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8/21/1947 - Stanford University; Student Attitudes by Albert Ravenholt

Berkeley California Augus Mr Walter S Rogers Instiue Current Vorld Affairs Fifth Avenue New York N Y Dear Mr Rogerss Somea I Dr Philip Buck professor political science Sanford University In course conversation asked noticed shift emphasis attitudes sudents After considering moment I teaching years never students eagerly inelligently I believe sincerely intereste world affairs Dr Buck remark keynotes impression gained alking students professors Sanford University California Berkeley Of schools Stanford afforded better opportunity analysis trends suden thinking The studen small enough certain homogeneity numbered approximately during academic compar University California Berkeley Interest world affairs among Sanford sudents beyond discussion stage Probably dramatic project launched students called International Survey Committee which composed repreeenative various studen organizations On their initiatlie thisgroup ofsuden leaders lastwiner decidediwouldeafinehing Stanford suden repre_senaives universities EUrope Several faculty members consuled discouraged The proposition finally studen received approval authorizationo ASSU funds defray expenses The student observers subsequently selected Join student faculty board eight weeks allotted visit English European universities They articles schools visited publication Stanford Daily expected deliver series reports findings suden Another active student group known Stanford International Relief Organization Since organized themselves March menbers collected clothing individuals seventeen countries They adopted University Naples scheme stock library lalian students The above spontaneous efforts illusraions Sanford sudents concern affairs abroad Veterans counselors others I talked guessed several reasons Man students families therefore afford participate campus erpriseS Students selected indication degree selec ivity SO0 qualified women applcants accepted freshmen Is The freedom fincil which before tended produce country mosphere seems keener scholastic competiti fostered veterans produced students Te University traditional international orientation heightened experiences ofboSh faculty students And campus located coast close major metropolitan One other factor favored Stanford University California Berkeley At campuses meeling professors students rised middle They Bay during their years service after brought their fnilies settle The profited their ideas energy InnionalaffairstheAVC Stanforddeservesmention asabarometer sudent interest The pying membership organizs totalled about vetern enrollment University A supporter group esimted tnirty forty members attended meeting these fifteen regulars comes geing anythin Professors I questioned activity AVC thought membership figure misleading indic influence among students To illustrate point professor described forum AVC staged Palo Alto autumn They succeeded getting Republican Democratic candidates Congress platform Students including several hundred veterans arrived meeting voting record candidate their quesi ready After meeting candidates professor roughest going experienced during campaign Saisics office veterans coordinator Sanford indicated solders approximately vocational goals those other universities visited Enrollmen education social sciences growin about seventeen percent respectively majoring fields Te figures showed number veterans entering education decreasin until months sharp upswing several boosted teacher salaries Veterans establish themselves residents California entitled special educational benefit addition provisions GI Those eligible assistance either tuition subsistence allowance month No state assistance dragon concurrently benefits GI Chief recipien students extensive courses medicine veterans serve enough entitled years schooling Stanford Universily Graduate School Business survey veterans faring under provisions GI According findings typical single veteran spent month personal living Eihty percent difference between government needed their savings Fifteen percent either worked helped their families access housing projec apartments S7 S0 three apartment including facilities average married veteran equal received Veterans Administration The survey found sixty three percent worked veteran figures produced survey revised upward correspond climb prices They quietly bitter veterans other schools about inflation which wiping their savings Inflation elfcoted University veteranS Faculty salaries formerly highest Vest Coast below Washington Califcrnia Budgets projects limited spite handi inter departmental program instruction interna tional relations first offered graduate degrees twenty candidates MAA enrolled Doctorates still taken specific department From interniews With students Dr Philip Buck Chairman committee directing program judged students hoping degree would qualify careers U S government agency other State Depent The courses ruction Far Eastern Diplomacy Japanes History given Payson J Treat Yamato Ichihashi largely supplanted Pacific Asiatic Russian Program Four factors appear contributed change I retirement Trea Ichihashi strength faculty opinion