Abstract

W HAT has been the effect on junior colleges of the sudden curtailment of the Army Specialized Training Program? Very little effect, indeed, for the simple reason that relatively few junior colleges had such units. Only about a dozen junior colleges in a halfdozen states scattered from California to Georgia, from Idaho to Texas, have had either Army or Navy basic programs or the related STAR units. Half of these dozen were in California. It is obvious, therefore, that the suddenly announced plans for cancellation or severe restriction of these programs did not cause such consternation among the six hundred junior colleges in all parts of the country as it caused in the many senior institutions where these programs have been such a vital factor. Because of their size, and the housing requirements, less than 4 per cent of the junior colleges of the country even received the necessary preliminary approval of the Joint Committee for the Selection of Non-Federal Institutions,' as contrasted with the

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