Management of Universities

The observation that our universities have become big business will not include, for present purposes, their athletic departments, whose management appears to be conditioned by successful business graduates on glory bent. Turning to customer-students, the 1950 issue of The World Almanac shows that one university has approximately 50,000 students and 38 others have more than 10,000 each. It is becoming more or less general for the alumni and many of topmanagement in our universities to feel apologetic if the student body numbers fewer than 5,000. That the rapidity of student growth has an adverse effect on the quality of university management is a truism developed from all types of institutions.