favor appropriate language sress primary sources against called diplomatic approach English texts almost exclusively toward inter departmentai current unpopularity Japan studies among stanford Pacific Asiai andPssian major undergraduate program hough graduate planned A Rockefeller grant years makes possible bring native informants experts Admiisra ively program placed Deanof Humaniies Director Of Departmen Of Asiatic Slavic Studies Associate DArector program Anthony Sokol Ass0cla Director mentione students enrolled preparation foreign service missionary business teach Want higher degrees In general China courses highes enrollment In language sixty students started Rssian wenty Chinese Japanese Malay Of sixty beganRssian sixty percent stayed With expected continue advanced courses This summer courses intensive Russian offered stony sudents applied could taken The intensive summer coursesSrpartoheplan Sanfordgroupo combine tradit ionaleaching mehods erphasizing research intensive instruction language single inegraed program A Berkeley other Far Eastern academic curses ianlwe courses cnpletely separated During California carried heavy schedule intensive language ruction general indoctrination courses I agreed course would continue demand Oriental Languages Department preferred burdened since charge Oriental Languages Department Within Uniyerslty their Eropean tradiion train shholarly academicians historians As result Far Eastern Rssian Languages School separate enity under University Extension designed equip sudens shortest possible speaking knowledge modern colloquial language provide general introduction Another stated Extension experiment developing teaching materials methods The classes seven eight students Chinese Jpanese Korean Russian listed regular schedule Each summer speCial phase oered smmer Siamese Classes twenty hours Wo hours given lectures smouns general eographcai ethnologica historical cultural Survey uesioning native informan prese linguistic analysis which sudens rained languages their disposal increase their vocabulary fourteen hours devoted exclusively languaSe drill 6onversation Of studentsin first special summer course Siamese State Department foreign service officer another interested purely linguistics three former ASTP students language background intend Siam A criticism heard eprea extension technique unless student opportunity intensively acquired knowledge immediately because solid foundation The charge against Far Eastern courses University Berkeley leveled scholrly training language research which excellent scope material covered A member faculty phrased Budents studying Chinese ConfUcianism without learning extent applies today studying Chines institutions fifty years neglecting their presen manifestations Stanford Berkeley provide majors spanic American Studies Berkeley offers group majors China France French Colonies Germny Central Europe Japan RusSian Eastern Europe The Hispnic America program Berkeley enjoys considerable reputation populr regioaS students seventy seven upper division tudents enrolled His America compared France Fr Colonies Jpan Germany Central Europe Russia Eastern Europe China A unique facility Stanford Hoover Institute Library RavolutionandPeace Firsorganizedasalibraryihemph sinwardocume rojec expanded until objective acBuire materiss covering social history twentieth century accen ccial areas According Harold H Fisher Chairman Institute Library complete sections ussia Germany Spain since Ialy Poland A splendid collection Chinese Jpnese materials acquired within including complete North China Daily News theofficialJpanserecordsofgovernmenin2ormosa isnoye shelvedd ready Vile India recent concern Fisher particular menion Phillips Talbot doing Shem score The Institute Library provide facilities funds scholmrs pursue sudies Recipients called research grants sufficient languge background present research projects material Hoover Library especially appropriate Frequent seminars Institute stimulate inter change ideas researh scholars Gr duates advanced students Sanford atend permission their departmenfs The afternoon Dr ichael Earpovich discussion problems histoans Russia overcome As special projects Institute conducting Administrtion School officers govern Fcific islands The recen ndertaking organization Crnegie Foundtion survey wherefores ratve ineffectiveness documentary films media international educational exchang In conclusion impressions gained schools visited summer hould recorded One general confusion methods means selecting students abroad Nest administrators found calibre students arriving example Trke China inferior believe uIver those countries could provide these students often lacking rking knowledge English Srnscripts received barely passing marks universitieS With Sae Department unlversiy exchange program apparently scuttled administrators screen overseas Two study ernaona relation thetendency appeaxstobe concentrate eaching physical frework within which foreign overn operate Very seldom classes given wherein suden gains understanding actual repositories either social political power I Englishman oundersa actions United States governent without ppreciaing Senator Kenneth McKellar occupies Congress Alber Ravenholt