NAEB Newsletter (Mar 1958)

legitimate and must be maintained. But the absurd precautions which some broadcasters are willing to take in order to avoid offending anyone seem unjusti¬ fied, and are certainly alien to the interests of the vast majority of listeners.” RECORD ENROLLMENT CONTINUES College enrollments have set a new record this year for the sixth consecutive year and will climb sub¬ stantially with the opening of the second semester, according to the U. S. Office of Education. The enrollment of 3,060,000 students in 1,890 colleges and universities early last fall represents a 4.1 per cent increase over the 2,947,000 who enrolled in the fall of 1956, the office reported. Last fall’s enrollment was 45 per cent above fall enrollment in 1951, the year of lowest enrollment since World War II, and 25 per cent above 1949, the peak year for enrollments in the immediate post-war years. U. S. Commissioner of Education Lawrence G. Derthick said that during the remainder of the school year, college and university enrollments are expected to climb to an all-time high of approximately 3,460,000. Due to an unprecedented increase in the number of births during the mid-1940s the. number of college- age persons in the population will start to climb steeply in the early 1960s, Dr. Derthick pointed out. In the next decade, the number of young people seek¬ ing enrollment in college is expected to double. NEWS OF MEMBERS GENERAL y More than 70 business and industrial firms in the Chicago area desire television training programs for their employees, according to a recent survey by WTTW, Chicago. Highest on the preference list are programs deal¬ ing with communication skills and interpersonal re¬ lationships, rather than with specific manual or academic skills. Forty-five of the 73 institutions that responded to a questionnaire circulated by the station listed human relations as number one preference. Other preferences high on the list are business letter writing, creative thinking, effective speech, supervisor development, conference leadership and fundamental economics. ► Raymond Hurlbert, general manager of the Ala¬ bama Educational Television Commission has an¬ nounced that the growing number of schools in the state using educational TV courses has brought an increased number of requests for specialized training by TV. Effective since January 27, Alabama’s ETV net¬ work signs on at 9:30 a.m., 15 minutes earlier than previously. Its sign-off time at 10 p.m. remained un¬ changed. The additional morning programming ex¬ tends the networks daily air time longer than that of ETV stations throughout the country with the ex¬ ception of Chicago, Pittsburgh and Miami. ^ Two engineers from the state-owned radio and TV service in Yugoslavia are currently receiving special technical instruction at station WHYY-TV, Philadel¬ phia’s educational UHF channel. The foreign visitors are Slavko Pernus and Anton Jese, chief engineer and maintenance supervisor, re¬ spectively, of Radio-Televizija Ljubljana, Yugoslavia. The men are members of a group of eight engineers selected by the Yugoslavian broadcasting agency for three months of special training in the United States in advance of the start of TV in Yugoslavia, later this year. The training program is part of an equipment purchase arrangement made by the Yugoslav broad¬ casters with the Radio Corporation of America. Fol¬ lowing an indoctrination period in Camden, N. J. the visiting engineers were reassigned to specially selec¬ ted TV stations in this country for further training. PROGRAMS ^ That educational TV can be as beneficial to participants as to home viewers is the basic assump¬ tion underlying “Fields Afar,” a program series pre¬ sented weekly over Michigan State University’s television station WKAR-TV at East Lansing. The series was inaugurated a year ago to provide “an avenue of expression” for colleges within the state. Each Friday throughout the school year, the station devotes 30 minutes to a different institution during which the latter presents talents of its stu¬ dents and faculty. William H. Tomlinson, producer-coordinator of “Fields Afar,” holds that cooperation is the key to the program’s success. The fact that the University and the visiting schools are sharing in the work re¬ quired for putting on a half-hour program is con¬ sidered by Tomlinson as “probably the most impor¬ tant feature of this unique interschool relationship.” ^ Each Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 2 p.m., WILL, the University of Illinois’ educational station, MARCH, 1958 7