Statement by Commissioner of Education Earl James McGrath, Community Colleges
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OCR Page 1 of 5COMMUNITY 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.
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