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COMMUNITY COLLEGES Since the beginning of the Korean incident, the relationships between our needs in military training and our needs in civilian education have emerged as a major problem of national concern. As yet the total dimensions of the problem cannot be seen. Under the urgent necessity to build adequate production and military strength for defense, we have examined in haste some aspects of the educational problems of the emergency. These include such matters as universal military training and service, future labor force needs and employment prospects, use of educational facilities and personnel for defense purposes, essential research, production training, and civil defense. The American Association of Junior Colleges is to be applauded for its early recognition of the national problem of the relationships between our educational system and military defense. The serious thought which junior college leaders have given to this matter and their strenuous efforts to promote a better understanding of its significance have led to careful consideration of the role of the junior college in its ultimate solution. Some junior colleges are already involved directly in military projects. In June, 1951, for example, the Navy established an experi- mental project in a public junior college in connection with the training of enlisted men in certain technical fields. This fall a By Earl James McGrath, U.S. Commissioner of Education, Federal Security Agency, Washington, D.C., published in Junior College Journal, Vol. XXII, No. 6, February 1952, pp. 305-306.