other colleges, as has been true of salaries of public school teachers. It is very desirable that the Legislature of 1945 provide appropriations sufficient to bring the salaries of college instructors in the five Negro colleges up to state standards. Also that the appropriations be made large enough to enable the trustees and Presidents of those institutions to employ a sufficient number of instructors to keep the teacher-student load down to state levels. Dificiencies in those three particulars viz: insufficient funds to pay salares to hold the best teaching talent, to employ a large enough number of teachers to keep the teacher-student load down to state levels, and too monger support for tho libraries force the three teachers colleges to accept for the present n B rating from the Southern Association for those institutions which reflects upon the record and standing of the state in other respects.
3. The third item in the studies made in which there is need for funds is that of supervision. This may be regarded as one of the intangibles in a state program of instruction. Something-the exact value of which may not immediately be seen by the physical eye. Industry seems to know what adequate to supervision means to business and supervisors, by one name or another, are employed to be sure labor in the great plants produce the goods desired, of the kind, the quality and in the quantities needed to guarantee dividends. It is not as easy to point out dividends in trained boys and girls, a large part of whose training may be due to the kind end